Transportation news for Santa Monica.
Update: Hulu bike-share sponsorship was approved by the Santa Monica City Council at its October 13 meeting. The Santa Monica-based online entertainment company, Hulu, may become the “presenting sponsor” of Santa Monica’s Breeze Bike Share, L.A. County’s first public bike-share…
Don’t forget that this Sunday is your chance to learn about all the exciting goings-on in Vancouver around the emerging bike culture there. Join us at 5 p.m. at 1640 5th Street in Downtown Santa Monica for food, drinks, and…
With Expo Phase 2 on schedule to open less than a year, things are really starting to coalesce. Most recently, we got a glimpse of the future: Expo Phase 2 bikeway in Santa Monica has been painted and is looking very much…
Streetsblog Los Angeles editor Joe Linton contributed to this report. What do you get when dozens of transportation professionals, technologists, and others interested in improving urban transportation networks all in one room at UCLA on a Saturday morning? The answer…
Santa Monica Next and our community partners have two exciting events this month, so make sure you mark your calendar. On Sunday, October 11, at 5 p.m., join Santa Monica Next and Santa Monica Spoke for food, drinks, and a fun look…
Due to popular demand, CycleHop, the company running Santa Monica’s Breeze bike-share program, will extend the testing period past the October 1 date it was originally scheduled to end. Breeze, which is on track to be L.A. County’s first public…
This article originally ran on Streetsblog California. A new law just signed by Governor Jerry Brown will make it possible for bicyclists who are ticketed for certain infractions to attend a class on safe bicycle riding and thus reduce their fines.…
This article originally appeared in Streetsblog Los Angeles. A few new bike-share details emerged at yesterday’s Metro Planning and Programming committee meeting. Overall, Metro bike-share is on track to open in downtown Los Angeles with about 1000 bikes at 60+kiosks. The…
Santa Monica is one step closer to fully launching L.A. County’s first public bike-share system. Five hundred brand new bikes, which will be distributed at 80 different hubs throughout Santa Monica and part of Venice, arrived in the beach side city…
Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day with a family-friendly, buccaneer-themed bike ride, find out the latest in environmentally-friendly vehicle technology at the Alt Car Expo, and learn about what Santa Monica can do to fund affordable housing in the future.…
The countdown to Expo opening all the way to Santa Monica has begun. Phase two of the Expo light rail line will connect the beach with downtown Los Angeles and with the region’s growing rail transit system by train for…
Los Angeles Streetsblog, Santa Monica Next, Santa Monica Spoke, and the Echo Park Film Center are proud to present “Observations from an Emerging Bicycle Culture” in Santa Monica and at the Film Center this October. The multi-media presentation will be…
With Big Blue Bus’ planning on increasing service by more than 10 percent as part of the agency’s Expo integration service realignment, officials are considering a possible 25 cent fare increase in 2016, the first fare increase for the Big…
Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica is about to undergo a dramatic transformation. The stretch of Lincoln that runs from the 1-10 freeway to Santa Monica’s southern border, controlled by CalTrans until 2012 when Santa Monica took it over, is being…
Los Angeles County’s first public bike-share system has begun testing this week in Santa Monica. Seven test hubs with a total of 31 bikes have been set up around the city. CycleHop, the company running the system, has recruited about…
