Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA)
Los Angeles Metro
LA Metro
The primary agency for public transportation within Los Angeles County.
You’ve got cheap or you’ve got easy. Unfortunately, you don’t get both options when it comes to getting from Los Angeles International airport to downtown Los Angeles. Driving. The easiest is driving. Get your friend to pick you up. Otherwise you are going to pay for it: Taxi Cab: There is flat-fare $46.50 to Downtown Los […]
You’ve seen the freeway signs: Express Lanes are LA Metro’s idea to make money off plain-old HOV lanes¹. This is tricky to explain because in order to sell this idea to the public it became a very confusing government program. A little History What were once purely HOV lanes (High Occupancy Vehicles) on the 110 and 10 […]
Every day thousands come to visit Disney’s Anaheim Resorts, from Disney’s California Adventure, to the Disney Grand Californian Hotel, to the O.G. Disneyland. Disney does not offer complimentary airport shuttles to the Disneyland Anaheim resort area (apparently this is different than Florida’s Disney World). You don’t need to rent a car, though, if you’re going to be […]
LA Metro TAP Cards are confusing. They are like if the Government decided to design a gift card/credit card combo. It’d be the LA Metro TAP Cards. Let’s dive into the secret world of LA Metro TAP Cards…. Rule #1. Don’t throw your TAP Card away. It stays valid for years as a ‘wallet’ for […]