page_title: Metro Bike Share
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Metro Bike Share / History
caption_attribution_description: English: LA Metro Bike Share station on 7th Street just west of Bixel, Los Angeles.
context_page_description: Metro Bike Share is a bicycle sharing system in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area. The service was launched on July 7, 2016. It is administered by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is operated by Bicycle Transit Systems. The system uses a fleet of about 1,400 bikes and includes 93 stations in Downtown Los Angeles, Venice, and the Port of Los Angeles.
context_section_description: Compared to other U.S. cities, Los Angeles was relatively late in implementing a municipal bike sharing program.  Efforts to create such a program failed in 2013, and at one point the city was the only one of the ten largest U.S. cities to lack a bike sharing system. The city council finally approved a plan in August 2015 to create a downtown pilot program that would function as a partnership between Metro and the city. The system began operations on July 7, 2016 with 1,000 bikes and 65 stations in Downtown Los Angeles.
  In July 2017, Metro Bike Share expanded to Pasadena and the Port of Los Angeles with 30 and 13 new stations, respectively. The system further expanded to the Venice Beach/Santa Monica area in September 2017 with 15 new stations. After a little more than a year of operation, the Pasadena service was canceled in September 2018 due to low ridership and high operating costs.
  Metro Bike Share is the first bike share system in the U.S. to be integrated as part of the city's existing public transit system. While other cities' bike share systems are usually operated by the municipal transportation department or an independent group, L.A.'s bike share is operated by Metro and allows riders to purchase rides using the same regional TAP card that is used on Metro's buses and trains. The city has plans to eventually allow riders to transfer directly between Metro buses and trains and Metro Bike Share for no additional cost.
caption: Bike share station in Downtown LA
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