Listed below are some of the educational destinations that can be visited from Holy Faith Church. If you have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program installed on your computer, you can click here to download a formatted, print-ready copy of this information.

     TransitPeople covers transit and admission costs for low-income participants in our weekend program. If you wish to take your students on a week day transit trip without TransitPeople, you can visit the MTA Pass and Token Information page to find a market in your area that sells tokens. A bag of ten tokens costs $9.00. Transfers, when necessary, cost an additional 25 cents per person. You also can call MTA information at 1-800-COMMUTE. MTA schedules and a computerized trip planner are online at their web site : www.mta.net

     When traveling via public bus, it is strongly recommended that you limit group size to 15 - 20 students, and never attempt to travel with more than twenty. If you bring more, you may be stranded if a bus does not have room for your group. 15 - 20 is also a good limit for travel via the Blue or Green Line. The Red Line subway can handle more; however, it becomes more difficult to safely manage students as the group size grows larger.

     If you are a teacher or youth group staff member who plans to take one of these trips on your own, please feel free to e-mail or call (213) 637-0409 for informal advice beforehand. The information that follows should be regarded as an outline. If traveling without TransitPeople, you also should obtain timetables for the routes you plan to use, as well as more detailed information on fares from MTA or other transit agency.

     Holy Faith has excellent access to several major bus lines ... in approximate order of importance, the #40, the #212 and the #111. Unfortunately, the church is a long way from most major educational destinations. For this reason, many of the trips that follow include unusually long transit times.

"Easy" trips

Exposition Park
A Holy Faith group can walk to the southeast corner of Florence and Market and board a #40 bus to Figueroa and Martin Luther King Blvd. The #40 runs every five or ten minutes on Saturdays; the ride should take about twenty-five minutes. This is probably the east trip for Holy Faith to do; fortunately, Exposition Park is the most important educational destination for kids in the city!
L.A. County Museum of Art and La Brea Tar Pits
A Holy Faith group can walk to the southeast corner of La Brea and Florence, board a northbound #212 to Wilshire and La Brea and then walk west to the museums. The #212 runs approximately every 20 minutes on Saturdays; the ride should take a half hour.
Los Angeles Airport
A Holy Faith group can walk to the northeast corner of Florence and Market and board a westbound #111 to the "LAX transit center" near the airport. From here, a shuttle bus can take your group directly to the terminal. The ride from Florence and Market to the airport should take about 15 minutes. Unfortunately, although the 111 runs much more frequently farther east on Florence, it only runs every thirty or forty minutes to the airport.

Longer trips

Downtown Los Angeles
A Holy Faith group can walk to the southeast corner of Florence and Market and board a #40 bus to Broadway and downtown. The ride should take 45 to 50 minutes; the #40 runs every five or ten minutes on Saturdays.
Long Beach Aquarium
A Holy Faith group can walk to the northeast corner of Florence and Market, board a southbound #40 and ride it to the Hawthorne Green Line station. The #40 runs every five or ten minutes; the ride to the Green Line station should take about fifteen minutes. At the Hawthorne Green Line station, the group can board an eastbound Green Line to the Rosa Parks Imperial/Wilmington station, where they can transfer to a southbound Blue Line to the First and Pine "Transit Mall" station in Long Beach. At First and Pine, they can either walk to the aquarium or board a free Passport shuttle bus. The Passport shuttles are red. The Green Line and the Blue Line run every 12 to 15 minutes; the total rail travel time, not counting the wait between trains, should be about forty minutes.
Ocean Discovery Center and Santa Monica
A Holy Faith group can walk to the northeast corner of Florence and Market and board a westbound #111 to the "LAX transit center" near the airport. Here they can board a Santa Monica Big Blue Bus #3 for a 35 minute ride to downtown Santa Monica. The Ocean Discovery Center is beneath the Santa Monica pier. The #111 runs every thirty or forty minutes; the Big Blue Bus #3, which accepts MTA transfers, runs approximately every 20 minutes.
Getty Center
A Holy Faith group can walk to the southeast corner of La Brea and Florence and board a northbound #212 to Wilshire and La Brea. The #212 runs approximately every 20 minutes on Saturdays; the ride should take a half hour. Here they can transfer to a westbound Rapid Bus for a fifteen or twenty minute ride to Wilshire at Bundy. The Rapid Buses run every five or ten minutes. From Wilshire and Bundy, then can board a northbound Santa Monica Big Blue Bus #14 for a fifteen minute ride to the Getty Center. The #14 runs approximately every half hour. Note : Holy Faith could also take the #111 to the LAX transit center and then board a #561 for a half hour ride to the Getty. However, the #561 runs only once an hour.

Trips originating Downtown

     The trips that follow would be long, as they would begin with a 45 to 50 minute ride downtown on the #40.

Griffith Park (Zoo and Autry Museum)
Once downtown, your group can walk to Olive street and board a northbound MTA #96 bus for the half hour ride to the zoo. The #96 runs approximately every half hour on Saturdays.
Southwest Museum
Once downtown, your group can board either the northbound #83 on Spring Street or the northbound #81 on Hill Street for the 25 minute ride to the intersection of Avenue 45, north of the city, and the short walk to the museum. The ride will take aproximately 25 minutes. The #83 runs approximately every 15 minutes on Saturdays; the #81, every 10 to 12.
Huntington Museum
Once downtown, your group can board the northbound #79 on Olive Street for a 35 to 40 minute ride to San Marino Avenue in San Marino and the short walk to the Huntington. The 79 runs every half hour on Saturday.
Arboretum
Once downtown, your group can board the northbound #79 on Olive Street for a 40 to 45 minute ride to Baldwin Avenue in Arcadia. The 79 runs approximately every half hour on Saturday. The walk north on Baldwin to the Arboretum from Huntington Drive may take another fifteen minutes.