OntheGoNEWS FOR SOUTHERN COMMUTERS NOVEMBER 2016 Holiday Shopping Need a Ride to Without the Hassle the Airport? Avoid crowded parking lots and FlyAway Bus service offers traffic—plus save on gas—by taking an affordable ride to LAX bus or rail to your favorite shopping from Union Station, , destinations. Westwood, Hollywood, Metro’s • Metro offers a Shopping Guide Orange Line station and Long that shows you what lines lead to Beach, lawa.org/FlyAway. The Grove, Universal City Walk, The Bob Hope Airport Shuttle LA’s Garment District, 3rd Street travels from North Hollywood to the Promenade and malls and shopping Burbank Airports on weekends and districts throughout the Los Angeles area. holidays, burbankbus.org. • If you’re in San Bernardino, you can now ride the bus to and from the Cabazon Outlets thanks to the newly expanded Route 120, which now connects to the San Bernardino Transit Center, .org. • VCTC Intercity Transit’s Oxnard Camarillo Connector links South Oxnard to the Camarillo Premium Outlets, goventura.org. • Catch ’s Citadel Outlet Express, hopping on Metrolink from anywhere in Southern California to Union Station (only $10 for a daily pass on weekends), then catching a free shuttle to the outlets, metrolinktrains.com. You can also find a route online at go511.com or IE511.org or by calling 511. Transit News Expo Line Gets More Frequent Trains Free Rides for Veterans To meet customer demand on the Expo Line— As a way of saying “thank with service between Santa Monica and downtown you” for their service, VCTC LA—Metro has increased train frequency to every 6 Intercity Transit and all Ventura minutes during the majority of the day weekdays (up County bus operators will offer from every 12 minutes). For maps and schedules, visit free rides to veterans on Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11. Transit metro.net. schedule information is at goventura.org. OC Bus Mobile Ticketing App OC Bus recently unveiled its mobile ticketing app, which allows riders to purchase fare on a smartphone, activating the ticket when they’re ready to ride—no need to deal with paper passes or digging for exact change. Download the app and get more information at octa.net. Photo credit: County Gary Los Angeles Leonard, photographer. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Research Library and Archive. OntheGo for Commuters is a service of your county transportation agencies