LA NO CAR: L.A. by Metro Trains

Can you visit and enjoy Los Angeles without a car? YES! At one time in the early 20th Century, Los Angeles had the largest urban train transit system in the world. Then Los Angeles became the city of freeways, cars, suburbs, and smog. At the end of the 20th Century, Los Angeles citizens decided they had enough of the pollution and over-crowded roads and voted to build a mass train transit system. Today Los Angles Metro is the third largest system in miles in the US, the eighth largest in ridership in the US, and the largest light rail system in the US.What this means for visitors and residents is that a lot -- a whole lot of L.A. -- is accessible by public mass transit, including the fabulously revitalized Downtown L.A., Hollywood, and nearby cities such as Pasadena, Long Beach, and Santa Monica. And so very much in between. From the heights of the Hollywood Hills to the Pacific Ocean and the neighborhoods of Los Angeles, readers of LA NO CAR will find out that there is so much to do, see, eat, and enjoy that not even a few weeks is enough.For International visitors, using the L.A.Metro will be a familiar and less challenging way of getting around because not everyone is ready for L.A. traffic. Yes, many of the world's city traffic and driving is challenging, but not over such a wide expanse as L.A., where it is not so much the speed as it is the slow crawl that seems to happen day and night.LA NO CAR not only make sense of visiting L.A. with the Metro system, it also saves money. L.A. Metro fares are more than reasonable, and with their TAP card system, riders have access to every other mass transit system in Los Angeles County, as well as their own expanding system of short term bicycle rentals.LA NO CAR is laid-out starting in Downtown and travels to Hollywood, North Hollywood, Highland Park, Pasadena, Long Beach and Santa Monica, all by using Metro subway, light rail, BRT, and DASH buses. Each Metro Station that is highlighted has places to visit, see, enjoy and, of course, eat and drink. (LA NO CAR confirms that L.A. is a foodie town.) Throughout LA NO CAR are QR Codes that help navigate the way from the stations and stops to featured locations, and almost all are under one mile/1.6 KM from the nearest Metro Station. Most are under a half a mile/.80 KM walk, and many are adjacent to the Metro Station.All of this proximity makes it possible to easily travel from Metro Station to Metro Station and at each stop find more than enough to enjoy. This is especially true in Downtown Los Angeles where Chinatown, Olvera Street, and Little Tokyo blend in with the Arts and Fashion Districts, as well as the cultural attractions of Bunker Hill to make a visit to Downtown a multi-day destination. All along the way is history, unexpected places, and the full flavor on one of the world's great cities.And of course, there is Hollywood where the subway has multiple stops, and most of the world famous attractions are just steps from the subway. That one of the major theme park attractions, Universal Studios Hollywood, has a subway stop steps from its free trolleys makes it easy to understand how LA NO CAR isn't some Hollywood fantasy. It is completely for real.

• | Author: M Huk, A Dd
• | Publisher: Cardinal Content
• | Publication Date: Jun 04, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 383 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1877912573
• | ISBN-13: 9781877912573