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Metrolink Adds Discounted Trains to U2 Angel Stadium Concerts
Anaheim Metrolink station is across the parking lot from Angel Stadium (Photo by LA Wad via LAist Featured Photos flickr pool).
The seemingly neverending 360° Tour brings U2 to Angel Stadium on Friday and Saturday night. With fans expected to come from all corners of Southern California, traffic will be a mess, especially coinciding with Friday rush hour. If you're going to the show, try to carpool or -- better yet -- take the train.
Metrolink partnered with LiveNation to offer $7 round-trip tickets to the Anaheim Metrolink station, about a 10-minute walk from the stadium. Sure beats $25 to park in the lot. Special U2 train schedule below:
Showtime is 7 p.m., Lenny Kravitz opens. The concerts, originally scheduled for June 7-8 2010, were postponed when Bono was hospitalized in May 2010 for emergency spinal surgery. Those tickets will be honored for the Friday and Saturday shows respectively and it appears that tickets ($36.95 - $270.75) are still available for both nights at Ticketmaster. Leaving early to be the first in line? Nice try -- the hard core have been waiting at the Big A since Wednesday morning, according to the OC Register.
Southbound
- Los Angeles Union Station: Departs at 5:50 PM
- Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs: 6:11 PM
- Buena Park 6:17 PM
- Fullerton 6:24 PM
- Anaheim: Arrival at 6:33 PM
Northbound
- Laguna Niguel: Departs at 5:50 PM
- Irvine: 5:59 PM
- Tustin: 6:07 PM
- Santa Ana: 6:13 PM
- Orange: 6:18 PM
- Anaheim: 6:22 PM
Return trips: Southbound and Northbound trains will leave Anaheim Station 45 minutes after the show ends and return making all stops until reaching L.A. Union Station (Northbound) and Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo Station (Southbound).
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