Metro - File #: 2021-0812

• File #: 2021-0812
• Type: Contract
• Status: Filed
• File created: 12/28/2021
• In control: Finance, Budget and Audit Committee
• On agenda: 3/17/2022
• Final action: 3/17/2022
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE Motion Response Work Plan (Attachment A) to Board Motion Item No. 41 approved December 2021.
• Sponsors: Executive Management Committee
• Indexes: Bicycling, Board approved a Motion, Budgeting, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Contracts, Council Of Governments, Disadvantaged business enterprises, Eric Garcetti, Global Positioning System, Logistics, Metro Bike Share, Metro Equity Platform, Motion / Motion Response, North Hollywood, Plan, Prevention, Purchasing, Race, Race and ethnicity, Ridership, Rolling stock, San Fernando Valley subregion, South Bay Cities subregion, Subsidies, Surveys, Theft, Vehicle sharing, Westside Cities subregion

Date	Action By	Action	Result
3/17/2022	Executive Management Committee
3/16/2022	Finance, Budget and Audit Committee

Meeting_Body
FINANCE AND BUDGET COMMITTEE
MARCH 16, 2022

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MARCH 17, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: METRO BIKE SHARE PROGRAM UPDATE

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE Motion Response Work Plan (Attachment A) to Board Motion Item No. 41 approved December 2021.

Issue
ISSUE

The Board of Directors approved Motion Item No. 41 "Improving the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Metro Bike Share" in December 2021 (Attachment B). The Motion directs staff to report back in 90 days. This report provides staff's response.

Background
BACKGROUND

The Metro Bike Share (MBS) program was launched in July 2016 in partnership with the City of Los Angeles and is in its fifth year of operation. It continues to provide a service to Los Angeles County residents with more than 200 stations located in the Downtown Los Angeles, Central Los Angeles, Westside, and North Hollywood service areas. MBS recently expanded and launched new service in Hollywood offering a total of 12 stations and a new mobility option for residents in this community. Both the Westside and the North Hollywood service areas, although initially launched as Smart systems, have now been converted to a Classic system. As MBS has grown, greater connectivity has been achieved between the service areas as well as an improved user experience. To date, a total of 1.3 million trips have been taken, 4.4 million miles have been traveled, and 4.2 million pounds of CO2 have been averted. In addition, the operator, Bicycle Transit Systems (BTS), has achieved its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) commitment of 22.37% overall.

Over the last two COVID impacted years, MBS has continued to remain in full operation. However, as with other programs, ridership has been negatively impacted. Latest ridership figures from January 2022 show year-over-year improvement but are still lower than pre-COVID ridership. Sanitation protocols continue t...