Last Thursday I had an event to attend at the Writers Guild near the Farmers Market in LA. I work in Studio City during the week.

So I just started the route planning at the nearby Subway station and that worked: short bike ride, one train ride and a bus to get there. $3.50

But when I got there I discovered that I could have ridden in the other direction to Laurel Canyon and just taken a direct bus there. $1.75 and probably less time.

I wonder if there are enough multi-modal commuters to justify building an app based on the Google routing stuff?

Brompton with bag.

Which is what I was using. It's the route planning that's the issue.

Why, all the transit maps/routes should be publicly available.

The LA Bus system is pretty complex. Not all the buses run all the time.

For me, different city, the busses run too too spread out to be practical. We have light rail that's timely but little coverage. I'll do bike, or bike rail in some cases,but adding in bus is worse than just biking. I grew up using paper schedules, the apps are convenient, but there was something about having all the routes memorized back in the day.

Planning multi-modal trips (Bike, Bus and Train) is complex stuff.I have described Metro Boston as: In my informal Cyclists Guide to Metro Boston, I posted, FYA:

On the train that allows bikes "off-peak", what's the policy for folding bikes? Can they be taken on the train during peak commuting times?

Can be taken any time:"Street bikes" remain fully assembled.

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Amtrak used to have bike hooks on the San Diego -> LA (and beyond) routes. Now they require "bike reservations."

That and the need to deal with buses on occasion is why I'm on my folder from Monday to Friday.