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This is the ‘full’ expanded desktop PDF version of MIchael Brein's Travel Guide to Los Angeles which includes an ultra-large, zoomable official map of LA’s subway and light rail system with embedded links to visitor attractions. This version of the Los Angles guide is optimized for desktops and tablets. A 'lite' version ($3.99) for mobile devices is also available but without these special features of the 'full' expanded edition. Michael Brein's Guide to Los Angeles by the Metro shows visitors how to go to Los Angeles's top 50 visitor attractions by the LA Metro (subway and light rail) and selected buses. The guide shows which transit to use, which transit stops to board and exit, and, using detailed mini-area-walking maps, how to walk exactly from these transit stops directly to the visitor attractions. Additional nearby points of interest are also indicated on these mini-area-walking maps. An ultra-large official map of the Los Angeles Metro is also provided. Michael Brein's Guide to Los Angeles is part of the world's first and only travel guide series specifically designed to show travelers how to sightsee the top 50 visitor attractions by public transportation in a variety of the world's most visited cities.
The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a result of pressure from local leaders, particularly with the election of Tom Bradley as mayor in 1973, the Los Angeles Metro Rail gradually took shape in the consummate car city. Railtown presents the history of this system by drawing on archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with many of the key players to provide critical behind-the-scenes accounts of the people and forces that shaped the system. Ethan Elkind brings this important story to life by showing how ambitious local leaders zealously advocated for rail transit and ultimately persuaded an ambivalent electorate and federal leaders to support their vision. Although Metro Rail is growing in ridership and political importance, with expansions in the pipeline, Elkind argues that local leaders will need to reform the rail planning and implementation process to avoid repeating past mistakes and to ensure that Metro Rail supports a burgeoning demand for transit-oriented neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This engaging history of Metro Rail provides lessons for how the American car-dominated cities of today can reinvent themselves as thriving railtowns of tomorrow.
Dr. Kimberly Donovan's life is in shambles. After her medical ethics are questioned, first her family, then her closeted lover, the Chief of the ER, betray her. Determined to make a fresh start, she flees to California and L.A. Metropolitan Hospital. Dr. Jess McKenna, L.A. Metro's Chief of the ER, gives new meaning to the phrase emotionally guarded, but she has her reasons. When Kim and Jess meet, the attraction is immediate. Emotions Jess has tried to repress for years surface. But her interest in Kim also stirs dark memories. They settle for friendship, determined not to repeat past mistakes, but secretly they both wish things could be different. Will the demons from Jess's past destroy their future before it can even get started? Or will L.A. Metro be a place to not only heal the sick, but to mend wounded hearts?
Can you visit and enjoy Los Angeles without a car? YES! At one time in the early 20th Century, Los Angeles had the largest urban train transit system in the world. Then Los Angeles became the city of freeways, cars, suburbs, and smog. At the end of the 20th Century, Los Angeles citizens decided they had enough of the pollution and over-crowded roads and voted to build a mass train transit system. Today Los Angles Metro is the third largest system in miles in the US, the eighth largest in ridership in the US, and the largest light rail system in the US.What this means for visitors and residents is that a lot -- a whole lot of L.A. -- is accessible by public mass transit, including the fabulously revitalized Downtown L.A., Hollywood, and nearby cities such as Pasadena, Long Beach, and Santa Monica. And so very much in between. From the heights of the Hollywood Hills to the Pacific Ocean and the neighborhoods of Los Angeles, readers of LA NO CAR will find out that there is so much to do, see, eat, and enjoy that not even a few weeks is enough.For International visitors, using the L.A.Metro will be a familiar and less challenging way of getting around because not everyone is ready for L.A. traffic. Yes, many of the world's city traffic and driving is challenging, but not over such a wide expanse as L.A., where it is not so much the speed as it is the slow crawl that seems to happen day and night.LA NO CAR not only make sense of visiting L.A. with the Metro system, it also saves money. L.A. Metro fares are more than reasonable, and with their TAP card system, riders have access to every other mass transit system in Los Angeles County, as well as their own expanding system of short term bicycle rentals.LA NO CAR is laid-out starting in Downtown and travels to Hollywood, North Hollywood, Highland Park, Pasadena, Long Beach and Santa Monica, all by using Metro subway, light rail, BRT, and DASH buses. Each Metro Station that is highlighted has places to visit, see, enjoy and, of course, eat and drink. (LA NO CAR confirms that L.A. is a foodie town.) Throughout LA NO CAR are QR Codes that help navigate the way from the stations and stops to featured locations, and almost all are under one mile/1.6 KM from the nearest Metro Station. Most are under a half a mile/.80 KM walk, and many are adjacent to the Metro Station.All of this proximity makes it possible to easily travel from Metro Station to Metro Station and at each stop find more than enough to enjoy. This is especially true in Downtown Los Angeles where Chinatown, Olvera Street, and Little Tokyo blend in with the Arts and Fashion Districts, as well as the cultural attractions of Bunker Hill to make a visit to Downtown a multi-day destination. All along the way is history, unexpected places, and the full flavor on one of the world's great cities.And of course, there is Hollywood where the subway has multiple stops, and most of the world famous attractions are just steps from the subway. That one of the major theme park attractions, Universal Studios Hollywood, has a subway stop steps from its free trolleys makes it easy to understand how LA NO CAR isn't some Hollywood fantasy. It is completely for real.
Michael Brein's Guide to Los Angeles by the Metro shows visitors how to go to Los Angeles's top 50 visitor attractions by the LA Metro (subway and light rail) and selected buses. The guide shows which transit to use, which transit stops to board and exit, and, using detailed mini-area-walking maps, how to walk exactly from these transit stops directly to the visitor attractions. Additional nearby points of interest are also indicated on these mini-area-walking maps. An ultra-large official map of the Los Angeles Metro is also provided. Michael Brein's Guide to Los Angeles is part of the world's first and only travel guide series specifically designed to show travelers how to sightsee the top 50 visitor attractions by public transportation in a variety of the world's most visited cities.