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Riding Metro | Planning Your Trip | Timetables

Timetables

The Metro System offers nearly 200 bus and rail lines to take you wherever you want to go. An easy-to-understand numbering system helps to identify each line:

Metro Local service

To/From Downtown Los Angeles

1-99

East/West routes in other areas

100-199

North/South routes in other areas

200-299

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24 hour

Limited stop service

300-399

Express to/from Downtown Los Angeles

400-499

Express in other areas

500-599

Shuttles & Circulators (Provides Local service within one or two adjacent neighborhoods and/or jurisdictions)

600-699

Metro Rapid service

700-799

Metro Rail service

Metro Blue Line

801

Metro Red Line

802

Metro Green Line

803

Metro Gold Line

804

Metro Purple Line

805

Metro Transitway

Metro Orange Line

901

Harbor Transitway

903

Wilshire Rapid Express

920

Reading a timetable

Timetables show when a bus or train will arrive at major stops along the route.

  1. Find the heading for the departure point nearest you (be sure you have the correct direction and time of travel).

  2. Look down the column under your departure heading to find the time you will need to be at the bus stop or rail station.

  3. Locate the heading for your destination.

  4. Read across from your departure time to determine your arrival time.

  5. If you need to transfer, follow the same steps for the second route. (Your destination point on the first route will be your departure point on the second route.)

  6. If you want to reach a destination by a specific time, it may be easier to work backwards. In other words, find the arrival time you want for your destination first; then reverse the process to find the time you should be at the first stop to begin your trip.