What I saw on the train, I thought was a homeless man. It turned out the man was deceased and no one noticed. Don't know how long he was there but when the train got to the next stop, I ran out and told a police officer, he told me, don't worry about it. When I got outside, I called 911 and told them there was a dead man on the train. They told me, Thank you and have a nice day. This is why I hate riding the Metro trains.

@ErrolSlovak24

9 ай бұрын

“A guy gets on the MTA here in LA and dies, do you think anyone would notice?” - Tom Cruise, Collateral

@berzerker1100

8 ай бұрын

There was a deceased person dead on a station platform bench for almost a whole day a few years back, but everyone, Passengers/ train operators assumed that individual was just another homeless sleeper, this was @ south Pasadena station. True story 🙏🤔

@frankdenardo8684

24 күн бұрын

​@@berzerker1100The person kicked the bucket 🪣.

What I hate the most about this is that all sides from the metro, local governments, police departments, and even the people of LA really aren't interested in the Metro system despite demanding alternatives to the car. The B Line to me is one of the best lines because it gets you to some of the most iconic and heavy congestion parts of the city. Unfortunately, the last time I took it, it felt like I was on the set of the Last of Us. People sleeping around and smelling like a portable restroom at a music festival. And it was on the Super Bowl day when I thought it was gonna get busy due to people heading out to bars and restaurants and not wanting to drive due to the amount of alcohol they would be drinking. It's a damn shame that the Metro is in a state like this and the city is blowing it. Hopefully, they see this and actually do something as the Metro lines will be key for a better future for the city. Especially if they're gonna be hosting huge sporting events like the World Cup and the Olympics. If I were the agency, guarantee I'll make major changes.

Thank you for telling the truth. We just visited LA and the purple line especially was a complete mess. I have never seen anything so out of control. LA needs a new city council and governor...

@alaplex100

Жыл бұрын

Third world people in govt and you get a third world city. It's not rocket science.

@carlosmendoza8312

Жыл бұрын

This problem belongs to the LACMTA. The place is run by lunatics!

Man, that's the worst I've seen it. You need to show the new mayor of LA that shit. Actual shit.

@lavital310

Жыл бұрын

Actual shit for real

@Jon.Morimoto

9 ай бұрын

Mayor Karen Ass is driven around in luxury vehicles and has well-armed police protection. She doesn't care. In fact, Bass supports the criminals and parasites over the needs of working-class people.

Thank you for making this video, and especially for calling to action at the end. I’m living in the Bronx, NY where our subway system, a ‘model for the nation’, doubles as an informal shelter system for our unhoused, addicted and mentally ill. I’m not blind to the extent of the homelessness crisis in CA, but in the last few years it’s devolved into nothing short of a national humanitarian crisis. The way I see it, even one single homeless person is a monumental policy failure, and a catastrophic loss of human potential. But look at the values and institutions we have enshrined in our society, and it’s plain and simple why we have so much needless suffering. We need in this country a moral reckoning, because this is nothing to walk by with our sons and daughters, acting like it’s just the way things are supposed to be. Far from it. Keep making these videos, exposing our brutal realities and demanding change, and if they ignore our pleas, take change! In taking action, we will all get to a better place, I know it.

@lavital310

Жыл бұрын

Well said my friend!

@robertbright947

8 ай бұрын

Supposedly there is a plan by the State to buy up vacant commercial properties and rezone 2 million units in Los Angeles and a similar number in San Francisco with 1/2 of the units reserved for low income (presumably many homeless)

Man, your videos are so entertaining and I love the messenger spreading really makes me miss the union station/LA and really wants to make me help out in anyway possible I really wish I could help but until I will go back to the place I love again thank you so much for making this and I hope you upload more like this in the future I love you these videos so much and I also will be taking your tips in this video when I do go to LA again when I'm older!

Thank you. I get so tired of hearing all the stories about the history and how wonderful and majestic Union Station is. Nice to see someone showing the reality.

