Themes

Theme: Policy and Planning Subcommittee

Bicycle Planning

• Expand bicycle parking with bicycle stations
• Begin by building action plan
• Emphasize bicycling for all trips, not just commuting
• More outreach meetings (including for Call for Projects)
• Conduct counts; share data
• Emphasize countywide network and Complete Streets
• Too much focus on expensive bike paths
• Add SWITRS data to Bicycle Transportation Strategic Plan (BTSP) to identify where improvements should be planned
• Convert to on-demand lockers
• Develop bike share at stations
• Integrate local Bicycle Master Plans (BMPs) into Strategic Plan (Volume 1 and 2)
• Improve collaboration with non-profits
• Share lessons learned
• Deduct points in Call for Projects (CFP) Regionally Significant Transportation Improvement (RSTI) category for projects that do not include a bicycle component (or add points for projects that do)
• Require a sustainability element in all motorized projects
• Emphasize bicycle accommodation in freeway interchange, arterials or bridge/overpass projects in CFP
• Fund education, safety and encouragement projects in CFP
• Fund innovative and experimental designs in CFP Project Planning
• Bicycle Advisory Committee for all projects
• All projects should incorporate Complete Streets concepts
• Plan for improved access to transit stations in new projects
• As part of new projects, emphasize improvements at major intersections around transit stations
• Metro could establish a Bike Working Group.
• There could be breakout sessions to help Metro staff develop planning policies.

Joint Development

• TOD’s need same level of bicycle access to station entrance as pedestrians and autos
• Provide bicycle parking within convenient access to station entrance with good visibility
• Allow vendors at stations

Long Range Planning & Coordination Group

• Integrate Metro’s BTSP into Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)
• Emphasize bicycling as equal footing as other modes

Parking Policy

• Revise Metro parking policy; no free car parking
• Bicycle parking should have lower price point than autos

Transit Planning

• Wilshire Corridor bus service does not accommodate bikes
• Connect Metro stops to activity centers and attractions

Funding/Regional Programming

• Increase funding for bicycle projects in CFP
• Fund maintenance for roads heavily used by buses and near bus stops
• Fund pavement projects
• Use Prop C funding for bike and ped improvements

Government Relations

• Support legislation that increases bicycle use
• Advocate for non-motorized in Washington
• Include bicycle projects in federal earmark proposals

Implementation Subcommittee

Station Planning/Engineering and Construction Depts

• Improve access to transit stations
• Emphasize improvements at major intersections adjacent to transit stations
• Allow designs to accommodate growth in bicycle use and to expand bicycle parking
• Design/ retrofit stations and construct stair channels for bike wheels

Communications

• Promote more bicycle use in campaigns
• Use public art model for bike parking
• Improve website (with Planning)
• Livable Communities message; emphasize public health and community safety in messages about benefits of cycling and benefits to reduce climate effects; partner with CDHS
• Bicycle information/ route maps inside all Metro stations
• Lower volume of transit TV
• Make bike rules more obvious
• Post messages that promote safety and bicycling inside transit vehicles
• Increase wayfinding and other directional signs

Operations (Bus, Rail) Subcommittee

• Allow bikes on escalators
• More capacity on trains/ remove seats
• Clarify bike rules
• Provide clear instructions/signage on where bikes should go in trains
• Provide straps to hold bikes on trains
• Add places for cyclists to hold onto inside trains
• Define train and bus capacity
• Install bike racks in station mezzanines
• Train bus operators to be more alert for cyclists; improve training
• Change policy to allow bikes inside buses when racks are full [at night if buses are not full]
• Evaluate success of triple bike racks in Long Beach and consider for Metro