The town of Long Beach has five main Class 1 bike paths (separate off-street bike paths) inside its boundaries, encompassing over 60 miles (97 km). Although a couple of radio stations have had studios in Long Beach through the years, including the 1980s different music and later arduous rock station KNAC, the one remaining radio stations in Long Beach are the jazz and blues station KKJZ on the Cal State Long Beach campus, and the Christian radio broadcaster KFRN. Starting in 2007, Long Beach was served by its own The District Weekly, an alternative weekly that covered information, the arts, eating places, and the native music scene. Historically, the city was served by Pacific Electric trains, including the Long Beach Line and a number of other native streetcars. Southeast Long Beach is served by the San Gabriel River Freeway (I-605), which joins the San Diego Freeway at the Long Beach/Los Alamitos border. Route 1, from Long Beach to San Clemente is the longest bus route within the OCTA system. The Long Beach Freeway (I-710) runs north-south on the city’s western border, with its southern terminus adjacent to the Port of Long Beach on Terminal Island at the intersection of the Terminal Island Freeway (SR 103) and State Route 47. The Long Beach Freeway is the main spur route serving Long Beach from downtown Los Angeles, with its northern terminus near downtown Los Angeles in Alhambra.
Long Beach Airport serves the Long Beach, South Bay and northern Orange County areas. Orange County Transportation Authority affords restricted bus service to Orange County. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the nearest airport with international service. The Metro A Line additionally gives connections to the Metro E Line at the seventh Street/Metro Center Station, Pico Station, Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill station, Historic Broadway station, and Little Tokyo/Arts District station with service to Santa Monica and East Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) operates the Metro A Line, a light rail service that runs between the Downtown Long Beach Station (known as the Transit Mall Station until July 2013) and the APU/Citrus College station in Azusa (extension to Pomona-North Metrolink station in 2025) by way of Los Angeles Union Station and Del Mar station in Pasadena. The Metro A Line Maintenance Shops are also in Long Beach simply south of the Del Amo Blue Line station.
Long Beach’s daily newspaper is the Long Beach Press-Telegram, which is distributed throughout most of the Gateway Cities and South Bay areas of southwest Los Angeles County. Torrance Transit gives bus service to the South Bay. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) affords bus service to San Pedro. Amtrak Thruway offers bus shuttles starting in San Pedro, with stops at the Queen Mary and downtown Long Beach, that then goes to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, and ends in Bakersfield. Long Beach Transit regularly operates 38 bus routes. Most common service bus routes begin or end on the Long Beach Transit Mall in downtown Long Beach. Long Beach, California has two public establishments dedicated to larger education: California State University, Long Beach and Long Beach City College. In accordance with the 2016 American Community Survey, 73.6 percent of working residents of Long Beach commuted by driving alone, 10.2 percent carpooled, 6.2 p.c used public transportation, and 3.4 percent walked. Long Beach Transit supplies local public transportation providers inside Long Beach, Lakewood, and Signal Hill. Taxicabs in Long Beach serve the tourism and convention business and local services similar to for elderly and disabled residents. With $1 fares, the AquaBus serves six different places throughout the downtown Long Beach waterfront.
Long Beach was the nation’s first giant metropolis to chill out restrictions on cabs by allowing them to offer variable, discounted fares, free rides and other worth promotions to lure prospects whereas holding maximum fares in place. The western portion of the Garden Grove Freeway (SR 22) offers a spur off of the San Diego and 605 Freeways to seventh Street in southeast Long Beach for entry to the VA Long Beach Healthcare System, California State University, Long Beach, and the Alamitos Bay. Along with the Harbor Freeway (I-110) to the west, the Long Beach Freeway is one in all the major routes for trucks transporting goods from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to railyards and distribution centers in downtown Los Angeles and the Inland Empire. The southern end of the Long Beach Freeway joins Long Beach with Terminal Island via the Gerald Desmond Bridge. The Artesia Freeway (SR 91) runs east-west near the northern border of Long Beach. The San Diego Freeway additionally supplies regional entry to Long Beach Airport, which is on the north facet of the freeway near Signal Hill. Although not based in Long Beach, the alternative weeklies OC Weekly and LA Weekly are distributed extensively in Long Beach.