Los Angeles, get ready to pedal your way out of traffic galore! This July, Metro will be introducing 1,000 new bikes as part of the city's first bike-sharing system.

The system is already in place in Santa Monica and Venice, but this new move will focus on downtown (Washington Boulevard, the L.A. River, Chinatown, and the Pasadena Freeway, to be exact).

The shiny new bikes will be parked at 65 solar-powered stations, the locations of which range from Union Station to Grand Central Market to Little Tokyo.

There's two missions: affordability and safety. A half hour will cost $1.75, the same cost as a bus ride. And as far as safety is concerned, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation is making protected north-south lanes, so a buffer will separate cars and cyclists on Main and Spring streets.

So, what's next? Loads more bikes for all you health fanatics (that is, if you're not busy spinning already)! Metro's in talks with 15 other communities across LA to make the bike program countywide.

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