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Go Expo to Everychild Playground Play Day

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Looking for a way to celebrate the opening of Expo? Take advantage of the free rides on April 28 and head to the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital’s Everychild Playground, located right in front of Expo Line’s 23rd Street Station. Saturday is the Everychild Playground Play Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free.

The Play Day will include integrated play, face painting, arts and crafts, entertainment and treats. Children can enjoy playing on accessible equipment that accommodates children with physical or developmental disabilities. The space contains picnic tables and families are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch.

In addition, LAOH’s partner the Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School is also hosting a free event. The high school, located next door to the hospital, will be the site of the Ferrari Club of America-Southwest Region’s Exotic Car Show. The free event celebrates LAOH’s 100-year anniversary and runs from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. It will have amazing and exotic Ferrari and Lotus sports cars, plus famous motion picture automobiles, on display.

Beyond phase one: making connections to the Expo Line

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Though it looks a ways away, Century City will be only one bus connection away from the Expo Line. Photo by Carter Rubin/Metro.

Phase One of the Expo Line will soon put transit riding Angelenos within walking distance of a slew of destinations previously not served by Metro Rail: USC, Exposition Park, Mid City and Culver City, among others.

But many transit trips don’t begin and end by walking to and from the same line; we often depend on making connections to other modes of travel — buses, bikes or a ride from a friend.

The Expo Line is rich in those connections too. This post will highlight some of connecting bus lines, many of which you already know, and hopefully some that are new to you.

Before we start, it’s worth noting that Metro’s Trip Planner, Google’s Transit Directions and Metro’s smartphone app are easy and reliable tools for planning your next transit trip — use them!

First we’re going to break it down by transit agency and the lines they offer, with an eye to describing how to get to a couple major destinations that are reachable via one transfer from the Expo Line.

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Expo Line timetable is here!

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The timetable for the Expo Line that goes into effect with revenue service beginning next Monday is below. It can be downloaded from the Metro website here [pdf].

With the Farmdale station not yet complete, the Expo Line has a run time of 26 minutes between 7th/Metro Center in downtown Los Angeles and the La Cienega/Jefferson station. The Farmdale and Culver City stations are expected to open this summer.

The Expo Line is offering free rides to the public from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday; details here with info on opening weekend events from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at some stations. The regular schedule begins Monday. Also, here’s a photo history of the Expo Line we posted earlier today.

Expo Line Timetable

Go Metro to CicLAvia!

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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will implement many bus line detours and provide longer trains in support of CicLAvia this Sunday, April 15.

The fourth official CicLAvia event in the Downtown L.A. area is designed to celebrate car-free enjoyment of public spaces for pedestrians, bicyclists, joggers, skateboarders and others and will take place Sunday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Street closures will impact Metro Bus routes beginning 9 a.m. until approximately 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon.  Metro bus lines impacted by the CicLAvia route are:  Metro Line 2, 4, 10, 14, 16, 18, 20, 26, 28, 30, 33, 37, 40, 42, 48, 51, 52, 53, 55, 60, 62, 68, 81, 83, 84 , 90, 91, 92, 94, 460, 487, 603, 720, 733, 760 and Metro Silver Line.  Metro patrons should anticipate bus detours and delays to service, as well as the temporary relocation of bus stops along the route.  Temporary stops will be located as near to original stops as possible.

The public can more easily attend the event via 14 Metro Rail stations on or near the event route.  Metro Red/Purple Line stations at Civic Center, Pershing Square, 7th St./Metro Center, Westlake/MacArthur Park and Wilshire/Vermont are on or within three blocks of the route.  On Vermont Avenue, the Metro Red Line Station at Beverly is one block east of the route, and Vermont/Santa Monica Station is less than three-fourths of a mile from the northern point of the route at Melrose and Heliotrope.   The Metro Gold Line Little Tokyo/Arts District Station is one block east of the route as it passes from Downtown L.A. to Hollenbeck Park in East Los Angeles and back.  The Pico-Aliso station is also near the route on 4th Street.   Both the Mariachi Plaza and Soto Metro Gold Line Stations also are within three blocks from Hollenbeck Park.

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Go Dodger Stadium Express to opening day

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Photo by kla4067, via Flickr creative commons

Here’s the news release:

Metro will again offer Dodger Stadium Express bus service from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles to Dodger Stadium throughout the regular 2012 baseball season under a grant approved by the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC).

The Dodgers opening day game against the Pittsburgh Pirates is Tuesday, April 10 beginning at 1:10 p.m.

“Once again, The Dodger Stadium Express comes through for fans,” said Metro Board Chairman and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. “Through a generous grant, the MSRC will allow ticketed fans to ride free from Union Station to Dodger Stadium with the purchase of a Dodgers game ticket.”

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Go Metro to live music: The All-American Rejects

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They’re back. After nearly burning themselves out on their run to the top of the charts the latter half of the previous decade, The All-American Rejects appear fully recovered and are back at it this Friday night (03/30) at The Troubadour. The band’s newest record, Kids In The Street, was released this Monday and is their first release since 2008’s When The World Comes Down.

 

“The All-American Rejects – Beekeeper’s Daughter”

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Popular Metrolink $7 Angels Express Train service returns for 2012 season

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Angels Stadium. Photo by Kwong Yee Cheng, via Flickr creative commons.

Here’s the news release from Metrolink:

New special service from downtown Riverside added this year, service from Los Angeles and Orange County to continue

LOS ANGELES – Metrolink and the Orange County Transportation Authority’s (OCTA) popular $7 round-trip Angels Express Train service is set to kick off again for the 2012 baseball season beginning April 2.

The Angels Express provides service to all weekday home games starting at 7:05 p.m. from Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo or L.A. Union Station to Angel Stadium of Anaheim. In addition, service is being introduced this season from Riverside-Downtown to the Anaheim Station (via transfer at the Orange Station) for all Friday Angels home games starting at 7:05 p.m.

Fans can enjoy the convenience of taking the train to the Angel Stadium of Anaheim parking lot without the hassle of sitting in traffic and paying up to $20 for parking. Last year more than 20,000 baseball fans took advantage of the safe, affordable and reliable transportation to games.

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Go Metro to Kathleen Edwards at the El Rey

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The Canadian singer and songwriter plays the El Rey tonight with the doors opening at 7 p.m. The tour is in support of her new album “Voyageur” that features collaborations with Bon Iver and came out to (as usual) good reviews last year. As of 10:50 a.m., tickets are still available.

Edwards has been called everything from a “folk rocker” to a songwriter focusing on themes of “Americana.” Like many songwriters of her type these days, she doesn’t get much airplay on the radio outside of alternative stations. I stumbled on her album “Failer” years ago and have been hooked since.

The El Rey is located in the Miracle Mile district of Wilshire Boulevard between Dunsmuir and Burnside, four blocks west of La Brea. Transit directions to the show are after the jump.

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Metro to offer Dodger Stadium Express for 2012 season

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Here is the news release from Metro:

Metro will again offer Dodger Stadium Express bus service from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles to Dodger Stadium beginning April 3 with the Dodgers pre-game series and throughout the regular 2012 baseball season under a grant approved by the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC).

“Once again, The Dodger Stadium Express comes through for fans,” said Metro Board Chairman and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. “Through a generous grant, the MSRC will allow ticketed fans to ride free from Union Station to Dodger Stadium with the purchase of a Dodgers game ticket.”

A grant of $300,000 awarded to Metro by the MSRC was made in support of clean fuel transit service to link Union Station to Dodger Stadium. The MSRC awards funding within the South Coast Air Basin from a portion of the vehicle registration fee set aside for mobile source projects that result in emission reductions.

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