public transportation in la

whats the best and cheapest way to get from santa ana airport to hollywood.
unless you'd like to give me a ride

Ask one of your friends to give you a ride. I haven't lived in LA for 6 years and I know they have the Metro which goes to Hollywood and close to LAX now but you'll have to get from Orange County to the LAX area and that'll take you about....4 hours....at least that's how long it took me to get from Gardena to Fullerton on the bus...so, you might as well start asking someone to pick you up now!


(why'd you fly into Santa Ana when you're going to Hollywood? Burbank or LAX would have been WAY better)

i had no choice, i'm in town with business. that's a funny way to put it, but there's a music equipment trade show going on, and they're letting me stay for a couple days.
so yeah, that sounds like a craptacular journey across a city i don't know, help

Why not rent an el cheapo wreak?

santa ana to hollywood isnt that far.....
maybe an hour and a half...
without real traffic.

i'm 23, around here in MN you can't rent a car by yourself till you're 25

It's kind of a last resort, but you can rent a U-Haul pickup truck at the age of 18. Not sure how cost effective it'd be though.

[Edited on Dec 29, 2003 by rockepidemic]

i think avis lets you rent at 18. check around...

I'm pretty sure that's true

If memory serves, there is a place called "rent a wreck" somewhere in LA. I once rented a POS car out there and it was sooper cheap. Me thinks it would not be wise
to take public transpo. from OC to LA, but once you get to LA, the Metro line can get you around fine.

P.S.~ You can also take the super shuttle from the airport to wherever, it might cost about 30 bux or so.

[Edited on Dec 29, 2003 by sketchy1]

You would have to take a series of buses.

I would begin with contacting octa.net or mta.net for trip info.

It will take a good 3 hours.

Somehow you will need to get an Orange County Transit Authority bus from Santa Ana Airport to the Disneyland area. ASK DRIVER FOR TERMINAL!

There is a terminal near Disneyland where you will transfer to the MTA (Yellow Metro Bus) #460 to Downtown LA, get off at 7th & Flower, walk across the street down the into the Metro Red Line Subway.

Board a train marked NO HOLLYWOOD this means yes it goes to Hollywood (No joke). There are several stops along Hollywood Blvd and you can go from there to your final point.

Hope this helps.

I consider myself the maven madman of the LA bus system.

-Sean in LA

[Edited on Dec 30, 2003 by redseal100]

Its actually quite useful, yet piss poorly made known to the public and tourists alike.

mta.net for more on the "New Creulty"

-Sean in LA

it sure as hell ain't the RTD.

call a cab.

I own a tattoo of the RTD emblem baby!

That shows how far my interest for that era has gone!

-Sean in LA

Over the last 50 years the public transit went from amazing, to good, got revaped in the 1970's with teh gas crisis and from the late 80's onward has gone in a downward spiral.

It was considered one of the truly great systems as recently as 1988 but has gone to hell since.

-Sean

Over the last 50 years the public transit went from amazing, to good, got revaped in the 1970's with teh gas crisis and from the late 80's onward has gone in a downward spiral.

It was considered one of the truly great systems as recently as 1988 but has gone to hell since.

-Sean

Over the last 50 years the public transit went from amazing, to good, got revaped in the 1970's with teh gas crisis and from the late 80's onward has gone in a downward spiral.

It was considered one of the truly great systems as recently as 1988 but has gone to hell since.

-Sean