@lavital310

Жыл бұрын

You got it! I have another video I gotta edit soon. Need to go back and record some more. I’m lagging

The reason the people who run the station finally finally cracked down on the homeless was a massive bedbug flea and lice infestation. And those bugs jumped on the clothes of the employees and traveled home with the employees.So finally they put up those barriers around the seats. It’s a very functional necessity a hundreds of thousands of people use it every day. You can even get direct buses to airports in Bakersfield and Orange County there.

Wow. I used to ride the metro red line frequently with my family back in the 90s, all the stations were clean, smelled fresh, I would always take deep breaths when the train was approaching the station because there was a certain smell and it smelled great! It was very safe as well back then, there were many families all riding in the trains. That was in a different life now it seems 😢

@mrxman581

11 ай бұрын

It only got noticeably worse during Covid, but it's better already and improving everyday.

@Jon.Morimoto

9 ай бұрын

​@@mrxman581 LOL, Mayor Karen Ass needs to fire you and hire a new propagandist. You remind me of that other talentless hack, "Baghdad Bob" of Saddam Hussein's government

@unitedfederalnations3761

6 ай бұрын

it’s worse than it was back then, for sure, but the worst it’s ever been was probably 2020-2022. the pandemic causing low ridership helped underlying problems surface and things got worse much more quickly than before, but Metro has been stepping up focus on safety, mostly since March 2023, and I can say it’s been getting better and better since then, but from a previously very bad place for sure. For one note not from my own anecdote, an article in late October stated that ridership had jumped 10%, and crime had dropped 53% in the 6 months previous.

@mrxman581

4 ай бұрын

​@@Jon.MorimotoWhat are you blabbering about? You have no clue since you obviously don't use LA Metro. You keep living in your own reality distortion field and enjoy your ignorance. Ignorance is bliss is your life motto.😅😅😅

@mrxman581

4 ай бұрын

​@@unitedfederalnations3761Indeed. The improvements are noticeable. One of the reasons so many homeless started using LA Metro during the 3 years of 2020, 2021, and 2022 was because LA Metro decided that they wouldn't enforce fares during the worst of Covid. They finally rescinded that policy in 2023. It will take several more months to get to pre-pandemic levels.

Be sure to check out the disgusting restroom on the east end, by the Patsaouras bus plaza. The floor is always covered in piss. 🤢

The L.A. Metro Board should be ashamed of themselves.

I have lived in Los Angeles all 49 years of my life. The problem is not just the homeless. There are those who are 100% violent mean people preying on the weak all day every day. There are mentally ill who are instantly triggered by even the slightest of your movement or eye contact. I was attacked there several times. At some point they will find you. MTA Los Angeles used to be policed by the LA County Sheriff's Department and had way more resources and so many more officers to deal with the problems. The problem is not that LAPD does not know what they are doing. The problem is they do not have enough personnel AND have to constantly find ways to tip toe around certain racial types to avoid lawsuits and or escalating situation just by interacting with those of a certain racial background... nobody is allowed to say it. If anybody out there has listened to MTA Board meetings, you will hear at many points how much contempt MTA Board Members and LA City Councilmembers have for law enforcement. Now they have these unarmed "Transit Ambassadors" who stand around with their face jammed into their smartphones trying to pass the time while the world around them falls into chaos and people are being victimized. There are reasons why people want out of Los Angele and public transportation is not just inadequate, it is inherently prone to allow thugs to operate.

@MitchellBPYao

2 ай бұрын

If I was like this before would I prefer LA

@SharlenesJourney

3 күн бұрын

You’re telling the truth I’m not from LA but it’s the same here in the Dc area very mean violent people that’s why I don’t make eye contact with people very nasty

LA metro makes Bart look like a gem. The problem with those trains is you can’t move from one train car to another.

I've once walked throughout DTLA including iconic Union Station (LAUPT) during the '60's when people were more respectful & the homeless stayed out of sight. No one gets jailed for vagrancy or public intoxication anymore-that behavior was acceptable only in Skid Row back then which is approx. 1 mile from LAUPT. The jails are too full with violent criminals & the violently insane-the L.A. County Jail is a few blocks from the station on Bauchet St. A nurse was beaten & killed last year at a bus stop in front of East LAUPT. The pandemic impacted everyone while the homeless were free to shelter in place. We live in a democratic society where people are given the right to make their own decisions. Some have accepted assistance & rehabilitation while others prefer to live freely & cannot abide by rules. There's no easy fix for this situation. Drug abuse &/or mental illness is the root cause for much of this. I've worked in these environments & the odors are horrendous.

