During “Bike Week L.A.” in May, Metro announced that it planned to remove peak hour restrictions for bikes on its rail lines. Metro’s news release reported “This summer Metro plans on lifting these restrictions on bike travel on Metro Rail once directional signs are installed to steer bikes to certain [continue reading]
The next meeting of Metro’s Bicycle Roundtable Stakeholders is next Wednesday. If you’re intersted in attending, please RSVP by this Friday, the 6th. The roundtables are a chance for those interested in cycling issues to delve into the nitty gritty of bike policy at Metro, including issues such as funding [continue reading]
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), in partnership with CALSTART, a non-profit advanced transportation consortium, will be conducting a survey to determine public interest in folding bicycle use with transit at five Metro stations throughout L.A. County July 20 through 28. Surveys will be given to transit riders [continue reading]
Most readers have probably heard that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — who also serves on the Board of Directors of Metro — was in a weekend bicycle accident in which he broke his elbow. It was a serious enough injury to warrant surgery, which according to the mayor’s office [continue reading]
Following on the heels of Metro’s new Bicycle Roundtable meetings, the agency will host a Bicycle Design Workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, June 2) to give planners, engineers and bicycle advocates in L.A. County a primer on design principles and practices for bicycle planning. The workshop, called “Designing Streets to Increase Bicycling,” [continue reading]
As Bike Week comes to a close we present a list of 10 great blogs that cover bikes as the fantastic form of transportation that they are. Sure bikes are fun and make for a great workout – but they also happen to be an easy and eco-friendly way to [continue reading]
We’re working on coming up with a list of essential “bikes-as-transportation” blogs to celebrate Bike Week and to round off our collection of essential blogs lists. In the past we’ve made lists for essential Los Angeles transportation blogs, essential transportation blogs that aren’t specific to L.A. and essential transit agency [continue reading]
To close out Bike Week I’d like to round up the 10 best bikes-as-transportation blogs out there. I say bikes-as-transportation because largely bikes are seen as tools for recreation and fitness (and sometimes as nothing more than children’s playthings) not as serious tools for mobility – for that the glory [continue reading]
The culmination of Bike Week has got to be Bike to Work Day – that one day of the year when every commuter is encouraged to leave the car at home and use a little pedal power to get to the ol’ 9 to 5. Some, like local bicycle activist [continue reading]
It’s not everyday that bicyclists get a police escort through the traffic-choked streets of downtown Los Angeles during the a.m. rush hour. But this morning, a group of about 75 cyclists were given the royal treatment when the LAPD bike police escorted riders through downtown for Metro’s 2nd Annual Downtown [continue reading]
