Two Monsters and Two Politicians Fix a Bike. Insert Your Own Joke Here.
Metro kicked off its celebration of Bike to Work Week at the Universal City Rail Station earlier this morning. LA City Councilmembers Tom LaBonge and Wendy Greuel and Metro Board member Ara Najaraian joined Shrek and The Mummy in giving a demonstration on basic bike maintenance and speaking to the press about the importance of bicycles to our county's transportation. Bonus points to LaBonge for actually biking to the Bike to Work event.
I'm still not sure about how having an undead three thousand year old monster bumping into people's bikes and snarling at them is the best way to promote cycling, but the event itself was a lighter promotional event designed to be a media friendly reminder that cycling is the right choice for traveling when possible. I think it worked...four television cameras and the Daily News Streetsblog in covering the event.
The recently installed 1.25-mile long bikeway spans Lincoln Park Avenue, Flora Avenue, and Sierra Street - it's arguably the first new bike facility of the Measure HLA era
Brightline West will be a 218-mile 186-mile-per-hour rail line from Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga - about 40 miles east of downtown L.A. - expected to open in 2028