It looks like the station is being used as free housing for the mentally ill and addicted. I wonder if there are alternative buildings that can be used as a public shelter. Metro ridership is terrible and it’s partly because of this and partly because of the underdeveloped areas surrounding the stations. LA has to keep pushing to clean this up and build TOD to make the metro useful. Otherwise, the most effective use of these stations (which are worth billions of dollars btw) are as homeless shelters.

Last year, Metro hired a safety analyst to inspect the system, and that analyst got attacked. Luckily, he survived, but that shows that they need to fix the metro.

@mrxman581

Ай бұрын

It's improved noticeably in the last year. They've hired more security, cleaning crews, and transit ambassadors. LA Metro has had 16 months of increased ridership. Things are getting better.

@TrainSounds

Ай бұрын

Crime is still a huge problem and it’s still rising.

I have ridden the red line between Downtown and North Hollywood and there were times when unpleasantness was inescapable however the last few times I did ride it I noticed that there were more metro cops around at the stations and on the trains and it was a lot better

@mrxman581

4 ай бұрын

I noticed that too. It has improved noticeably in the last 6 months. Good to see things going in the right direction.

good thing that they have let you film. I used the Red Line LA in transit, about 10 days ago and I was horrified... I feel lucky I got out of it safely. There were 2 occasions when homeless people provoked me, I played dumb and this is how I survived.

@lavital310

3 ай бұрын

Crazy!

It's sad that there is a metro system but people can hardly enjoy the ride.

The Artesia A (Blue) Line Station is seriously worse. Metro 130 decided to split their popular one-seat ride from Redondo Beach to Cerritos (Fullerton until Christmas 2003). Torrance Transit and Long Beach transit settled on Artesia station over Harbor Gateway Transit Center (where LBT intended to split the 130 and adopt the eastern half of the route as their proposed Artesia Crosstowns, now Line 141*), as Torrance accused Long Beach of duplicating their Line 6 (which is younger than Line 130, which started in 1976). One week before Line 130 (or what was left of it) became LBT 141, I was almost attacked by an African American male while I was taking photographs of the new signs for 141 (which were installed days before). I got on the train for safety and ended up in another part of town. I am definitely ready to save for a car. *Long Beach Transit was intending to still call Metro's former Line 130 "Long Beach Transit Route 130". However, due to Long Beach Transit's route name theming based on streets, they did not want passengers to think that an Artesia Bl route (Metro 130) was about Redondo Av (called Route 131). They renamed Metro's 130 to LBT 141 as a result. Route 161 was considered as the new name. P.S. Long Beach Transit, ironically, had plans to split Line 130 at the Artesia station over 20 years ago. LBT wanted to acquire the eastern half of the 130 (from Artesia station to Fulleton), and the entirety of Line 128 (when it serviced Fullerton), as their routes.

I seen a homeless man trying to commit suicide by jumping in front of 3 car's and one bus.

Union Station itself is fine, it's mostly that Metro has given up on the red and purple lines. By the way, do you know how the other lines are like?

@lavital310

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure. I should take a look though

@AshmewStudios

Жыл бұрын

@@lavital310 based on what I’ve heard, the L (Gold) is the best line

@theghostofmrcow1985

Жыл бұрын

​@AshmewStudios I agree. The goldline seems calm and peaceful. Is the only line that goes to the suburbs in the San Gabriel Valley.

@alaplex100

Жыл бұрын

Your kidding.

@jonathannunez3325

Жыл бұрын

@@AshmewStudios never had issues on the gold line. the green,blue,purple,red,and expo are beyond sketchy. I do remember when expo line first opened it was actually safe and nice. now its beyond bad

going to LA this november and im worried about safety. taking an uber ia so expensive and would like to take public transpo. hope the city fixes this

@lavital310

2 ай бұрын

Just be safe and vigilant out there!

