Today marks the beginning of Bike Week LA and Thursday is the annual bike-to-work day. So it seems appropriate to kick off the week with a PSA from Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck, with a gentle reminder that everyone needs to be mindful of cyclists and their right [continue reading]
With Bike to Work Day coming net week, the city of San Francisco has been increasing its bike infrastructure around town. One of the recently-completed projects was to paint a bike lane on Market Street. Streetsblog San Francisco has a nice post. Excerpt: Papandreou and his team noted that even [continue reading]
Starting today, May 11, Metro consultants are planning to converge on 20 Metro Rail stations throughout L.A. County to conduct bike surveys and counts. They will be out there for three weeks, so if you’re a bicyclist who rides Metro, help them out and fill out a survey. Metro’s trying [continue reading]
Bike Week LA begins May 17 — a week from Monday. Here’s the press release from Metro with info on the wide array of activities during the week: CHANCE TO WIN PRIZES FOR THOSE WHO PLEDGE TO RIDE THEIR BIKE TO WORK METRO PROMOTES ARRAY OF ACTIVITIES DURING “BIKE WEEK [continue reading]
Ara Najarian, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Metro and the mayor of Glendale, wrote the following on the bike parking situation at the new transit-oriented development being built just west of downtown Los Angeles: Last week’s groundbreaking of the Westlake/MacArthur Park joint development project was an important [continue reading]
This week Metro, with the help of volunteers, is set to conduct a study of the Metro Orange Line to document the environmental sustainability benefits that the dedicated bus rapid transit line and bikeway have generated since 2005. Here’s a link to a previous post. The study will survey riders [continue reading]
Google announced today that it’s offering yet another transportation mode to its robust Google Maps tool set. Now bicyclists will be able to get turn-by-turn directions in the familiar Google style that drivers, pedestrians and transit users have grown accustomed to. In addition, a new graphical layer has been added [continue reading]
In December, Metro postponed its call for volunteers to do an official bike study on the Valley’s Orange Line – the only bus rapid transit line in the county with its own dedicated bike path. Well, spring has arrived, and this study is now scheduled for the end of March. [continue reading]
Officials on Wednesday heralded a new day for bike-to-transit integration with the opening of two new BikeStations on transit lines, an innovative solution likely to be eyed very closely in other cities. Bikestation Claremont and BikeStation Covina, both located at stations on Metrolink’s San Bernardino Line, are fundamentally different than [continue reading]
Last Friday was a busy one at One Gateway, Metro’s headquarters in Los Angeles. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Sen. Barbara Boxer were here for a town hall meeting and Metro also hosted its first bicycle roundtable, which I missed. The idea, in essence, was for Metro to listen [continue reading]
