Site Seeing L.A. by Bus

This article comes from the Wall Street Journal. Have any of you taken a commuter train just for the ride? Some of these trips are quite scenic.

By STAN SESSER

Los Angeles -- The Getty Villa, perched on a bluff in the Pacific Palisades overlooking the ocean, has a cavernous parking garage for visitors to its Greek and Roman art collections. It also is easily accessible by bus from downtown Los Angeles—perfect for the daunting challenge I was about to undertake.

The Getty was my first stop on an unusual five-day odyssey. With the mantra these days to combat global warming by reducing our carbon footprint, I decided to tour what is probably the world's most car-dependent big city using only public transportation. Many car-addicted Angelenos don't realize that their city's public transit system is one of the nation's largest; it claims to be No. 3 in terms of passengers per day. My challenge would be to visit the city's wonderful but widely scattered tourist sites without ever getting into a vehicle that wasn't a bus or a train.

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Comments

bruceco

I know I plan to take the DC Metro and do a stop by stop review for the Backroads at some point in the future. Union Station is very cool, Ben's Chili Bowl is right across the street from a station. At some point I will work on that.

Thursday 01 October 2009, 09:47

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