With the First Street Bridge now closed for the next month, the MTA has a useful map for how to get between the Civic Center/Little Tokyo area and Boyle Heights. Here it is.
Steve Hymon is The Times' Road Sage. He covers traffic and transportation in a region united by a confounding network of freeways that frustrate drivers daily. The Bottleneck Blog is Steve's website home, where he breaks transportation news, reports on traffic tie-ups and brings a critical but humorous eye to commuting in Southern California. You can reach Steve at steve.hymon@latimes.com.