Now you can party past the departure of the midnight train

Hi everybody, So for starters, I must apologize for being MIA for so long. Lots of stuff: school's coming up, my attendance at the California chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-CA) conference (more on that)...

But for the time being: Zach Behrens, fellow Valley resident, just announced on LAist that Metro's Board of Directors voted unanimously to run Red Line subway trains until 3AM on Fridays and Saturdays as a pilot between early November and January 3rd.

Metro after dark.

Whoo!

Even if it isn't directly applicable to me, since I now live near hell (the 405), this Valley Girl at heart is excited since she recalls the one (1) time she went out with her Valley friends over to Tiki Ti's near Los Feliz/Silver Lake using the park'n'ride and the Red Line... fully knowing that she'd either have to leave with her friends at 11:30 or mooch a ride.

Now, if only we could figure out a way to maintain transit service through the Sunset Strip at night!

xoxo, S

Comments

[browne]

The 2 runs along Sunset all night, we should have a fieldtrip!!

Or a test?

It's 2am and you are drunk, you lost your atm card and the cab drivers don't take credit (you turned off the pull out cash option on your credit card, because you were doing it too much), that last man standing at the bar is not in any condition to drive you home so that offer of a ride does not count.

If you make it home alive you get a cash prize valued at 20 dollars.

[Sirinya]

Hey Browne!
The 2 bus is cool for Eastsiders (but not to us fools on the Westside). According to the 2 schedule (which if Metro is paying attention, requires like a PhD plus more bus savvy than I have, to plow through), there is very limited service through the Sunset Strip area on further west to Westwood and beyond.
http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/bus_overview/images/002-302.pdf

Is this really true? I don't know; I never tried it.

Example:
Say it's Friday, I'm in WeHo and I want to go home at 2ish. The bus sched is unclear where I can catch the bus after Sunset/Vermont, and it doesn't matter since the last 2 bus flies past Sunset and Fairfax at 2:07 AM and ends at Santa Monica/San Vicente, which is nowhere near my house.
The late-owl service on the 2 bus directs everyone down Fairfax to the WLA Transit service. It never makes it to WeHo.

[browne]

I forgot you are my westsider...lol...my frame of reference is always where I am from...well my experience on the @ going to the Westside from Hollywood most recently were two book signings. The authors Mick Farren and Will Beall.

Both where at Book Soup, now that may not be far enough down. I view that is the Westside, but the two ran pretty well.

I have also gone to several events at the Hammer and coming home was relatively easy on a Weekday around 11ishpm....but I know 11pm can be the cut off between great service and where the fuck are you service...

We need to go on a fact finding mission, complete with alcohol and cancer inducing cigarettes.

[J]

The #4 bus is a short 1/2 mile walk away from Sunset and it operates all night and with buses running every 20-30 minutes.

[BusTard]

The 2 ain't what it usta be when the 1 and 3 complemented it. (And I am reminded of the 1 up the west side from the Ferry in Manhattan—it too no longer exists.) But it will do, as I shall see when I again the Getty Villa on PCH.
Last time, the Getty was grimey, the 2 (or 1, or 3—I do not recall as it were before 2001) took nearly four hours and the world of art mattered.