@mrxman581

Ай бұрын

The LA Metro is much better today. It's been improving over the last year. They've hired more security guards, cleaning crews, and transit ambassadors. You need to purchase a TAP card that costs $2 and add money to it. Last year, LA Metro switched to a capped fare system. It will cost you a maximum of $5 a day or $18 per week. The cost is $1.75 for a one-way ride with a 2 hour window of free transfers. Once you spend $5 in a day or $18 in a week, all your additional rides are free whether you use the light rail lines, subway lines, or bus lines. It's all one system referred to as the LA Metro. It's a little different from cities like NYC, Paris, or London, where Metro means subway lines only. Have a good time in LA. Don't be afraid to explore, but also be smart and informed.

Everytime a metro car stops at a station the Metro police should do a sweep to look for people sleeping or being a nusiance.

@mrxman581

Ай бұрын

There is nothing illegal about sleeping on the Metro. However, if they're a nuisance, yes. And that has been happening. I've seen security guards escorting people off the trains and platforms.

@onetruekeeper

Ай бұрын

@@mrxman581 People who are laying down on the seats sleeping is what I meant.

how was that not safe for the passengers in the train car? they were sleeping, what could they have done? i understand it not being safe for them, but saying they pose a threat while unconscious is ridiculous

@gabbogames9713

Жыл бұрын

Someone with common sense here

I thank you and other pages for showing the truth about Los Angeles and its metro to the whole world, I hope tourists from other countries can stay away from Los Angeles because it's been going downhill and the conditions in LA are very unsafe

Visited LA recently and metro definitely does not feel safe, clean or modern. Silver line for example are just buses, not trains! Heard city was building it for Olympics and World Cup. Not going to be good reflection unless they massively turn it around.

@Geotpf

Жыл бұрын

The city is building new transit throughout Los Angeles County, partly because of the Olympics, and partly because they have a dedicated funding source (part of the sales tax) to do so. They are trying to catch up with other major cities. There was basically no passenger rail in greater Los Angeles in 1990; now there's a lot, with more being built.

@mrxman581

11 ай бұрын

The silver line is only one of two dedicated bus lines. All the other LA Metro lines are either light rail or subway. Doesn't seem like you actually rode any of the rail lines. BTW, LA Metro opened a new line last year, and this year they opened a new underground line in DTLA a month ago. Next year they open a people mover at the airport that will connect directly to the metro.

Wwow that’s bad that’s not safe at all that’s not good . Do they have any plans to fix the metro systems there ?

@lavital310

3 күн бұрын

@@SharlenesJourney I honestly have no idea. I gotta get back over there soon and see what’s changed. There’s a newer video of that same station on my channel if you have time to check it out

@SharlenesJourney

3 күн бұрын

@@lavital310 I will Check it out I’ve been interested now on this topic after seeing this video I never knew it was so bad there

Why people can sleep inside the train...is this normal in America

I don't know how I will survive in LA coming from SLC Utah

Hi! I really liked the reality you showed in your video. I don't live in Los Angeles, could you tell me which lines are more dangerous and which ones I should avoid? Or some extra sugestion? Is Koeatown a dangerous neighborhood?

@Park_Place

11 ай бұрын

-Stay away from the Red and Purple Lines. -Avoid the legacy Blue Line (7th Street/Metro Center to Downtown Long Beach). If you have to take it, proceed with caution. -Stay alert on the Green Line and new Expo Line as well as the Harbor Freeway Station stop on the Silver Line. -Little to no precautions needed on northern half of the legacy Gold Line (Union Station to APU/Citrus College), K Line, and Orange Line.

@lavital310

3 ай бұрын

Agreed!

It’s sad-this is a side of L A that I have never seen-quite shocking !!

There's no security at all !!!! People can just walk on the trains without proof of fare and this is what happens. Back in the 90s we had LAPD, LA Sheriff deputies, ticket checkers and on the blue line ,LONG BEACH PD. Nothing like today. This is embarrassing and a disgrace.

