Bike Sharing
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Metro Friday Newsbits: Toilets, El Monte Bike Hub, and Bike-Share Limbo
Metro Bike Share on month-to-month extensions, El Monte bike hub smashed again, and Metro expanding easy-to-use Throne toilets
August 1, 2025
Metro Quietly Withdraws Lyft Bike-Share Contract Vote
The current twice-botched will-they-won't-they procurement process is not doing Metro Bike Share any favors.
May 22, 2025
Metro Operations Committee Approves Lyft Bike-Share Contract
The Metro Operations Committee unanimously approved a five-year $200M contract with Lyft to operate Metro Bike Share
May 15, 2025
Bike-Share Should Belong to the People Who Need It Most
If we want bike-share to thrive, we have to treat it as the public good it is. That means public investment, strong labor standards, meaningful community partnerships, and deep respect for the people who make the system work.
May 13, 2025
Lyft’s Anti-Worker Anti-Transit Record Raises Red Flags For Metro Bike Share
Edwin Aviles and Kalayaan Mendoza urge Metro not to reward bad actors working to undermine workers’ rights and mass transit
May 7, 2025
Metro Cancels Bike-Share Procurement that Had Led to Proposed Lyft Contract
Metro will continue with the current contractor, Philadelphia-based Bicycle Transit Systems (BTS), for the forseeable future
March 29, 2024
This Week’s Metro Updates: Open Streets, MicroTransit, Bike-Share, and More
Open Streets grants, Metro Micro fares, Metro Bike Share, MacArthur Park interventions spreading, transit ridership up with crime down, and soon to be no longer West Santa Ana Branch
January 19, 2024
SGV Connect 119: GoSGV E-Bike-Share and Carribean Fragoza’s Scary Bike Crash
Take a bike ride down South El Monte's Rush Street with writer Carribean Fragoza - and get the latest on ActiveSGV's e-bike rental program GoSGV
October 24, 2023
Metro Bike Share – It’s Time to be Bold
Looking to our future as a region, bikeshare will increasingly become a critical addition to meet the needs of our city’s travelers
Eli Lipmen
July 24, 2023
Association of Governments Awards Metro $41.7M in Transportation Grants
In other parts of California, REAP grant funds are building transit-oriented housing, while in L.A. the focus appears to be on reducing (or mostly making plans to reduce) vehicle miles traveled
July 7, 2023
