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LA Metro Board September 2026 Update: Electric Buses, Open Streets, Bike-Share, and More
Metro electric buses, Metrolink funding, Metro ridership growth, Vermont Bus Rapid Transit, rail crossovers, fares, bike-share, and open streets
September 24, 2026
Bike Shorts: Open Streets, Griffith Park, Metro Bike Share, and More
New bike lane protection in Griffith Park, Hollywood and Arcadia - and Metro expanding bike-share and funding CicLAvia-type events
September 18, 2026
Friday Video: Why Micromobility Sucks in So Many American Cities (But Not In Others)
And what we can do about it.
February 12, 2026
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
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.
Alex Ramirez
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.
Edwin Aviles and Kalayaan Mendoza
May 7, 2025
Bicycle Transit Systems Beefs Up to Compete with Lyft After Acquiring BCycle
When the new acquisition finalizes next month, Bicycle Transit will operate in nearly 30 cities — more than three-times as much as its publicly traded competition.
September 25, 2024
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
April 2, 2024
This Week’s LA 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
