![]() When asked if the cost of the tickets, the nearly 4-hour bus ride from Mexico and the Uber to the stadium is worth it, she responded without hesitation: It contained Gonzalez’s outfit: a sparkly, green top that mimics what Swift sometimes wears, she said. The two carted a small suitcase on wheels out to the curb near Alameda Street. I’m also looking forward to all the lights and sounds.” “I want to see the outfits of the other girls and the people of all ages who are coming to this concert. “I want to try to understand the culture, all the fashion,” said Morales. Her husband, Juan Morales, 34, whom his wife said was not a big Swift fan, said he was curious to learn first-hand what has become an American phenomenon. She bought the tickets as part of the original sale by Ticketmaster, not through a re-sale, she said. I don’t believe this moment is happening because it is here already,” she said. She was on her phone hailing an Uber, leaning against the Metro information booth at the downtown train hub in the early afternoon. Maria Gonzalez, 31, took a bus from Tijuana to Union Station on Thursday, the first leg on her journey to her first-ever Taylor Swift concert. “Once I get closer to the concert I am going to see other people there and that will be fun.” “I think it will be fun,” Gallaher said before she boarded her first train. And that’s what they say makes her concerts different. “I am taking the A Line,” she said, pausing for several seconds, “to the God I don’t even know I think the Expo Line, then to the K Line, then to the shuttle that will get us to SoFi.”įor many Swifties, the concert is just part of the night out. While the train connections were a bit like alphabet soup, she is a veteran Metro user and felt confident she could find her way. The couple had reserved a space there ahead of time. She planned on meeting her husband at the stadium, after he parks their car at a school that rented out parking spaces. Gail Gallaher of Pasadena took the A Line train from the Memorial Park Station at around 2:30 p.m after waiting more than 20 minutes. “I may carpool after the concert with some of the people I met,” she said. Those who beat the crowds and got there early seemed to fare better.Ĭeline Castaneda took a Lyft from Long Beach to SoFi that took only 40 minutes and cost her $45. Many concert-goers were being dropped off in the ride-hailing lot at SoFi. “That’s better than stressing with my parents for two hours.” ![]() “We get to get there early and enjoy the atmosphere and experience,” she said. Kravitz said the more than two-hour public transit commute wasn’t a concern, and well worth it to escape the anxiety of traffic, parking, or other logistics. A pop-up stand at one station selling TAP cards - in anticipation that there may be long lines at its three vending machines - struggled to get any traffic. Rows of security tape forming snaking lines before the shuttles became merely decorative as buses came and went with space inside to spare. before each show, and for 90 minutes after the concerts.īut the two shuttles were not full Thursday and the line to get on board the K Line at the Downtown Inglewood Station was nearly empty around 5 p.m., as extra accommodations went unneeded. The other ran from the C Line’s Hawthorne/Lennox Station. One ran from the K (Crenshaw) Line’s Downtown Inglewood Station. Since no train actually stops at SoFi, two free shuttles took passengers directly to the concert venue from a train station. to accommodate Swifties after the concerts, which run Aug. Metro rail lines A, B, D, E, C and K will operate late, until 2 a.m. Electronic sign at the B/D lines turnstile at Union Station LA directing Swifties to train connections, on Thursday, Aug. Both the LAPD and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department placed extra patrols on trains after a man was killed Wednesday night on the to the K (Crenshaw) Line, one station away from the Hawthorne/Lennox Station that ran one of two shuttle buses that dropped off fans at the stadium. Those taking the A Line waited at least 20 minutes for a train, due to damaged overhead electrical lines in east Pasadena.
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