[Asis-l] LA airport and getting to Long Beach

[Marcia J. Bates]

Dear ASIS attendees,
	I've had questions about getting to the Long Beach hotel. 
Generally, taxis or shuttle buses are the best, and will take about 
30-45 minutes from LAX (LA airport) to the hotel.  I don't have the 
price, but you can find out at the airport.
	There are two kinds of shuttle buses at the LA airport.  One 
is the big, full-sized buses that take you around to different 
terminals in the airport.  These are free.  The other are smaller, 
usually brightly colored, buses that carry 8-20 people for hotels, 
car rental agencies, and personal transportation.
	There are 8 terminals around a big U.  As you exit your 
terminal with your baggage, there will be, in front of each terminal, 
spread out to your left and right, 4 or 5 different types of bus 
stops, each marked by a different colored sign overhead.  I forget 
the exact names and colors for each  (I'm in Finland right now!), but 
each type of stop handles a different type of bus.  Look for a stop 
that handles the kind of little shuttle bus that goes, for a price, 
to any address.  Buses of any type stop only at their assigned color.
	The subway does not go from the airport to Long Beach.  Here 
is the information I've found from the transit agency's website for 
the LAX-Long Beach trip by bus, if you want the cheapest route (a 
couple dollars). The hotel is about a block from the convention 
center.  Check with the driver in case there is a stop closer to the 
hotel than the convention center.  Going by an LA Metro bus is 
lengthy and noisy, and I wouldn't take this trip late at night.
			   Marcia

Starting at Lax

Take  Lot C Shuttle (AIRPORT PARKING - 96TH ST)
Get off at Lax Transit Center

Go to Lax Transit Center Dock 8
Take Metro Bus 232 West (LONG BEACH TRANS. MALL)
Get off at 1st St / Long Beach Blvd

Ending at Long Beach Convention Center

Estimated Travel Time: 1 Hour 23 Minutes

So you understand what's happening, the Airport shuttle Bus C is 
taking you to the general Los Angeles bus transit station a few 
blocks from the airport.  At that transit station is where you get 
all general LA buses going anywhere in the region.
-- 
Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Information Studies
230 GSEIS Building
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 USA
Tel: 310-206-9353   Fax: 310-206-4460
Email: mjbates at ucla.edu
Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/

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