Westwood / Rancho Park

Great connections to local buses. Too many ppl who don't know where to put a bike. Too many folks like to express their love of music with speakers.

No parking. It is also not legal to park on the streets nearby most of the time. Why a station would be built in a low density neighborhood without parking or connections to other metro lines is a mystery to me.

It's a good station. Just lock your bike up really well!

It’s too much time 15 miles in One hour, Santa Monica to downtown. It’s in a half an hour drive.

It's a Fairly safe station.

Exit this station for L.A. DPSS (social services)

Very clean station!

Awesome

Looks like this station needs an updated review! The Westwood/Rancho Park Station is an outside train stop and platform where the E Line runs through. It's a small transfer station to catch the Big Blue Bus R12 towards Westwood and the UCLA campus. The station looks like any surface station, you can use your TAP card and pay your fare at the scanning machine. Then you walk onto the platform and wait for your train. The E Train runs often, with a train coming through about every 10-15 minutes during daytime hours. The estimate to get to and from this station after a transfer from L.A. Union Station is about 1 hour. To get to the Big Blue Bus bus stop, just walk past the tracks, cross the street at the light, and you can catch the bus there. A conveinent station for desinations to Westwood.

I really enjoy taking the metro rail from the west with Rancho Park station down to fourth street near the beach. It's so easy to park your car closer to home and just take the train down rather than dealing with traffic and parking. I've never had a problem since the metro line worked so often.

Best part of this station is Metro's station manager and attendant, Cole, who warmly greets customers in the morning and assists customers with paying fares and general way-finding. Having Cole at Westwood Rancho Park Station is indeed an improvement to customer service. Metro should consider maintaining station managers and/or attendants at every station throughout the day. Station attendants such as Cole are not only useful to customers finding their way, but they become full of knowledge of the actual use of the station that could be useful to Metro such as the natural customer circulation patterns around the station. Besides, having a nice human being at the stations, adds a personal touch - an great notch up in customer experience! Kudos to Metro! Nice touch at the station - On a warm late-summer morning, a pleasant breeze brings a scent of California coastal sage brush through the platform area. Tips: 1 - To get here, take Big Blue Bus routes 8 (stops at nearly all) or route R12 (stops at big intersections only). TAP passes accepted. Fifth star will be added when: 1 - a convenience shop is located nearby (within a sprinting distance to platform) to buy a small coffee or magazine in the unfortunate but likely event of a lengthy train delay; 2 - when connecting bus arrivals along Westwood Blvd. are so frequent that disappointment for lengthy public transit trip or train delay is mitigated by no wait time for a bus or the possibility of taking a short bus ride to shops on Pico/Westwood; 3 - circulation into station is improved with entrances from Overland Ave. side of the station as well.

Trains are almost always full going both directions, and almost always late. It takes almost an hour to get to DTLA... way too slow. The seats are extra uncomfortable and there is no wifi on the train.