Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bike Sharing

Metro Board July Updates: Joint Development, Bike-Share, and More

By Joe Linton | Jul 23, 2015 | No Comments

Today’s monthly Metro Board of Directors meeting saw the chair transition from L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. Incoming Chair Ridley-Thomas expounded on his priorities for the current fiscal year. The July board meeting did not feature any major controversies, but there are a number of items likely to be of interest […]

Bike-Share Round-Up: Multiple Motions At Tomorrow’s Metro Board Meeting

By Joe Linton | Jul 22, 2015 | No Comments

Last month, after a fairly lengthy debate, the Metro Board of Directors approved an $11 million contract to bring bike-share to downtown Los Angeles. Though there is a lot of interest in bike-share on the Metro board, there is not a lot of agreement on exactly how to move forward. Though Metro bike-share, run by […]

After Contentious Discussion, Metro Board Approves Bike-Share Contract

By Joe Linton | Jun 25, 2015 | 8 Comments

This morning, the Metro Board of Directors approved its $11 million contract with Bicycle Transit Systems to install and operate a pilot downtown L.A. bike-share system. The downtown system is expected to debut in 2016 with 60+stations and 1,000+bicycles. The road getting this far has been a bit messy. The cities of Santa Monica and Long Beach […]

Opinion: Let Bike-Share Flourish in DTLA, Santa Monica, and Long Beach

By Joe Linton | Jun 25, 2015 | 6 Comments

Earlier this week, we ran an editorial by Assemblymember Richard Bloom with other Westside elected officials calling on Metro to “delay its decision” on a 1,000-bike bike-share system slated to open in downtown Los Angeles in early 2016. Metro has the bike-share contract on its board meeting agenda for today; it was approved by Metro’s planning committee approved last week. […]

Guest Opinion: Metro’s Proposal on Bike-share Heads in the Wrong Direction

By Richard Bloom, John Heilman and William Brien | Jun 23, 2015 | 15 Comments

Greater Los Angeles is about to join cities and regions around the world that have implemented bike-share programs. But, in our complicated world of 88 cities and a county, will we get it right? Bike-share provides residents and visitors with easily accessible, shared, short-term bikes, making it easy to get from point A to point B, whether or […]

Metro Planning Committee Approves Bike-Share Contract

By Joe Linton and Jason Islas | Jun 18, 2015 | 13 Comments

As expected, at yesterday’s meeting the Metro Planning and Programming Committee approved the contract for the first phase of Metro bike-share. The final approval is now expected at next Thursday’s meeting of the full Metro board of directors. The initial phase of Metro bike-share will be located in downtown Los Angeles, extending from Union Station […]

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