SoCal Transiteer: Exploring Greater L.A., one bus at a time.

News from the niche world of railfanning, transitfanning and urbanism.

Hey, I'm Eduardo! I'm one of the writers behind The SoCal Transiteer, a new student-led newsletter and publication covering public transit news, trips, and everything else in SoCal. We started this to help cover everything that goes on in our little transitfanning niche. I hope you enjoy this little intro to what we hope will become a bastion of the transitfan and foamer community in Southern California.

A Growing Transit Revolution

Historically, L.A. and all of Southern California has been known as a staple of car culture. Ever since the storied fall of the Pacific Electric (“Red Cars”), L.A.’s streets have been littered and clogged with cars of all shapes and sizes. It was the site of the West Coast’s first freeway, and L.A.’s wide boulevards and traffic jams are known to everyone.

A growing system, and community

Recently, though, our public transit scene has been growing. With some of the most ambitious expansion plans in the entire United States, it’s no doubt that Metro is starting to take back all the space we surrendered to cars. Recently, Metro opened a connection to the LAX Airport: LAX/Metro Transit Center. Once the adjacent Automated People Mover (APM) opens, you’ll be able to get off one train and take one straight to your terminal.

With this growing system, there’s also been a growing community of hardcore and even casual transit fans. Still relatively niche, we fan buses, trains, and use the system daily for transportation to work, school or even for leisure.

So why the blog?

I’m glad you asked! This first post is a little cheesy, I will say. However, my goal is for this to become a reliable source for all news about new transportation projects in L.A., transit news, rare sightings, events and even trip ideas. Anything related to transit might be featured here. I’ll give you the in-depth rundown on history, new discoveries and fun ideas to try out on the system that we all love.

Farewell for now, and I hope to see you in the next post!

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