Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Subject
SUBJECT: METRO BIKE SHARE PROGRAM
Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
CONSIDER:
A. RECEIVING AND FILING report on the status of performance of the new fare structure for the Metro Bike Share Program and potential integration with other Bike Share programs in Los Angeles County, and
B. DIRECTING the CEO to complete an evaluation of the feasibility of continuing the Metro Bike Share Program after 12 months of performance data under the new fare structure authorized in May 2018.
Issue
ISSUE
At its May 2018 meeting, the Board adopted the new Bike Share Business Plan for the Metro Bike Share Program, including a new bike share fare structure. This action by the Board also included an amendment by Director Fasana requesting a report back in 90 days from the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI) and the Planning Department on whether Metro should continue the Bike Share Program. This report is in response to the Fasana amendment.
Background
BACKGROUND
In January 2014, Board approved Motion 58 by Directors Garcetti, Yaroslavsky, Bonin, Fasana, and Knabe authorized the CEO to procure, contract, and administer a countywide bike share program. With this Motion, Metro became the first transportation authority to launch a countywide bike share program. The business model approved by the Board was to implement bike share, in a phased approach, with a single-point agency (Metro) to ensure inter-operability among the different jurisdictions and integration with the TAP card.
The existing contract for bike share was signed in 2015. At that time, only the cities of Santa Monica and Long Beach had established publicly-owned bike share programs. In July 2016, the Metro Bike Share program officially launched Phase 1 in downtown Los Angeles. In 2017, Phase 2 expansion was launched in Pasadena, Port of Los Angeles, and Venice. In May 2018, Phas...
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