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July 1, 2007
Make That a $5 Day Pass: Metro Rate Hikes Begin Today
Today is the day where Angelenos will take out their wallets and slap down a 5-dollar bill into the ticket machines for a day pass. It's like Los Angeles is a big city now -- it has high(ish) rates for public transportation.
One-way fares will remain the same at $1.25 but the Metro Day Pass went up from $3 to $5; the monthly pass increased $10 to $62; weekly passes are now $17, up $3; the semi-monthly pass is gone; and an EZ transit pass, which is good for use on Metro and the various municipal bus operators in Los Angeles County, went up $12 making the total $70.
4 trips at $1.25 is $5, so at that point, you should just buy a day pass to save on the hassle (it helps especially when you are at a subway station fidgeting with the ticket machine as you hear a train pull up and away). 14 trips a week makes the weekly pass worthy and 50 trips a month gives reason for the monthly pass (we say trips, but each boarding counts as one. So if you take the Orange to the Red, that's two right there and round trip would be 4.)
For the full list of fare structure changes, click here.
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it's bullshit if you ask me. Coming from another country I can see this as being another case of forcing people to "not have an alternative" in this case as to have an alternative transportation system other than a car. I can't believe people just sit there and take it. We STILL have to use a car to move in the US.
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Dear Guest,
In Los Angeles you do not need a car, contrary to popular belief. The alternative to having a car? Not having one. I've been doing it for three years and life is good. Not only is life good, but it's better than the year I did own a car in Los Angeles.
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"(it helps especially when you are at a subway station fidgeting with the ticket machine as you hear a train pull up and away)."
LOL, happens all the time. And not only that, the train that you hear leave is the one you're supposed to be on.
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if you believe the fare hikes are unjust, fight MTA with this:
http://www.adam777.ho8.com/2/PICS/goBROKEstiCker.jpg
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Metrolink Day Pass.... buy a one way ticket from anywhere to anywhere and use it on the bus or Metro Rail all day. The same goes for validated ten trip tickets (ten day passes for $40 or less).