How Safe is the LA Metro B Line, Really?

Join me as I take a deep dive into the LA Metro system to evaluate its safety and overall experience. From the B and D lines to the new HR4000 subway cars, I explore everything from fare evasion and security measures to the efforts LA Metro is making to improve safety. With rising crime rates and new initiatives in place, how does the system really feel? Find out what I experienced firsthand and the solutions LA Metro is implementing to make transit safer for all. Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more!

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[Potato-sozr]

I wanted to mention that Metro will also be replacing their turnstile fare gates with taller door-like gates in several stations this year. The height will block people who try to jump over them. It’s the same ones from BART in San Francisco which have been proved to be successful.

[RallyingforRail]

As someone working on a similar video but for NYC, I can say that American cities are grappling with similar issues in their subway systems. Many of these issues definitely exist in NYC (where I live), and many of these issues also exist in Chicago and DC from what I’ve read. Some of these issues (like homelessness and mental health issues) may be microcosms of larger societal ills (particularly around inadequate social safety nets), but I wonder if it would benefit these transit systems to collaborate and look to each other for best practices.

[justkallmekai]

I like to watch people ride LA Metro for the first time and I couldn't believe that they saw some crazy stuff on their first time on. I hail from the same area as you so I don't get to ride Metro every day but whenever I can, I do. I've yet to really run into anything crazy happening on my trains. Even the infamous B and D lines. Only time in recent memory that was a strange situation was a man spread across the walking aisle asleep and I had to step over him. That was the last A line train going eastbound. Though he didn't do anything and the ride an uneventful. Sucks to see that people are scared to ride it but I do understand, it's an overall much sketchier experience than say, Metrolink.

[SoCalTransitRider]

As someone who has commuted to/from Hollywood on the Metro Red Line and used it to get to dance classes in the SFV, it is okay in the AM but night especially after 7pm is very sketchy. I would see all the crazies after work on board.

I've dealt with sketchy people from having a cup of alcohol thrown at me by a crazy crackhead and almost punching another crackhead for messing with an elderly lady several months later.

While I do miss working in Hollywood, I do not miss dealing with the Red Line

[mrxman]

So you had a safe trip. It was safe to ride the B line. That's been my experience.

BTW, the LA Metro originally had its own security force when it first opened in 1990. It was only several years later that they switched to LAPD, LASD, and LBPD. I'm very glad they are switching back.

LA Metro is also installing new tall fare gates like the new ones used on BART. But LA Metro needs to install those gates on the stations that only have validators. They're a leftover from the time that the entire metro was on the honor system. That's correct. Originally, neither the LRT or subway stations had fare gates.

The cleanliness, security, and frequencies have all noticeably improved over the last 2 years. It's a big reason why ridership has also improved during that same time period.

[akirawong]

I ride in on the Metrolink from OC on occasion and take the red or purple line into DTLA. I almost got assaulted randomly on the Metro Purple Line by an aggressive guy hopped up on something at around 9 am. I feel for people who commute regularly on these lines, don't let your guard down at anytime of the day. I see the increased amount of patrol in the stations, but they can't be on every train and platform. I'll go back to sitting in gridlock traffic.

[MrWaffles_YT]

rode it today it was extremely quiet but there was security or la metro members in each car but the smell is so off idk why

[nuclearcockatiels]

IMO the A line going down to Long Beach is very sketchy

[Majinsome]

I always try to just not bother anyone and be respectful though I know that’s not enough to prevent all altercations.

[salvadortorres]

How does that Metrolink ticket transfer work? I tried it once a little after COVID and it didn’t work

[rotorookie-]

Rode it in May 2024, 10:00am on a Sunday. Del Mar to the city. Was actually excited.
On entering the carriage it was full of druggies and sheltering homeless people, somebody was having a psychotic event at the far end, out of their mind screaming. It was terrifying.
Every station in the city had police on the station and at the entrances. I wanted to poke my head out of the door at the stations and say "guys the issues are in here, not out there" but frankly I think they didn't give sh1t, just happy collecting overtime.

Public transport shouldn't feel like this (and isn't like this in other 1st world countries) I won't ride LA Metro until reports of improvement come through.

[lewism]

Last time I took the red line (I'll always call it the red line) three guys were fighting and one got pushed onto the tracks. Fortunately no train was coming. No security, the uniformed officers no longer ride. It's filled with drug addicts and homeless people. I asked one woman with a green vest (a safety ambassador) at one of the stations whether there was any security on the trains. Not much, sorry, was her reply.

[Ac_a]

Rode the🅱️Line few days ago(weekday) twice midday. Pretty safe, plenty of security. A few odd city folk. Nothing too bad.