I know I've already touched a viral point discussing LA public transit once this week, but the easiest hack to immediately avoid this is to take the Fly Away Bus for 25 bucks and just Uber from either of those stations.
It’s tough… you try and be a defender of LA public transit and then you attempt to use it and you wait 35 minutes for a metro line that should be turning with some regularity and it’s like, how are you meant to introduce this to people when this is the product?