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ChineseL.A. Coliseum By Metro
Contributed by Fred Camino on March 28th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
For this special edition of Transit Oriented Weekend we bring you transit directions to the historical L.A. Coliseum for the Dodgers vs. Red Sox game where over 115,000 fans will be congregating in what’s sure to be a fantastic mess if you are in a car. This is why mass transit was invented.
The above Google Map shows the various bus lines that serve the L.A. Coliseum with links to the timetables from the Metro website. Remember to look at the Saturday schedule on the timetable. Used in conjunction with the Metro Advanced Trip Planner you should be able to find your way to the Coliseum without a car, no problemo.
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I’d say that the best way is probably just to walk it from the 37th St Harbor Transitway station. Cause all the surface streets are gonna be clogged to hell whether you’re in a bus or a car.
Or ride a bike!
Go Sox! =)
The Militant will be going Metro on Rapid line 754. He could bike but the possibility of participating in Dodger chants on the bus ride back to the compound is too good to pass up.
Nice Militant! Have fun! But don’t you mean “The Militant may or may not be going Metro on Rapid line 754″???
I have been to the Coliseum before. Last time I was there Chivas (Mexico) played a friendly against Barcelona (Spain) and it was really chaotic. I agree with both Ray and Fred. The best options are biking it or going walking from the transitway station. Any bus in the area is going to be extremely slow. Especially Vermont.
Imagine, in 2 years..the Expo Line to the Coliseum! That’ll get the Dodger fans re-thinking mass transit when Expo opens.
Game just finished. Too bad we lost. I wasn’t able to go. Just curious, what did members of Metrorider choose as their transit routes and what was their experience?
The Militant is back from the game. He may or may have not gotten back to the compound in 53 minutes.
I was there with my $10 standing room ticket. My route from the north San Fernando Valley was to drive to the Van Nuys Orange Line station (skipped 233/761 for this time), Metro Red Line to Vermont/Beverly, Metro Rapid 754 to Exposition. On the way back, which was around 10:30pm, it was Metro Local 204 at MLK and Vermont near-side stop, but I noticed a lot more people waiting at the Rapid far-side stop; I don’t think they realized Rapid service was done for the day. However, I noticed a Metro Rapid 60BRT on MLK going westbound before Vermont with the headsign “600 SPECIAL”; anyone know what that is for? Oh, the 204 got packed at the MLK stop and had to skip the Expo stop where more people were waiting. I have to say, there was a good showing of transit riding baseball fans, even BoSox fans use the Rapid! Transitwise, everything went smoothly and it shows that Metro, and along with the Dodger Stadium shuttle, really makes getting in and out of games much easier; instead of piping family vehicles into a game with no other mass alternative (yes, coach bus shuttles helps too, it doesn’t have to be Metro).
Actually, the Dodger Stadium shuttle was a disaster. My friends drove to the game and we drove up to Dodger Stadium, saw the chaos and the number of shuttle vans (they were using Econolines and hotel shuttles with the very rare RTS or tour bus coming down), and then drove over to Union Station to park there for $6. I got to Union Station at about 5:15 and waited about 20 minutes for a 740 to come down, which was standing room only when it took off, and ran essentially as an express to the Coliseum, skipping all of the stops where folks were waiting down the line. The way back I noticed the long line for the Stadium shuttle had wrapped itself around in a U shape, but we ended up hitching a ride from some other friends who had parked a couple of blocks north of USC. The problem was that a lot of people didn’t know that the the regular 40 went to Union Station just as well, so I had to remind them that they needed to take the 40 back since the 740 stopped running after 8 o’clock. Although if we hadn’t seen them, we would probably take the 81 or 40 up. I noticed the 81 was standing room only, and was unsure how service operating every half hour or hourly would do handling the crowd coming out of the game.
I feel bad for some of the people that rarely use the system and try it on big event days such as the game, where theres is almost nonexistent information for them. They are almost left to figure out things for their own because Los Ángeles being the city that it is sometimes makes people nervous about asking direction to people they don’t know. I took a ride yesterday to the City Walk and on my way back saw a throng of people on the Red Line en route to the game. I also got to witness a lot of confused people and some even getting off at wrong stations while the rest of their party look through the doors and windows unable to do anything to help. As previously stated by other members, other cities (San Diego, San Francisco) offer detailed information for people that might happen to use public transit whereas here people are told they have options but that’s about it. They are not explained in detail about those options.
i heard on npr this morning that the dodger shuttle was a complete travesty and a great deal of fans didn’t get to the game til after the 7th inning. dodger shuttle drivers must have got all confused, in that most dodger fans want to leave by the 7th inning not arrive. arriving is for the 3rd inning guys, doi.
I mentioned in the “Think Blue, Think Metro… Sort Of” post that I’d be taking the Dodger Stadium shuttle. Well, I came to my senses and parked at Union Station along with my friends. Hopped on the Red Line, transferred to the 81, and took it to the Coliseum. Bus was packed with Dodgers and Sox fans, and the driver was awesome, cracking jokes to the Sox fans and (poorly) impersonating Vin Scully, but it was all in good fun. By the time my friends and I left, it was the top of the 8th, and the 81 was running every hour, so we took the 200 to MacArthur Park Station and hopped on the Red Line back. Never again will I be dumb enough to not take Metro when the options are there.
Alan, how was the 200 going back?
That is it, I’m done with the Coliseum until the Expo line is built. I took the red line to the 754 and it was still a mess. And on the way back the 754 stop running at 8 p.m. So we (party of
took the 204 and were packed like, well it would have been nice to be like sardines. This would have been a great opportunity for the MTA to step it up and “imagine” a couple of them long buses from the Wilshire Vermont station to the Coliseum. But no, it is too hard for the MTA to do anything outside the box. Saturday would have been a great promoting opportunity to attract new riders, if the extra buses would have been provided by the MTA. “Imagine” a transit agency that accommodates its riders?
Okay, now that I took a breath, I have realized that it will be a while before that many people go to the Coliseum again.
[...] Militant HQ was 53-minutes. Other MetroRider readers offered their experiences in the comments of this post. The consensus seems to be that the Dodgers Shuttles were unequivocally a disaster and that Metro, [...]
Except the Dodgers advertised Metro service, and promoted it in their press releases. The service going to the game seemed to be adequate. Leaving the game was another story. The one truth is that Metro has severely cut back on special services. The old racetrack expresses were cancelled several years ago and that was the last special game-time service they had.
rogedog92: The 200 was packed, but not crushload packed. Most of the poeple who were on it asked the driver if it connected to a rail line, and once he told them it connected to the Red / Purple Line, they got on. I’d say about 2/3 of the load got off at MacArthur Park.
I think I’ll stick to taking Amtrak/Metrolink to Angels games. A better team anyway !