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LADOT
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation, commonly referred to as LADOT, is a municipal agency that oversees transportation planning, design, construction, maintenance and operations within the city of Los Angeles. LADOT was created by city ordinance, and is run by a general manager appointed by the Mayor of Los Angeles, under the oversight of a citizens' commission also appointed by the mayor. LADOT is best known for providing public transportation to the City of Los Angeles. It currently operates the second-largest fleet in Los Angeles County next to Metro. It consist of over 300 vehicles, serving nearly 30 million passengers a year and operating over 800,000 hours. LADOT also develops the traffic signal timing and transportation planning for the city. Actual road maintenance and construction is provided by the Los Angeles City Department of Public Works through StreetsLA, formerly the Bureau of Street Services, and the Bureau of Engineering. LADOT performs many transportat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Station (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Union Station is the main railroad station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States. It opened in May 1939 as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, replacing La Grande Station, Central Station, and Salt Lake Station. Approved in a controversial ballot measure in 1926 and built in the 1930s, it served to consolidate rail services from the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, and Union Pacific railroads into one terminal station. Conceived on a grand scale, Union Station became known as the "Last of the Great Railway Stations" built in the United States. The structure combines Art Deco, Mission Revival, and Streamline Moderne style. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Today, the station is a major transportation hub for Southern California, serving almost 110,000 passengers a day. It is by far the busiest railroad station in the Western United States; it is Amtrak's fifth-busiest s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinatown Station (Los Angeles Metro)
Chinatown station is an elevated light rail station on the of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located along Spring Street (Los Angeles), Spring Street above College Street in the Chinatown, Los Angeles, Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, just north of Downtown Los Angeles. This station opened on July 26, 2003, as part of the original L Line (Los Angeles Metro), Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project. The Chinatown station is a short walk from Broadway (Los Angeles), North Broadway, a bustling street of Chinese-American restaurants and stores. Broadway is accessible through a flat walkway between the North Mezzanine and Blossom Plaza, which is lined with businesses and apartment buildings. Service Hours and frequency Connections , the following connections are available: * City of Santa Clarita Transit: City of Santa Clarita Transit#794, 794, City of Santa Clarita Transit#799, 799 * LADOT Commuter Express: , * LADOT DASH: B, Linco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expo Park/USC Station
Expo Park/USC station is an at-grade light rail station on the E Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located in the center median of Exposition Boulevard near entrances to Exposition Park (Expo Park) and the University of Southern California (USC), after which the station is named. The 37th Street/USC station for the J Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system is located a few blocks east of the station. The station is located close to several major museums and sporting venues including BMO Stadium, the California Science Center and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from venues inside Expo Park including opening/closing ceremonies along with track and field events at the Coliseum and football (soccer) matches at BMO Stadium. History Pacific Electric stop Originally a stop on the Los Angeles and Independence and Pacific Electric railroads, it closed on September 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of the city of Los Angeles. It is part of the Central Los Angeles region and covers a area. As of 2020, it contains over 500,000 jobs and has a population of roughly 85,000 residents, with an estimated daytime population of over 200,000 people prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Downtown Los Angeles is divided into neighborhoods and districts, some overlapping. Most districts are named for the activities concentrated there now or historically, such as the Arts District, Los Angeles, Arts, Los Angeles Fashion District, Fashion, Old Bank District, Los Angeles, Banking, Broadway Theater District (Los Angeles), Theater, Toy District, Los Angeles, Toy, and Jewelry District (Los Angeles), Jewelry Districts. It is the hub for the city's Los Angeles Metro Rail, urban rail transit system, as well as the Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink (California), Metrolink commuter rail system covering greater Southern California. Also located i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA), branded as Metro, is the county agency that plans, operates, and coordinates funding for most of the Transportation in Los Angeles, public transportation system in Los Angeles County, California, the most populated county in the United States. The agency directly operates a large Public transport, transit system that includes Public transport bus service, bus, light rail, Rapid transit, heavy rail (subway), and bus rapid transit services. Metro also provides funding for transit it does not operate, including Metrolink (California), Metrolink commuter rail, List of Southern California transit agencies, municipal bus operators and paratransit services. The agency also provides funding and directs planning for railroad and highway projects within Los Angeles County. In , the Metro system had a total ridership of , and had a ridership of per weekday as of . It is the largest transit agency by ridership in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expo/Vermont Station
