  Unusual features in the in-plane charge transport in lightly hole-doped
La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} single crystals are described. Notably, both the in-plane
resistivity and the Hall coefficient show a metallic behavior at moderate
temperatures even in the long-range-ordered antiferromagnetic phase, which
obviously violates the Mott-Ioffe-Regel criterion for the metallic transport
and can hardly be understood without employing the role of charge stripes.
Moreover, the mobility of holes in this "metallic" antiferromagnetic state is
found to be virtually the same as that in optimally-doped crystals, which
strongly suggests that the stripes govern the charge transport in a
surprisingly wide doping range up to optimum doping.
