"Around El Paso" Top 5 Page for this destination El Paso Transportation Tip by matcrazy1

El Paso offers probably better city transportation than many other US cities (follow the link below) but I used exclusively my feet walking around downtown and my hired car to get there and to far neighbourhoods. El Paso East Motel 6, I stayed in, is located 10 miles east of downtown.

I had no problem to find a place to park a car in downtown (map here), and I didn't pay a lot ($2 or $3). In old European cities we have narrow, one-way streets jammed with parked cars in limited parking zone (or there is closed for traffic area) and we have constant shortage of parking place. Forget about it in El Paso. Half of downtown is a parking lot that is very American. There are numerous multistore and underground parking lots, and you may park along wide streets, too. Well, you have to pay, but not much. It's not San Francisco in over-taxed California where parking costs above $40 a day :-).

If you want to use public city transportation keep in mind that in El Paso (and generally the USA) you don't have just trams, buses etc. but usually each type of transportation has own proper name used widely by locals and derived from a company which runs it. So, in El Paso don't ask how to get from A to B by bus but ask about Sun Metro or Sun Metro Trolley. Trolley in the USA is an electric streetcar, elsewhere known as a tramway but in El Paso it's just city public bus (not a trolleybus).

Mode: AROUND
othercontact: +1 (915) 534 0601
Phone: +1 (800) 351 6024 toll free
Type: Car/Motor Home
Website: http://www.visitelpaso.com/transportation.sstg