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09.08.17 Volume 16 Issue 257

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Daily Press Police and fire respond to car theft, car crash and launching new series on pedestrian injury this week homelessness

MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor

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CRASH: Thursday morning SMFD responded to a crash near Alta and Ocean.

Despite a short work week, it’s been a busy few days for local police officers and firefighters. Santa Monica’s emergency responders have handled three serious calls in the past four days

including assistance with a Los Angeles car chase, a serious vehicle vs. pedestrian accident and a fiery crash on Ocean Ave. Two incidents occurred on Thursday, the first early in the morning. SEE RESPONDERS PAGE 7

Tandem bikeshares now available at the coast MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor

Santa Monica’s Breeze Bikeshare system has been wildly successful since opening in 2015 surpassing more than a million rides last month. However, the bright green bikes will soon have some company on local roads from the newly expanded, and as yet incompatible, Metro bikeshare system. The new system, supplied by Bicycle Transit Systems, Inc. installed 15 stations with 165 Metro Bikes throughout Venice and Santa Monica this week. The Metro system will be available at the Venice Beach Boardwalk, the Abbot Kinney shopping district, Muscle Beach, Rose Avenue, Downtown Santa Monica Expo Line Station, the 17th Street/SMC Expo Line Station and the Marvin Braude Bike Trail along the beach. The September expansion is the third for the Metro system this year including an expansion into Pasadena and at Port of Los Angeles in July 31. The combined expansion has resulted in approximately 1,400 bicycles at up to 125 stations. Breeze provides 500 bikes distributed across 88 hubs in its service area, including five in Venice and at all three Santa Monica

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METRO: The Metro bikeshare system has installed 15 stations throughout Venice.

Expo stations. The Breeze provider, Social Bicycles (Sobi), also has local bikeshare systems to Long Beach, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and soon UCLA. The Sobi sys-

tems currently share some connectivity across cities. A customer with a Santa SEE BIKESHARE PAGE 6

MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor

The Daily Press will publish a series of stories, editorials and columns in the coming weeks focused on homelessness. These stories will include news, features, editorials and columns about the subject and while the focus will be on Santa Monica’s response to the problem, the content will acknowledge this is more than just a local or even regional issue. This is a cultural problem with a multitude of causes and far reaching implications. We’re starting this week with the factual motivation for the series: the number of people living on local streets is increasing regionally, Santa Monica itself has seen a significant increase this year and residents countywide are making homelessness a priority. According to the most recent homeless count, Los Angeles County saw a 23 percent increase in its homeless population last year and no matter how you split the local geography, the Santa Monica area also saw its numbers rise. Homelessness increased in the County service area covering Santa Monica, it increased in the Supervisorial district, it increased in the City of Los Angeles council district that surrounds Santa Monica and the City’s own count recorded a 26 percent increase in homeless individuals within city borders. The percentage increase comes even as the county continued to increase the number of people that found housing. In 2016, the county found permanent homes for 14,214 people, a 30 percent increase over the prior year. “The scale and scope suggest a SEE HOMELESSNESS PAGE 3

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