Editing Los Angeles (section)

=== Getting Around ===

==== Public Transit (Bus/Subway System) ====
Public transportation in Los Angeles is a bit hard to figure out since each district has its own bus system. [http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/default.htm Metro] is the main system for downtown Los Angeles but reaches out into the surrounding neighborhoods. On the Metro website, you can [http://socaltransport.org/tm_pub_start.php search for public transit routes] by entering your current location (i.e main intersection) and your destination. There is a limited subway and light rail system as part of the [http://www.urbanrail.net/am/lsan/los-angeles.htm mass transit options], but most of the Los Angeles area is served by bus service. 

Bus drivers do not carry change, so you should have the [http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/riders_guide/paying_fare.htm exact cash fare] when you board; exact fare payments will not get you the free transfers, however. Like many other large transit systems in the USA, Metro has now instituted a plastic "TAP" card requirement, they cost a dollar and can easily be purchased at any subway stop, the airport and a few other places [https://www.taptogo.net/TAPLocator2 including vendors] A day pass currently [https://www.metro.net/riding/fares/ costs] $7, a seven day pass is $25 and if you are staying long enough, monthly passes run $100. Discounts are available for students, etc.

==== Regional Passenger Train ====

[http://www.metrolinktrains.com/home/ Metro Link] is the regional passenger connection system, a train system connecting Los Angeles with adjacent counties which goes as far south as San Diego County, as far east as San Bernadino and Riverside Counties and as far north as Ventura County. A central hub is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Los_Angeles) Union Station] and major destinations it would connect you to include Anaheim (Disneyland), San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente in Orange County, just north of the San Diego county line, the Burbank-Bob Hope Airport and the Irvine-John Wayne Airport

==== Union Station ====

Union Station is an architecturally significant building that was place of the national historic registrar in 1980, and is featured in a number of films, music videos and television productions, and even the video game, Grand Theft Auto.

In addition to MetroLink, Union Station is also a central hub for the Metro subway system, and a number of Metro and regional connector bus systems, as well as [http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=am%2Fam2Station%2FStation_Page&code=LAX Amtrak] for passenger train service to other parts of the USA. Amtrak has service up the west coast to Seattle, and east, to the upper mid-west, Chicago, and the south-east, New Orleans.

The [http://us.megabus.com/ MegaBus] express bus passenger network also currently boards and drop off passengers at the Patsaouras Plaza Bus Bay locations (at street level) with service from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Sacramento in California, as well as to and from Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada.