For the 17th straight year, Metro will be participating in Bike to Work Day (Thursday, May 19) as part of Bike Week LA from May 16 through May 20. The events take place in May, but you can gear up for Bike Week by signing up now for the following [continue reading]
The latest dispatch from Streetfilms — a member of the Streetsblog family — attempts to answer the fundamental questions of Los Angeles’ newfangled open streets event: What is CicLAvia? Why is it important? And what can you do when the streets are turned over from automobiles to people? Check out [continue reading]
Here’s a good post on Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s website about the effort to make room for more bikes on Metro Rail. Excerpt: Sunday’s CicLAvia ride through Los Angeles streets was not just a test of the city’s ability to embrace a car-free existence for a few hours. It also was [continue reading]
Metro plans to remove the peak hour restrictions for bikes on Metro trains, and will present a recommendation to the Board of Director’s Operations Subcommittee on April 21. The committee item, available here, recommends the removal of the weekday 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. [continue reading]
From the saddle of my 17-year-old mountain bike, it sure looked like the second edition of CicLAvia was a big success on Sunday. The crowds seemed larger than the premiere event last October and the weather was perfect. It also looked like plenty of people, including yours truly, used Metro [continue reading]
photo by lasubwayblog, via Flickr CicLAvia is this Sunday, April 10, and although more than three dozen Metro Bus Lines will be detoured along the nearly eight-mile route that day, Metro is an enthusiastic supporter of the event. L.A. streets will be closed to cars except for key intersections, and [continue reading]
The time has come for L.A.’s second CicLAvia. This Sunday, April 10, bicyclists, pedestrians, joggers and skateboarders are expected to converge in the Downtown L.A. area for the nearly eight mile ride between Boyle Heights and East Hollywood. The event route will be the same as the first CicLAvia last [continue reading]
Here’s some awesome news for anyone who wants to include bikeways in new or existing transportation, trip planning and geographic analysis tools in L.A. County. Metro has officially released all of its bikeway data gathered from 88 cities at http://developer.metro.net. The data, following on the agency’s previous release of its [continue reading]
Metro’s Bicycle Program has recently undergone a management change that is designed to bolster agency efforts to make L.A.’s transit system friendlier to bicycle commuters. Metro’s Bicycle Program is now under the leadership of Diego Cardoso, an executive officer within the planning department who also directs Metro’s pedestrian, transportation demand [continue reading]
Don’t forget Metro’s next Bicycle Roundtable meeting is Friday, Nov. 5, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Metro headquarters, which is adjacent to Union Station. This roundtable will introduce new program staff, provide a status report from earlier subcommittee meetings on policy and planning and the discuss the bike parking [continue reading]
