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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.
