UPDATE, Mon, Oct. 28: If the Series returns to L.A. for Games 6 and 7, the Dodger Stadium Express will be running. Please check back for start times. And, yes, we’re hoping the Dodgers can polish off the Yanks in Gotham! 🙂
The Dodgers and Yankees are meeting for the 12th time in the World Series and the first time since 1981 when the Dodgers were triumphant. In ’63, the Dodgers swept Gotham and clinched the Series at a sunny (and new) Dodger Stadium — see below!
So start spreading the news: We’re excited to provide Dodger Stadium Express service to one of sport’s great rivalries on baseball’s biggest stage.
Our Dodger Stadium Express bus will be rolling from the South Bay and Union Station for Games 1 and 2 this Friday and Saturday. Service begins at 2:08 p.m. for both games.
The bus is a great way to avoid traffic and parking hassles. Another incentive to ride: USC has a home game at the Coliseum on Friday night and the Lakers are at home at Crypto.com arena in downtown L.A. There will be more than a few cars on the 110 freeway and adjacent roads.
Here’s the info you know to ride:
Union Station
- Union Station service will operate out of Patsaouras Plaza, Bus Bay 9, on the east end of Union Station, i.e. the Vignes Street side.
- Service for the World Series starts 3 hours before game time — 2:08 p.m. for both Friday’s and Saturday’s games.
- At Dodger Stadium, buses will drop riders off behind center field and at the top deck. Service back to Union Station will pick up at the same stops after the game.
- There is parking at Union Station on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking is $8. If you want to park here, we highly recommend getting to Union Station as early as possible the garage fills up for big games.
- Union Station is easy to reach by Metro Rail — via the A, B or D Lines. You can also reach Union Station via the J Line bus, as well as local bus routes, Metrolink regional rail and Amtrak.
South Bay
- Board the Dodger Stadium Express at any of the following stations: Slauson, Manchester, Harbor Freeway, Rosecrans, or Harbor Gateway Transit Center (Bay 9).
- Buses will drop riders off behind right field. Service back to the South Bay will pick up at the same stop after the game.
- Free parking is available at Harbor Gateway, Rosecrans, Harbor Freeway, Manchester and Slauson stations on a first-come, first-served basis.
Metro J Line
- Fans can also take the J Line from Harbor Gateway Transit Center and other J Line Stations to Union Station to connect to the Dodger Stadium Express. The J line runs every 10 minutes on weekdays and every 15 minutes on weekends. Note, regular fares apply.
Planning your trip
- The Dodger Stadium Express is free to ride; regular fares apply on all other connecting bus and rail service. A regular one-way fare on Metro is $1.75.
- To plan your transit trip, use Google or Apple maps, the Transit or Moovit apps or the trip planner on metro.net.
- We encourage everyone to get to Union Station and the South Bay stations early — we appreciate everyone being patient and polite. We’ll do our best to quickly get everyone on a bus and moving to the ballpark!
- There will likely be waits for the bus after the games due to the big crowd and traffic. If you don’t want to wait, it is possible to walk to the A Line’s Chinatown Station. It’s 1.2 miles and downhill. Please be mindful this isn’t exactly a walk through the English countryside — but it is doable and some riders regularly do it. The video below shows the walk.
If there is a Game 6 or Game 7 (or both) we’ll update you next week with service information. Thank you in advance for riding and have a great time at the games and being part of sports history.
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When the RTD, Division 3 provided the service additional buses were provided as needled like all Special Services they provided. Will your contractor add buses if they are needed or will some passengers have to wait for the regularly scheduled buses to return to the stadium for a second or third outbound trip?
Are the Dodger Stadium Express busses painted to resemble trolleys? (I’m just a curious student of history.)
I’m fascinated by (maybe let’s call it ‘watching with aghast bemusement’) the multiple headlines I’ve been seeing about your Tik Tok video showing the walk to the Chinatown station. Maybe because I’m one of these transit-using weirdos from San Francisco, but don’t your transit-using patrons deserve better than this? Why can’t…I don’t know, maybe the mayor?…order MLB/Dodger Stadium to put down some K-rail and supplementary lighting plus attendants stopping traffic at crosswalks, maybe even coning off a lane in the neighborhood around Chinatown station to facilitate safe passage on foot?? Why is this being treated like a challenge only for the foolhardy rather than a real, workable option?
As usual, the social media commenters miss the point—no, this option won’t work for those who need accessibility. But the *entire point* is to free up the roads and buses as much as possible for those who need to get to/from the station and/or game on wheels.
That is an individual level issue. You have the “Anti’s” crowd on both sides that see the other as the enemy instead of acknowledging that both private vehicles and public transit both have their place in people’s everyday lives.