@mrxman581

4 ай бұрын

Not true at all. You are a liar! In fact, in the 90s there weren't even turnstiles at any stations. It was on the honor system. Also, LA Metro originally had it's own in-house security force. It was only years later that they contracted out. BTW, LA Metro is currently patrolled by the Los Angeles Police Department, Long Beach Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. In addition, you have LA Metro security and ambassadors. LA Metro is using ALL OF THESE GROUPS RIGHT NOW!

Straining to the eye.

As a local citizen of LA and a daily metro,user i must say it’s getting worse everyday in public the homeless problem is growing rapidly day by day and the trains are no longer safe to use..i only take the expo and green line on the daily bases and sense they go Thur some of the worst neighborhoods in LA the homeless and drug addicts use the trains as shelter .it is no longer safe to bring ur kids around trying to take,them somewhere special on ah fixed income even tho it’s expensive ur better off taking a Uber or even useing a bike or electric scooter etc rather taking metro and it’s sad me living in south central LA and growing up and seeing how much worse it has gotten and the city does nothing about it all they do is talk out there ass n mention what they plan to,do far as making it safer but no action after all these years cause it was nothing like this when I was a kid smfh

The neglect is overwhelming

The new trains are coming to the Red and Purple line and who knows if they ruin them as well

The title and thumbnail of this video are misleading. None of the terrible things you show in the video are actually in Union Station. Clearly plenty of terrible stuff on the trains and Metro in general but Union Station is just fine.

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@futureintyumen3110

Жыл бұрын

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San Fernando Valley resident here: A rather dark video, but it's not as dangerous as you're trying to portray. First, all that time you spent in the stairways of the subway stations is misleading. I've ridden the subway many times, and not once have I used those stairways. Riders wouldn't even know where they are. I've probably seen the doors but not once decided to go through them. The only time one would use them is if the station was on fire and you had to escape. In looking at your video, I didn't see the subway stations on fire, so really, you had no business going in them. As far as transients on the trains, that's a problem, but the incidents you showed was an aberration. I've never seen anyone lying on their back on the seats like they're dead. But really, if they cleaned out the trains of all passengers every time a train reached the end of the line and then went the other way, transients wouldn't be on the trains going back and forth all day. The last time I was on the subway was this past Saturday. It was fairly clean with some transients, but they're not going to kill you. As far Los Angeles being unsafe, it's not any more unsafe than an average U.S. city. The reason I say that is I've lived here almost all my life, and I'm still alive. Not once have I've been harmed or robbed. That said, tourists and residents can't be too careless, but that's true everywhere.

@Alex_catz

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, ride the blue line weekly, and it ain't that bad, I've only ridden the red line a few times, but from what I've seen myself, it checks out

@roachtoasties

Жыл бұрын

@@Alex_catz In watching this again, I'm wondering if some of this was staged. I don't know, but it could be.

@Alex_catz

Жыл бұрын

@@roachtoasties i dont think it is, been on the red line at 5:30 to catch a metrolink train to OC, and i took the red line from 7th street, and it looked mostly like this, but it was really early in the day, so mostly expected.

@lavital310

Жыл бұрын

Lol this is not staged whatsoever. This is what it’s really like there. Go there this week and tell me what you see

@Geotpf

Жыл бұрын

The stairways shown were emergency exits or employee areas only. Now, as such, they should still be kept clean, and clearly aren't, but the main areas that a passenger would visit on a normal day are kept much cleaner.

Awfully. We, here in Russia, can't even imagine such disgusting things like that.

at 2:33 , bro they just be talkin, is it now illegal to talk in public? Also, as someone who takes the blue line twice a week, i dosent look that bad, you're overstating it, and its a bit misleading.

@MitchellBPYao

2 ай бұрын

Headphones on

Vigilant, yes. Vigilante, no.

Los Angeles needs to upzone the whole city. We're in a well-documented housing shortage yet we've arbitrarily made it illegal to build more homes on 75% of the city's land. That's insane. It's why we have high rent prices, the worst overcrowding in the country, and mass homelessness here.

