Santa Monica is an embarrassment of riches in many ways. That is especially true when it comes to alternatives to driving everywhere. And now, the city wants to make it as easy as possible for you to discover how you…
For their role in helping to make Breeze Bike Share — L.A. County’s first public bike-share system — happen, Hulu and CycleHop have been nominated together for 2015 Livable Streets-Friendly Business Streetsie award. CycleHop is company behind the “smart bike”…
It’s time to vote for 2015 Streetsie Awards and Santa Monica is represented in two of this year’s six categories: Elected Official of the Year and Civil Servant of the Year. State Assemblymember Richard Bloom is up for the Elected…
Santa Monica’s Breeze Bike Share — the first public bike-share system in L.A. County — officially launched on November 12 and a month later, it’s getting a lot of use. The 500-bike, 79-station system, which is sponsored by the Santa Monica-based…
If you’re like me, you rely pretty heavily on Internet and smart-phone based real-time transit arrival information when getting around. Santa Monica’s newest public transportation option — Breeze Bike Share — has been incorporated into the real-time transportation arrival app,…
Today, Santa Monica launched Breeze Bike Share, the first public bike-share system in Los Angeles County. To celebrate, more than 100 early subscribers, city staffers, and elected officials went for an inaugural ride in front of City Hall. Breeze’s…
The first public bike-share system in Los Angeles County opened today to much fanfare. Santa Monica’s Breeze bike-share features 500 bicycles at 75 stations throughout the city of Santa Monica, plus four in adjacent Venice. The system is run by…
This week, meet the final four candidates for the top position at Santa Monica College, get a free ride at Breeze Bike Share’s public launch, and join BUSted! for an evening of quality storytelling by people who get around L.A.…
ArcLight will open in Santa Monica this month, so will Sidecar Doughnuts. Downtown Santa Monica’s annual attraction, ICE at Santa Monica, opened for the season last night. And on Thursday, you can ride L.A. County’s very first public bike-share system…
Santa Monica has officially announced November 12 as the day for Breeze Bike Share’s full roll out, which will make it the first public bike-share system in Los Angeles County. The full roll out on November 12 will include music,…
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…
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 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…
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…
