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Speaking from experience, you can easily get by without a car in DTLA, Santa Monica, Echo Park, Highland Park, Chinatown, Koreatown, and Venice (west of Lincoln
by tomjakubowski 10y ago
Speaking from experience, you can easily get by without a car in DTLA, Santa Monica, Echo Park, Highland Park, Chinatown, Koreatown, and Venice (west of Lincoln Blvd). You could probably get away with it in Hollywood/Silver Lake/Los Feliz too.
I went carless in Pasadena and I could get around town, to downtown LA and to places on the northeast side OK using the Gold Line (5 minute walk from my apartment). Unfortunately many of the Pasadena stations are in less-than walkable areas. Making it to social events outside of the Gold Line's coverage area was hard (connecting through DTLA sucks, will be improved when the regional connector is built). I'm sure things would have been better with a bike and had Uber been around when I was doing that.
- mturmon 10y agoGood list. Pasadena, Silver Lake, Echo Park. I'm sure it works in Venice and SM too, although I don't have personal experience with it. K-town or mid-Wilshire might be OK too. I had no car for about 2 years in Pasadena.
- goldenkey 10y agoMy experience was that buses in LA smelled like piss and were in disrepair. The two times I tried to give the buses a chance in Hollywood seemed to confirm this. Can you elaborate on the quality of bus transit?
- frabbit 10y agoEchoes my experience very well. Lived easily without a car in Echo Park and worked/socialized for 5 years in all those neighborhoods.