Transport - Metro Rail [Los Angeles] Review

Dark ages

1*

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The LA transport system, like many public transport systems in the US is absolutely flawed. I do not know where to begin. Miraculously the Metro does allow you to purchase passes for your Tap card online. Unfortunately, the passes sometimes don't work for up to 3 days... so if you want to get the bus down the road then you may need to plan 72 hours in advance if you're not buying on board. Secondly, we opted to purchase 1 day passes at the cost of $7 as we were informed, and later found out, that the arrival times of many buses are so unpredictable that you're better of covering yourself for the day rather than buying a one way pass where you may not make a simple journey within the time frame... Thirdly, the buses and train were not clean, nor did they seem safe at all. Despite having gates to metro stations, there were many homeless people on the platforms and boarding the trains, walking up and down asking for money. Both the trains and buses smelt awful as well. If LA wasn't so big then I probably would've just paid the price for Uber or Lyft, however I feel like you're forced to take public transport on a limited budget.

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