Times in gray are the scheduled times, while colored ones are synced up with the actual location of the bus/train. Note that while smaller transit agencies are included in Transit, they don’t always provide real-time arrival info, and sometimes even Metro real-time info won’t show up. It has a very clean interface and the “Go” function is really good at giving you step-by-step instructions during your trip, while broadcasting the location of your bus or train while you’re on it for the benefit of others using the app. The Transit appĪnother good trip planner is the Transit app, which you can use to plan ahead, though we prefer using it for real-time arrival info while actually out and about. Sometimes, you’ll find that there’s no good way to get within walking distance of your destination, but you can often at least get relatively close and then resort to an Uber or Lyft (or Metro Micro, if you’re lucky enough to be in one of their zones) for the rest of the way, to save yourself a lot of money.Īnd make sure to plan out your return trip too! Transit service is much more limited in the evening and on the weekend, so you need to make sure you can get home, too. However, given how frequently schedules have been changing during the pandemic, you should double check the schedules on the websites for the transit agencies themselves to make sure that the trip Google Maps spits out is actually feasible. Google Maps is good for planning ahead (just click the train icon when looking up directions), and has pretty solid info on all the various transit agencies in the Los Angeles area. There’s a lot of trip planners out there, but there’s two in particular we prefer using. Metrolink uses big trains, more akin to Amtrak, and doesn’t accept transit passes or transit cards instead, you have to buy tickets from machines at each station or on their app (although if you do ride Metrolink, you can use your ticket to transfer to just about any local transit system it connects to, including Metro). Nevertheless, a couple of these smaller systems worth mentioning are DASH, a system of neighborhood shuttles run by the City of Los Angeles (particularly in Downtown LA) Big Blue Bus around Santa Monica Long Beach Transit in Long Beach and surrounding communities and Foothill Transit in the San Gabriel Valley.Īlso, if you’re in Union Station (the big train/bus station near Downtown), it’s worth knowing the difference between Metro and Metrolink, which is a commuter rail system with lines going out to the more far-flung parts of the region, like San Bernardino, Riverside, Lancaster, and Orange County. All of them are covered in the same travel planning tools and even accept the same transit card as Metro (which we’ll cover below).
There are far too many to list here, but fortunately you don’t really need to know them all. These are meant to serve more local transit needs that aren’t met by the regional system.
It encompasses a rail system and a vast bus network that covers most of the city and a lot of the suburbs around Los Angeles County.Ĭrucially, however, there are a lot of other, smaller transit systems around the county, with almost every prominent municipality having its own small bus network. The main transit system serving Los Angeles is Metro, which is the one we usually use in these guides.
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