Expo/Vermont station is an at-grade light rail station on the E Line (Los Angeles Metro), E Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located in the center median of Exposition Boulevard at its intersection with Vermont Avenue, after which the station is named, near the Exposition Park, Los Angeles, Exposition Park and West Adams, Los Angeles, West Adams neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The station is located close to the University of Southern California (USC), and several major museums and sporting venues inside Exposition Park (Los Angeles), Exposition Park. During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from the temporary swimming venue to be built inside Dedeaux Field, a baseball stadium on the USC campus. The station will be a transfer point to the Vermont Transit Corridor, a Los Angeles Metro Busway line scheduled to open just before the 2028 Summer Olympics. History The site was originally a junction of the Los Angele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand/LATTC Station
Grand/LATTC station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located in the median of Washington Boulevard at its intersection with Grand Avenue, after which the station is named, along with Los Angeles Trade–Technical College (LATTC). One of the station's exits leads directly to the LATTC campus. The station also has nearby stops for the J Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system, southbound buses stop at the intersection of Flower Street and Washington Boulevard, one block to the west of the station, and northbound buses stop at the intersection of Figueroa Street and Washington Boulevard, two blocks to the west. In addition to the LATTC campus, the station also serves the South Los Angeles neighborhood. Service Hours and frequency Connections , the following connections are available: * LADOT DASH: D, Pico Union/Echo Park * Los Angeles Metro Bus: , , , , , Notable places nearby The st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsaouras Transit Plaza
Patsaouras Transit Plaza is a bus station on the east side of Union Station (Los Angeles), Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles, near the El Monte Busway. It was originally named the Gateway Transit Plaza but was renamed after Nick Patsaouras, former Rapid Transit District board member who was an advocate for public transportation. The Metro Headquarters Building is located at the northern end of the plaza. Services Metro and municipal buses * Los Angeles Metro Bus * Antelope Valley Transit Authority * City of Commerce Transit * City of Santa Clarita Transit * Foothill Transit * Hollywood Bowl shuttle * LADOT Commuter Express * LADOT DASH * Mount St. Mary's College shuttles * University of Southern California shuttles Several other services' bus stops are located in or near the Patsaouras Transit Plaza: * Big Blue Bus (Santa Monica) * Greyhound Lines * J Line (Los Angeles Metro), J Line * Silver Streak (bus), Silver Streak * Torrance Transit LAX FlyAway FlyAway (bus), LAX ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood/Vine Station
Hollywood/Vine station is an underground rapid transit (known locally as a subway) station on the B Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located below the iconic Hollywood and Vine intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, after which the station is named, in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. The central station of the three subway stops in Hollywood, within walking distance of many important Hollywood landmarks including the Capitol Records Building, CBS Columbia Square, The Fonda Theatre, Hollywood Palladium and Pantages Theatre. The station is also below the Hollywood Walk of Fame and close to the Gower Gulch. History Hollywood/Vine opened on June 12, 1999, as the western terminus of the northern branch of the Red Line. Upon the opening of the westward extension to North Hollywood in 2000, it lost its title as the end of the line. Transit-oriented development In accordance with Metro's initiatives to spur transit-oriented development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westlake/MacArthur Park Station
Westlake/MacArthur Park station is an underground rapid transit, known locally as a subway, station on the B Line and D Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located near the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Alvarado Street in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Westlake, after which the station is named, along with MacArthur Park, which is located across the street. Unlike most of Metro's other underground stations, which are built directly under a street, the Westlake/MacArthur Park platform is located south of Wilshire Boulevard and between 7th Street. This design allowed a train storage area to be built under MacArthur Park, and necessitated draining the lake for several years to excavate and build the tracks. Westlake/MacArthur Park is one of L.A's five original subway stations: when it opened in 1993, it was the western terminus of the Red Line, before completion of the Wilshire/Western branch (now called the D Line) in 1996 and the North Hollywoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
