Active Transportation Plan - City of Pomona

Pomona Active Transportation Plan
November 2012
Chapter 3 – Existing Conditions
Image 3-1 Bike Lane on Hamilton Avenue (Source: City of Pomona)
Existing Bicycle Parking, Transport, and Support Facilities
Bicycle parking is present at Pomona’s downtown Metrolink station, the Pomona Civic Center, and major
educational institutions such as Cal Poly Pomona. Bicycle parking at the downtown Pomona Metrolink
station includes bicycle racks. Limited bicycle parking is present throughout the rest of the City and
should be considered at destinations and bicycle generators. The City does not currently have a rack
placement or rack request program enabling accurate tracking or geographic locating of city-installed
racks in the public right-of-way or on other publicly-owned properties. In addition, there is currently no
city code requirement for private developers or property owners to provide on-site bicycle parking for
residents, tenants or visitors.
Connections to other modes, such as public transit, are primarily provided in two ways in Pomona: bicycle
racks on buses and bicycle parking at the two Metrolink stations. The bus operators in Pomona include
Metro, Foothill Transit, and OmniTrans, all of whose busses provide racks with capacity for two bikes.
Bicycle parking is typically not provided at bus stops. Metrolink allows bikes on all train cars; however,
most are limited to three bikes. Selected Metrolink trains include special “Bike Cars” that are designed to
hold 18 bikes on the lower level. Both Metrolink line serving Pomona, the Riverside Line and San
Bernardino Line, have trains that include a “Bike Car.” There are no bicycle parking support facilities such
as lockers, showers, or changing facilities at connections with other transit modes in Pomona.
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