How to Ride the LA Metro! | Live Footage & Tips Video

In this video, I show you how to ride the Los Angeles Metro! This is my first time taking the LA Metro to travel from Hollywood to DTLA, so I'll share my tips and observations compared to the Washington, DC Metro. Ask me your questions about LA Public Transportation!

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[LARailProductions]

Don't TAP to exit. If you are using stored value on your TAP card you'll end up wasting another $1.75.

[HydraRealms]

As someone who has been using the LA metro system for the past 13 years it's really interesting watching someone for the first time explore Los Angeles

[chromebomb]

LA is so big that adding a bike makes it easy to solve the "last mile" problem . Unfortunately our Metro is very small and ridership is low so we dont have a good transit culture here

[juless]

you don’t need to use your tap card to exit as long as it’s green you’re good to go

[alexmunch]

Great video!! Remember that you dont have to use the tap card to exit the station...Only to enter....And there are several train lines that will take you to many parts of the city...The metro is expanding quickly there will be more options...Thanks again for taking the time to post this great video and God bless you

[gmatar]

fromPasaden to Hollywood and from Hollywood to Downtown. what a great ride. LOVE LA.

[VincentPaterno-hsfv]

I lived in the D.C. area for many years (go Nats!) before moving to L.A., and agree the Metro here is far more spartan than its Washington counterpart. While Los Angeles once had an outstanding train system - the Pacific Electric ("Red Cars") serving as inter-urbans and the Los Angeles Railway ("yellow cars") for shorter rides within the city, all those died out by the early '60s and it wasn't until 1990 that Metro began here with the Blue or now "A" light-rail line between downtown (7th Street) and Long Beach. It's grown in spurts since then, just as D.C.'s Metrorail, opened in 1976, reached its full original length in 2001. The good news is that several new lines are opening in the next few years, with hopes all will be ready by the 2028 Olympics. A "downtown connector" will link several light-rail lines, providing a one-seat ride from Santa Monica to East L.A., and from Long Beach to Azusa. Building a mass transit culture in an area long dependent on the automobile is a challenge... but at least unlike Washington, the fares are flat, so you don't have to compute riding from College Park (go Terps!) to Dulles Airport..

[ninisdiaries]

Is there’s any subway lines a tourist should avoid? I’m seeing a lot of unsafe activities and I’m unsure if I should Uber or take the metro!

[WalkingMario]

Thanks for sharing i have never ride the metro..

[mreddiebjones]

Great and helpful video! Thank you!
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[Tanknuggets]

Hey, I just want to thank you because i'm from NorCal and we have BART! The LA Metro has so many lines compared to BART😅

[HSDreamsprint]

So... how is it now? I'll be visiting for a day in August. Is the ridership still low? Do the subways have public bathrooms?

[MRSTEEL]

Why don't you just buy the Metro ALL DAY pass for $5.50? This way you don't have to keep loading the card

[Justaddsaltt]

If you have a iPhone u can now skip the machine and have the tap card on your phone

[danielleporter]

About Metro 🚇 security, the LASD ( Sheriff's dept) has a division that is over security of metro trains and buses and some could have very well have been in the station or on the platform (s)/ train(s) but just in plain clothes. I know having been a frequent bus rider over the years, there are signs that say you never know who your fellow riders might be, denoting that a plain clothes Sheriff's deputy might be sitting next to you or a few may be sprinkled in and around the stations, trains and buses and bus transit centers.

[HotDogLaws]

I've been riding metro buses and trains my whole life and its been extremely sad to see how severely service and maintenance have degraded since 2020, its a night and day difference even from 2019

[jennifertarin]

Do you pay when you enter like NYC or when you exit like DC? IN DC, you have to tap to both enter and exit, but only pay when you exit. In NYC, you only swipe to enter.

[seancully]

Hi, you don't need to tap your card when you exit.

[Alexandr]

Thanks for your video. One Russian guy was wondering what kind of subway in Los Angeles. Hello from Moscow.

[no_soy_rubio]

Thanks for sharing, I'm visiting next week from the UK and hoping to get around just using public transportation, the metro looks basic but not too bad