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Mass transit systems are not designed to take every person from exactly where they are to exactly where they want to go. They are designed to take existing, heavily traveled, travel routes. Also taken into consideration is the likelihood of the people on that route to abandon their cars for mass transit (for example, while you might see a lot of traffic between Beverly Hills and Century City, I doubt there are a lot of people giving up their Mercedes and BMWs to hop on a bus).
Also, newer, outlying areas are usually not the first to be served by mass transit.
Finally, route schedules are based on demand. For example, the OCTA recently opened a new bus line between Brea and Irvine (they even put a door hanger on my house in Brea to let me know about it). However, the line only runs during "peek" hours. Since I tend to (well, almost always) work late, it wasn't an option for me as the last departure from the location that I would use was around 5:30.
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