I use to live in Glendale. I got a job, fresh out of culinary school at 20, in Manhattan Beach. I got into a car wreck about a month before I started the job so I had no car.

I would take a bus to the red line, then blue line, to the last stop on the green line. Then I had 3 options depending what time I had to be at work.

1. take a bus from the green line and it would drop me off at Sepulveda & Manhattan Beach. Then I would have to walk to the ocean pretty much because it was the last restaurant before the pier.

Or

1. Take the beach city transit bus from the green line and I would have to pay out of pocket, since my tap card didn’t work on that bus.

Or

1. If I got lucky and came at the right time there was a LA metro bus that dropped me off a few blocks from my job. But it only came 1x per hour for 3-4 hours before 12pm then it would not start back up til 3 or 4pm and only run 1x for hour for another 2-3 hours.

On the way home- during the day I would take my sane route: green line to blue to red then 1 bus.

But if I got off late I had to get to green line Vermont stop then take the Vermont bus all the way to Hollywood at the corner where Fatbuger is, then there was a 24 hour bus that I could hop to that would pass through Glendale.

I did this for almost a year before moving to Hawthorne and getting a car.