Earth Day 2024 features free LA Metro rides, green lights on the Santa Monica Pier Ferris wheel and more.
offers an opportunity to highlight environmental issues and the work being done to protect the planet from pollution, deforestation and other threats. The theme for 2024 is focused on the threat plastics pose to the environment.In the spring of 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson helped create Earth Day to force environmental issues onto the national agenda. By December 1970, Congress authorized the creation of a new federal agency to tackle environmental issues, now know known as the U.S.
Bus fare boxes will be deactivated, and all train-station fare gates will be opened. Metro Bike Share users can redeem free 30-minute rides by selecting"1-Ride" at any Metro Bike Share kiosk, online or in the Metro Bike Share app by entering the promo code 042224. A credit or debit card is required. The first 30 minutes of all rides are free. Rides longer than 30 minutes are $1.75 each additional half-hour. Electric Metro Bike unlocking fees are waived.
Metro Micro customers can redeem free rides on Metro's on-demand electric rideshare service by using the Metro Micro app or browser and entering code EarthDay24. The promo code will be available during regular operating hours for Metro's Call Center from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson and other city officials will flip a ceremonial switch to turn on solar canopies that were recently installed on top of the two parking structures at Long Beach Airport.
Last week, construction crews successfully installed the first girder and initial level of the crossing in the Liberty Canyon area near Agoura Hills. When completed, the crossing will be the largest of its kind in the world, a first in California, and a model for urban wildlife conservation, wildlife advocates said. Construction began in 2022, and is expected to be completed by late 2025 or early 2026.
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