Santa Monica to open nation's largest bicycle parking station

As you know we here at slyde use our bikes to do everything, Pick up deliveries , go to lunch  all sorts. So it is save to say that we are big advocates of turning venice into amore Bike Friendly area. It is true that I dont even own a car (way too much trouble) . This is about  time that we become more reliant on bikes around the beach areas! I am only hoping this is a good sign of things to come for this area. It would be great to see Venice get their own bike center!

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The largest bicycle parking facility in the United States will open Friday morning in downtown Santa Monica, dwarfing similar stations in cities like Chicago and Washington, D.C. The Santa Monica Bike Center is a 5,300-square-foot facility with 360 bicycle parking spaces, a space to rent bikes, lockers, bathrooms and showers for cyclists to rinse off after a ride. “It’s a very big deal, especially when we’re really trying to get people on bicycles more often,” said Meghan Cahill of the Washington-based League of American Bicyclists. Cahill said there were similar stations like the McDonald’s Cycle Center in Chicago -- which offers 300 spaces -- and a station in Washington that has more than 100 spots, but none that compared to Santa Monica. A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the agency provided $1.5 of the $2 million it cost to build the center.