{"id":364257,"date":"2017-03-21T02:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=364257"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:53","slug":"rubina-ghazarian-avital-shavit","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/rubina-ghazarian-avital-shavit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprawling cities are clogged with cars. Avital Shavit and Rubina Ghazarian coax Angelenos from four wheels to two."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"g50-profile__stats-block profile__stats-block--profile-364257 \">Transportation Planners, LA Metro &amp; LADOT<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California<br \/>\nAges: 37, 29<\/aside>\n<p>Los Angeles isn\u2019t exactly the first city that comes to mind when you think \u201cbike-friendly.\u201d It\u2019s enormous, polluted, and hot. But, as much of the country looks to California to lead the way on climate action, more people are paying attention to the transportation choices of the City of Angels, which contains roughly a quarter of the state\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>The intricacies of a bike-share system that can work for a large, complex metro area\u00a0like Los Angeles, made up of 88 different municipalities, is something Rubina Ghazarian and Avital Shavit think about a lot. Ghazarian has been working to launch an L.A. program since 2011, first with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and later with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. Shavit got involved in 2014, taking up at Metro where Ghazarian left off.<\/p>\n<p>[pullquote share=&#8221;true&#8221; hashtag=&#8221;Grist50&#8243; cite=&#8221;Rubina Ghazarian&#8221;]\u201cWhat really drove me was: How can we make biking for everyone?\u201d [\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p>In July of 2016, the bike share finally launched. The network of cycle stations is designed to connect people to public transit systems and transport them around Downtown L.A. Already, people have taken 122,000 trips on the bikes, saving 292,292 pounds of CO2. Other municipalities across Los Angeles County have expressed interest in joining the program in the coming months and years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These transportation gurus coax Angelenos onto bikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57007830,"featured_media":490269,"menu_order":14,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-364257","grist-50-profiles","type-grist-50-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grist-50-cities","grist-50-economy","grist-50-13"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sprawling cities are clogged with cars. 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