Actually, if you want to go from Venice to downtown, you can just ride your bike to the train station on 5th St. in Santa Monica and get downtown in about 30 mi

Actually, if you want to go from Venice to downtown, you can just ride your bike to the train station on 5th St. in Santa Monica and get downtown in about 30 minutes now. It just opened about a year and a half ago, so probably wasn't there when you lived there.