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About public transportation in southern California with some tips and some
advice hopefully you can use.
Number one is Access Paratransit.
Now if you're in LA County, you probably have seen those white vans with the Access sign.
Now once you get your access card, if you do quality for a PCA, which is a Personal Care
Assistant, that person rides with you for free.
Once you get verified, do the paperwork, you can use access services.
You can go from all the way from Disneyland to Long Beach to Northridge, to, pretty much anywhere
in LA county.
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And what's great about them is that they are 24/7.
So once you get Access, you'll get this little like Access card that you can use thoroughout
LA county.
And, you can actually use that service in different cities.
So if you're traveling for 21 days within a year, you can use it for different cities
and use their paratransit.
But just keep in mind that not all of the cities offer it 24/7. LA is probably the
only county that I know that I've been to that offers their service for wheelchair accessible
vehicles for, just, 24/7 even on hoidays.
Just make sure that you do plan a lot ahead of time because sometimes they're late and
sometimes, one time they just didn't show up, but as long as you call and figure
out where, what's happening, they'll, they're never gonna leave you, like, you're
always going to be okay with them.
You can also transfer, so if you wanna go to Orange County, you can transfer in Knotts
Berry Farm or Disneyland, which is you can also transfer into different counties.
Number two.
So, RTA, also stands for Riverside Transportation Agency.
And they also work as the same as Access where they give um, transportation assistance for
people with disabilities.
And, they're usually the normal of how a different city would do it, whether it's
Hawaii or Atlanta or Nashville.
They do follow a bus system and they have limited hours that they operate.
But they're usually pretty good.
I've never had any problems with the ramps or strap downs.
Um, for them I would also use coupons cause dealing with cash and all that stuff, um,
just got really annoying for me.
Just make sure you plan ahead, you might get other riders on your trip.
Sometimes you'll have to transfer trip, so make sure you have plenty of time,
a couple of hours depending on where you're going for that destination.
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Number three.
The Greyhound.
And the Greyhound is more nation broad, so state to state, city to city, it really doesn't
matter but the problem that I have with Greyhound is that some of the bus drivers, they don't
really know what they're doing.
And if they do know what they're doing, a lot of the times the equipment is just not working
or is just broken.
Sometimes it'll take 'em an hour to get the ramp working.
Sometimes it'll take 'em an hour to move the chairs out of the way.
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When I have problems with Greyhound, I usually know within two minutes that there's
gonna be a problem and that's when I start to document everything.
I'll say, 9:40 the bus came, 9:42 the ramp wasn't working; take pictures and videos if
that needs to happen as well.
And I would just just email or call the ADA department in Greyhound the next day to let them
know what's happening.
So that they can investigate and also make sure you write down the bus number, um, the name
of the bus driver.
Sometimes they actually will leave you and then you're stranded at a station; you're
like, what do I do?
So, be very cautious about using Greyhound, but they are great cause you can go long distances
not just county within county.
So, if the…So if the Greyhound isn't just
your favorite thing, you can actually use the bus system and you don't need any qualifications
or any eligibility to take the city bus.
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And, every city that I've been to, the ramps
are great.
I've never had a problem with taking the city bus, they're pretty…they do take
a long time and don't go long distances but just be aware that if there's too many people
on the bus, you're gonna be left behind.
If there are already two wheelchairs on the bus, you're gonna be left behind.
But, if you are in LA county and you have your Access ID card, in LA county, you can
ride the bus for free.
If you're not a fan of the bus or the city but or whatever, Greyhound, you can always
take the train.
(Lyrics to My Name Is) "Hi, my name is (what?), My name is (who), My name is" Metrolink.
Metrolink is mostly for southern California; they go up to, I think they go into Ventura
County, and San Bernardino County, down to Riverside County, LA County, Orange County,
they go to Oceanside.
I really actually like Metrolink because, I think you could
probably fit four, at least four wheelchairs; they have a portable ramp that they use.
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Usually at the very very end, so if the ramp and the railing, and that's usually where,
um, the wheelchair accessible wheelchair portion is.
And also, if you do ride in LA County, say, and you use Metrolink, say you're from LA
Union Station all the way to Pomona, you ride for free as long as you have your dandy little
Access card.
And, you can charge your chair on Metrolink.
Now not to confuse this with METRO.
(Lyrics to My Name Is) "Hi, my name is (huh?), My name is (what), My name is" METRO.
METRO is mostly a subway system, and I'm not a fan of the METRO because it's very
confusing.
With the METRO, if you also have a dandy mandy, you can ride METRO for free.
I once took it from Universal Studios Red line to Union Station.
Me: "I am at Universal Studios, um, I'm going across this little bridge to the Metro."
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There are stairs and escalators, and the elevator I had to
go through this door, through the roof, over this hall, through this tiny hall, down the
elevator, up the elevator.
It was crazy messy.
I'm not a fan of the subway or the METRO cause also there is like this gap.
So, each subway train thing, there's probably a good inch that you have to kind of zoom
over and sometimes the platform is a little bit lower that the actual subway train, sometimes
it's higher.
So when people are getting off, it lowers and when people come off…so you have this
like, inch or even two between the platform and the bus.
But usually I just go in kinda fast in a diagonal so my wheels don't get stuck.
This is operated by Los Angeles county.
The subway that is kinda the Red line, the Blue line, you got the Purple line, and the
bus is above ground and the subway, METRO is under the ground.
Their time?
They're pretty fast, they usually come, in like fifteen minutes, every eight minutes,
every half an hour.
Subway is a lot faster than it is to take the bus.
Some cars will have wheelchair signs, but you literally have to like, race to like,
the one that has like the blue logo of the wheelchair to like, make it on and sometimes, I'm
like I just go on and it doesn't have a wheelchair, so.
(Lyrics to My Name Is) "Hi, my name is (what?), My name is (who), My name is" Amtrak.
Now Amtrak is operated nationwide, and they're mostly...you can go from LA to Chicago on the
Amtrak to Dallas to Portland.
Metrolink is just a branch of Amtrak that only operates in southern California.
METRO has nothing to do with Amtrak or trains.
So it's you're on Metrolink or on Amtrak, you can for sure charge your wheelchair on them.
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Now, one thing about Amtrak, also, is that you can sometimes take the bus through, so
if you're like going from Riverside to LA, you'll have to take the Thruway Bus.
So the Thruway Bus can take you from Riverside to Fullerton, and then you have to take the
Amtrak from like Fullerton to LA.
You can't just take Thruway Bus, like you have to take both of them or just the tram
Amtrak by itself.
Speaking of Amtrak, the FlyAway Bus actually
that goes to LAX has the same bus structure where they have their ramp at the very end
of the bus.
And the ramp is very, very tiny.
I barely fit on, I thought I was going to fall off the ramp.
Um, but the FlyAway is fine.
I didn't have any problem with the bus there.
So there is a lot of planning involved.
And if you're taking um, like Amtrak, or the FlyAway, or the Greyhound, make sure you
purchase your ticket in advance for a wheelchair accessible ticket and seat as well.
Um, what else?
Universal Studios.
So if you're taking the Universal Studios Tram, from Universal CityWalk all the way down to
on the big hill, it's really crazy casue one, you have no idea where this bus is, and
two, they only have one tram with a wheelchair accessible seating.
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Makre sure you hold on because it is very not safe.
So that's it, I hope you enjoyed this video, and helped you figure out your options.
And you can always use different transportations.
Like sometimes I'll take Access to the Union Station and then Union Station, I'll take
the Metrolink to Riverside and then from Riverside, I'll take the city bus to wherever.
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