Los Angeles transit, by the numbers

Frequent service reaches 45% of stops, and the typical midday wait is about 18 minutes. The weak spot is weekends, which give back 23% of weekday service. Service runs nearly around the clock.

Score 61/100 · sampled Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · how it's graded

Frequent service

45%

of 15,710 stops, every 15 min or better

Median headway

18 min

typical midday wait

Service span

27 hrs

first to last departure

Weekend change

-23%

Saturday vs weekday midday

Every stop, by frequency

15,710 stops on a weekday midday. Bigger dot, more service.

Very frequent ≤7 min 1,750
Frequent 8–15 min 5,309
Moderate 16–30 min 5,098
Infrequent 31–60 min 2,828
Sparse >60 min 725

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LA Metro + Metrolink + LADOT + Big Blue Bus + Culver CityBus GTFS metro-bus (unversioned) · metro-rail (unversioned) · metrolink 20260505 · ladot 30-5-20-2026 El Sereno Tripper,47-7/9/2026 Changes,45-CE 439 and Metrolink v2,183-Downtown DASH eff 7-11-2026 · bbb 2026-08(AUG)_20260728 · culver S1000254_2026.08.05 · sampled 2026-08-26 weekday midday · generated 2026-08-16 · methodology · raw JSON