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Today, City Council President Eric Garcetti announced two motions he is putting forward. If you know the biking community, you know these two proposals came from Garcetti listening to the community as the problems/solutions here are often heard within the cycling community. From a Garcetti press release:
- Garcetti introduced a resolution to urge the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to repeal its ban on allowing cyclists to ride the Metro lines during rush hour. Currently, bicycles are not allowed on the trains between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. as well as 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on weekdays. Garcetti’s motion requests that Metro also consider removing seats on some Metro line cars to make the trains more comfortable for passengers traveling with or without bicycles.
- "He also introduced a motion that would implement a pilot program to mark streets with “sharrows”-– Caltrans-approved shared lane markings on the pavement between the parking lane and traffic. These are different from bike lanes in that they direct the cyclist to travel outside the car door zone to prevent accidents caused by parked cars. The pilot program would install sharrows along Vermont Avenue between Hollywood Boulevard and 4th Street as well as Fountain Avenue between the 101 freeway and Hoover Street. Sharrows are currently used in San Francisco."
Earlier this year, Garcetti helped make city facilities more bicycle friendly.
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NO WAY!!! Oh man, we need sharrows on Fountain and Vermont. I use both of these when commuting!!!
Oh man, I would be SO EXCITED.
Yeah, Fountain would be helpful. How 'bout a bike lane or 'sharrow' somewhere to connect this Fountain lane with the beginning of the Santa Monica Blvd. lane in WeHo.
Speaking with a co-worker who also commutes by bike, the city needs a bike ONLY bus that travels the Sepulveda Pass. Cyclists are having to wait two or three buses to get on because the bike racks are full.
Great idea lost feliz re: 761 and other busses that go over the hill via the 405/Sepulveda!
sharrows or Huntington Drive too!
do they actually enforce the "no bikes during rush hour" rule? the gold line is packed with bikes during rush hour.
I rarely saw enforcement of the no bikes rule on the blue and green lines when I took them from downtown to El Segundo last year.
(singing)
I'm gone git some Sharrows in mah 'hood
I'm gone git some Sharrows in mah 'hood
I'm gone git some Sharrows in mah 'hood
I'm gone git some Sharrows in mah 'hood
You don't got no Sharrows in yo hood...
Chris 76 -- Since the Gold Line has the lowest ridership of the Metro Rail lines, the ban does not apply to the Gold Line...at least not yet.
I've advocated that one for a quite a while. Even spoke up at city council meetings in my corner of LA to make them put the pressure on.
Bikes and anything to make it better isn't on the agenda in Monrovia and should be.
The gold line needs to be on target for it now. What a great way to increase ridership, give someone a chance to bike a few blocks to an office instead of use a bus.