Metro Bicycle Education Safety Training (BEST) Program Classes

Metro is working with local non-profit bike organizations to help make bicycling safer in Los Angeles by conducting bicycle traffic skills classes and sponsoring community rides countywide. These safety education classes and rides are free to the public.

Additionally, for Bike Month, we have partnered with AAA to offer additional bike safety training classes. Don't miss out on these on our new events calendar!

Bicycling 101:
Planning a Bike Packing Trip (ActiveSGV)

WEDNESDAY 6PM - 7PM

Bicycling 101:
Rules of the Road for Night Riding (PMJ)

THURSDAY MAY 13
6PM-7PM

Ciclismo 101:
Bicicletas y seguridad en el transporte público (LACBC)

VIERNES 14 DE MAYO
5PM - 6PM

Bicycling 101:
Navigating Union Station (LACBC)

SATURDAY MAY 15
2PM - 3PM

BIKE MONTH - Bicycling 101:
Rules of the Road (PMJ)

TUESDAY MAY 18 
11AM-12PM

Ciclismo 101:
Navegando por Union Station de Los Angeles (LACBC)

SÁBADO 22 DE MAYO
2PM - 3PM

BIKE MONTH - Bicycling 101:
Ask An Expert Q+A (ActiveSGV)

SUNDAY MAY 23 
12PM-1PM

BIKE MONTH - Bicycling 101: Rules of the Road for Group Riding (PMJ)

TUESDAY MAY 25
6PM - 7PM

BIKE MONTH - Bicycle Maintenance:
Emergency Roadside Repairs (ActiveSGV)

SATURDAY MAY 8
10AM-11AM

MES DE LA BICICLETA - Mantenimiento Básico De Bicicletas (eSGV)

DOMINGO 16 DE MAYO
12PM - 1PM

BIKE MONTH - Bicycle Maintenance:
How To True A Wheel (Part 1)

WEDNESDAY MAY 19
6PM - 7PM

BIKE MONTH - Bicycle Maintenance: Fix-A-Flat (PMJ)

SATURDAY MAY 19 
11AM - 12:15PM

Metro is Celebrating Bike Month

This year, Metro will recognize Bike Month in May 2021, including Bike Anywhere Day (Friday, May 21) that will coincide with Bike Week (May 17-23, 2021).

Thank You For Taking Our Bike Commuting Survey

Your contributions will potentially help us change the future of bike commuting through art. Read more about our work alongside UCLA by clicking below.

Bike Month Along the Pacific Electric Path

Our self-guided ride this month starts in Claremont and takes you to the beginning of the Pacific Electric Path . We include turnaround points along the route for a 12, 20, 35, and 42 mile ride. This route is relatively flat, with very little shade. Aside from our start in Claremont, the route sticks to the bike path.

For this ride, we take a look at some local history while spending most of our time looking at the present. We focus on bicycle policy taking shape today at the federal, state and local levels.

LA COUNTY BIKE MATCH

Help us bring bikes to people in need with #LACountyBikeMatch!

STRAVA COMMUTE

A running and cycling computer to track and share your commuting stats based on Strava Metro.

SEATYLOCK

Support LACBC while securing your bike. When you make a purchase at Seatylock through the link below, a portion of your purchase goes to suppport LACBC!

LIME HERO

Thank you to all of you who have supported LACBC by opting to donate a slice of your Lime Ride!

Ask the FHA to revise the MUTCD

Last updated more than a decade ago, the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) sets the standards for traffic design and safety in your community and is riddled with harmful obstacles to building safer streets. Join People for Bikes and speak up in support of better and safer biking, walking and rolling.

Bike Safety Stop Bill Passes CA Assembly

A.B. 122 would make it legal for cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs. Now it's our state senate's turn to weight in. 

Los Angeles
Metro aims to begin fareless pilot for K-12 in August

More key details on the Fareless System Initiative — including more on costs, potential funding sources and the possibility of including other L.A. County bus agencies — will come next month. Metro staff will also soon release a comprehensive report on going fareless.

Los Angeles
Metro Service Council meetings this month

Check out the meeting for your region to learn more about June bus service changes, Metro Micro zones, and other regional items of interest. FYI the SFV region meeting was yesterday, May 5.

San Gabriel Valley: Monday, May 1

Westside Central: Wednesday, May 12, 6 p.m.

Gateway Cities: Thursday, May 13, 2 p.m.

South Bay Cities: Friday, May 14, 9:30 a.m.

Los Angeles
LADOT designates eight new street segments as Vision Zero priority corridors

1. Central Ave: between 101st and 109th St
2. Central Ave: between Florence and Manchester Ave
3. Foothill Blvd: between Apperson and Sherman Grove
4. Nordhoff St: between Balboa and Collett
5. PCH: between Broad and Wilmington
6. Roscoe: between Oso and Tampa
7. Vanowen: between Sepulveda and Van Nuys
8. Wilmington: between 106th St and Imperial

Arroyo Verdugo - Glendale
Share your thoughts on repurposing the Verdugo Wash with the City of Glendale

Community members have been proposing a bike/ped pathway long the wash, and now the City of Glendale has launched a website that discusses the study of repurposing the wash. Check out the link and fill out the survey! You don't need to live in Glendale to share your thoughts. 

Central Los Angeles
New sections of bike lane in Ktown and Chinatown

Via Joe Linton at StreetsblogLA - One-third of a mile of new bike lanes in Ktown, plus two new blocks of bike lanes on Figueroa Street in Chinatown.

Central Los Angeles
Beverly Hills City Council Approves Complete Streets Plan

Councilmembers made clear that while they're setting out a vision, there's no decisions being made as of now. 

Central Los Angeles
El Sereno BRT?

Funding from canceled 710 extension could instead bring BRT to Valley Boulevard

San Gabriel Valley
Pasadena studying four north-south bike boulevard corridors

El Molino, Wilson, Sierra Bonita and Craig Avenues are the contenders. 

Transport Reviews looks at the impacts of COVID on cycling

Editors Ralph Buehler and John Pucher take a worldwide look at how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted travel behavior. They also take a look at trends in biciycle sales and government measures to accommodate and encourage increased cycling.