World’s top pop star, Taylor Swift, will give six concerts at SoFi Stadium, and Metro wants Swifties to take transit.
, the transit agency is extending a hand as part of a strategy to woo riders onto trains and buses, potentially as many as 420,000 Taylor Swift concert-goers.• Train lines A, B, D, E, C and K will run until 2 a.m. to accommodate Swifties after the concerts. Normally, trains stop running around midnight. The last trains on the rail network will depart downtown Los Angeles at the 7th/Metro Center station at 2 a.m. on concert nights.
Metro points the way, using old and brand new train lines and late-night operations, mixed with the special shuttles: Allie Priore, 32, who lives in Burbank, has tickets for the Aug. 9 concert. A self-described Swiftie, Priorie said Swift’s concerts are more than musical performances, and are cultural events that can draw those without tickets to arrive as well. They spill into parking lots and nearby bridges, and even ride together with those who’ve seen the show on trains and buses, often breaking out in song.
Priore has seen Swift perform live three times, including at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in 2018. She hasn’t seen so much use of mass transit in Southern California, at least not yet, but said fans are talking about using Metro to reach SoFi, which she said is a difficult venue to navigate by automobile.
Critics on social media say Metro should extend trains every night to 2 a.m. but that practice was halted during the pandemic years. And they say Metro should provide SoFi shuttles to all events at the Inglewood stadium. Priore said there are videos on YouTube and Tiktok of Swifties using mass transit. Metro said it built its plan based on concert-goers, often millennials and usually consisting of more women than men, who take subways to and from venues in New Jersey and other areas in the Northeast.
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