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This is a list of former Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Metro Local bus routes in Los Angeles County, California. Metro buses are given line numbers that indicate the type of service offered. This method was devised originally by the Southern California Rapid Transit District, Metro's predecessor.
The agency is also the primary public transit provider for the city of Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States, providing the bulk of such services. even though the city's own Los Angeles Department of Transportation LADOT operates a smaller bus only public transit system of its own called DASH within the MTA service area in ...
Metro J Line bus arriving at Los Angeles General Medical Center station on the El Monte Busway The first busway in the Los Angeles area was the El Monte Busway , which opened in January 1973. The El Monte Busway, which runs parallel to the San Bernardino Freeway , offered an 18-minute trip between El Monte and Downtown Los Angeles , compared to ...
Bus routes in the county originally had various identifications. The route from Long Beach to Los Angeles, which operated most of the route as an express service along the freeway of former California State Route 7 (now Interstate 710), was known as the 36F (for "Freeway Flyer"). Other routes had various numbers that at times seemed somewhat ...
As of December 2024, there are 116 routes in the system (excluding Metro Busway routes). The Los Angeles Metro bus has the third largest fleet in North America, with 2,066 buses as of 2024. [3] The majority of Metro Bus lines are operated by Metro directly, with select services operated by private contractors. [4]
The Hollywood Bowl operates 18 bus routes that serve the Hollywood bowl from park and ride lots within Los Angeles County [23] The routes, which operate under the name Bowl Shuttle, are free for Metrolink riders from the Downtown Burbank Metrolink station and the LA Metro B Line Hollywood/Highland Station. [24]
The transit center, originally named the Artesia Transit Center, was built as the southern terminus of the Harbor Transitway, a 10.3-mile (16.6 km) shared-use express bus corridor and high-occupancy vehicle lanes (later converted to high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes) running in the median of Interstate 110 (Harbor Freeway) north to Downtown Los Angeles.
Metrolink ticket vending machines. Machines also sell tickets for Amtrak trains and the FlyAway (bus) bus service to Los Angeles International Airport. Metrolink's fare structure is based on a flat fee for boarding the train and an additional distance cost with fares calculated in 25-cent increments between stations.