For those of who bike to the K Line, good news: bike lockers are now available at the following stations: Expo/Crenshaw MLK Jr. Leimart Park Fairview Heights Downtown Inglewood Lockers [continue reading]
One of our long-standing goals is to make it easier for all people to travel to and from our stations — including cyclists. In many cases, that means offering convenient and safe bike parking options for commuters. So we’ve been working to improve our bike parking program and will soon [continue reading]
The Expo Line to Santa Monica opens on Friday, May 20, adding seven new stations between Culver City and Santa Monica. Take heed: Parking along the extension is very limited with just 544 [continue reading]
The Expo Line to Santa Monica opens on Friday, May 20, adding seven new stations between Culver City and Santa Monica. Take heed: Parking along the extension is very limited with just 544 [continue reading]
Bicyclists and others interested in hearing updates on a range of Metro bicycle initiatives within L.A. County are invited to participate in the agency’s next Bicycle Roundtable this Thursday, February 12. Meeting details and and agenda are below: Save the date! The next Bicycle Roundtable is scheduled for: Thursday, February [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Have bike, will ride train — if only Metro will provide bike lockers (L.A. Times) Good opinion piece by Nicolas Goldberg. His dilemma: he wants [continue reading]
In a recent NPR – Marketplace story, travel writer Patrick Symmes talks about an experiment he’s conducting with bikes and GPS trackers — you see Symmes has had seven bikes stolen, and he’d had enough! In a lengthy write-up for Outside magazine, the journalist attaches GPS trackers to ‘bait’ bikes [continue reading]
Metro staff on Monday issued two interesting studies that attempt for the first time to quantify how many people are using bikes to access the Orange Line busway and Metro Rail. The studies also try to estimate the amount of greenhouse gases not being emitted because of people using bikes [continue reading]
The area’s bike community has long clamored for better parking facilities from the powers-that-be in city and county government. A recent post from L.A. StreetsBlog complained about the risks of parking bikes in Downtown L.A. — the problem being the bikes may be intentionally removed by property owners. Metro has [continue reading]
