Bike Share!
Red roses for Bastille Day … and Pasadena!
July 14—Bastille Day—Bike Share came to Pasadena, with a grand opening celebration in front of Pasadena City Hall. It was a cause for celebration and a step forward in Pasadena’s efforts to be bike and transit friendly.
Bike share can be a game-changer, insofar as it helps solve the “first mile/last mile” connection to transit and encourages more people to ride.
Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition in the house!
The more people ride, the more it normalizes bicycling and helps people shift their thinking about bikes as a mode of everyday transportation.
MetroBike rolling the streets of ‘Dena.
Bikeshare allows more people to discover how biking saves money, reduces traffic and pollution, and helps people stay healthier. It also spreads the joys of cycling in the city: the way the bike helps people move through the city at a pace that enables them to see and experience so much more than they can from inside a car.
Bikeshare riders head up Marengo Ave.
Initially, bike share stations are mostly clustered in Old town and Downtown Pasadena, with an easternmost kiosk at PCC, and none north of the 210 freeway. As an initial rollout, this makes sense, but I’d like to see Metro expand this program northward and eastward, and I also think it makes it imperative that the city expand its network of bike lanes and use traffic calming measures on more streets to make this program successful. As I’ve written about before, too many of Pasadena’s streets are still not friendly for cyclists and too many drivers treat the streets as speedways.
Let’s ride!
Bike share can help people discover there is a world beyond the automobile, it expands the realm of the possible for those who want to go car free for a day–or more. From the looks of the smiles on the faces of people riding the Metro Bikes, I’d say the city is on its way.
Boyonabike! 
There are a few kiosks north of the freeway. One on Lake Ave at Montain St, next to Roscoes’s, and another on Fair Oaks next to Robinson Park. I’m looking forward to seeing how these work on Pasadena’s sharrow-thetic bike network.
Thanks for the correction. Still, there are few located in an area that has the highest percentage of families without cars in the city (the Northwest). And, so true, the city’s bike infra has a long way to go. Folks at the Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition are planning to use this to spur the city to fulfill its bike plan.