I avoid the red line like the plague. The subway is probably the grossest train system I've seen in L.A. county and it hasnt always bern like this. Its actually sad.

@mrxman581

Ай бұрын

It's improved a lot in the last 10 months. They have more security, cleaning crews, and transit ambassadors.

This is simply not a complete portrayal of Union Station. There are definitely major issues the city is not addressing, however you’re not giving the whole picture. You entered Union Station through the back entrance. You only shot at one time of day. And you even mentioned a staircase “you’re not supposed to be in.” I get your message, but it’s bad journalism.

@lavital310

Жыл бұрын

Those staircases are emergency exits. I’m pretty sure it’s fair to make everyone aware that if you have to escape a fire through those stairs you’re going to encounter slipping 💩 hazards. And I’m not a journalist lol

@SirClerihew

Жыл бұрын

Molo, absolutely nothing excuses what he saw in the train cars themselves. That’s unacceptable at any part of the day.

@mrxman581

11 ай бұрын

​@@SirClerihewpeople sleeping? How dangerous is that? Completely overblown.

@mrxman581

11 ай бұрын

​@@lavital310that's good you don't consider yourself a journalist. Yes, the emergency stairwells you were not supposed to be in were filthy but it doesn't mean you couldn't get out of there in case of an emergency. BTW, you would be surprised what you would find in your local fast food restaurant kitchen, but I'm sure you enjoy eating at them on a regular basis.

@lavital310

11 ай бұрын

@@mrxman581 I never said you couldn’t get through there during an emergency. I said it wasn’t safe. Don’t you agree that walking through feces and urine can be dangerous during an emergency!

This video has a complete negative bias. Its laughable. First, almost no one comes into Union Station from the side this dude did. Second, he went into the emergency exit areas which no one goes into except, I guess, homeless and this dude. Third, you do have more homeless on the trains because of Covid. LA Metro was not enforcing fares during Covid. That started changing in 2023. They have started a couple of new programs to deal with both safety and security issues as of May 2023. Fourth, if yoy pay attention, you see the actual stations and trains are relatively clean. LA Metro just opened three new stations in DTLA last month. And it continue to grow and improve. BTW, nany of the worst issues with the homeless have only happened since Covid in 2020 and LA is not alone in this issue. This video only shows the sad truth, but that's the minority of the complete truth.

They are alot of bums on agreesive they get like that when you don't a give a them money

We should get rid of all public transport. Have driverless cars take everyone everywhere. That’ll solve traffic.

Democratic laws protect these bums

@VulcanLogic

11 ай бұрын

Should we go back to selling vagrants into debt peonage?

@migamilan

18 күн бұрын

Democracy means rule by the people. The word comes from the ancient Greek words 'demos' (the people) and 'kratos' (to rule). A democratic country has a system of government where people have the power to participate in decision-making.

Democrat City in America 🇺🇸 😳 Los Angeles California 😢😢😢😢

I think LA in general is a mess, can’t wait til me and my wife to move out of this city and state

@lavital310

Жыл бұрын

I feel you on that one

@VulcanLogic

11 ай бұрын

Come to Orange County (east of the 55). It's really nice here, even the Metrolink commuter rail is good.

I dare you to sleep there for 24 hours (exit area) lmao

Deberían prohibir la vagancia, están en el país más rico del mundo,no se justifica que esa gente solo se drorgue y haga de su vida un infierno, y además la gente que si trabaja, tenga que soportar sus olores y su presencia asquerosa

@lavital310

Жыл бұрын

I think what you said was good? Haha English speaker over here

@cepreupupkin2218

Жыл бұрын

@@lavital310 He said: They should ban vagrancy, they are in the richest country in the world, there is no excuse for these people just getting drunk and turning their lives into hell, and besides, people who, if they work, have to put up with their smells and their disgusting presence

@lavital310

Жыл бұрын

@@cepreupupkin2218 he’s right!

Millennials were mean to me after the recession when I was homeless. They're gonna get there's that's real dumb of them.

Democratic laws protect these bums