Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Subject
SUBJECT: METRO BIKE SHARE PROGRAM UPDATE
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE report on Metro Bike Share Program Update.
Issue
ISSUE
The Metro Bike Share program ("MBS") was launched in July 2016. The micro-mobility market is constantly evolving, and Metro needs to continue to assess its bike share program in relation to the goals of the program and the market changes. This report provides an annual update on the MBS.
Background
BACKGROUND
In January 2014, the 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.
At that time, only the cities of Santa Monica and Long Beach had established publicly-owned bike share programs. In July 2016, the MBS Program officially launched Phase 1 in downtown Los Angeles with 1,000 bikes. In 2017, Phase 2 expansion of 700 bikes was launched in Pasadena, Port of Los Angeles, and Venice. In May 2018, Phase 3 expansion of 1,400 bikes was authorized for contiguous expansion of the downtown and westside Los Angeles and Venice service areas, including historically underserved communities as measured by the CalEnvironScreen metric. MBS currently has a total of 3,065 bikes, of which 353 are electric and 932 are smart bikes.
The business model also outlined a cost sharing formula for capital costs and operations and maintenance costs between Metro and the partner cities. Since the inception of the MBS, privately-owned bike share and electric scooter pr...
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