Completing, at long, LONG last, a bikeway network in Los Angeles is the easiest gimme solution that could create excellent PR and countless photo-ops for our press hungry politicians...Step One: Complete Streets.
Finish the complete bikeway network. Introduce Bicycle Boulevards. Come on already, it's like 30 years later....

This is a no-brainer for City Council, and for anyone out there who wants better bike infrastructure. By using the momentum towards this new green economy, we could even call out for our piece of MTA and their Measure R pie. Wait, I mean cookies. No, pie.

With all of the finger twiddling we've seen from LADOT all these years, I would like to see City Council mandate that they not only finish the original Bike Plan, but that they act with haste to complete this part of the transit solution.

Now is the time.

If they flub this for us again, we might have to give ole Captain Sharrows a call. If only he could teach the LADOT how easy it was to lay down a sharrow. So completely easy!

The Bike Plan from 1996/2002 had a bikeway network cost of $60 million over 8 to 10 years. That bike plan (stupidly) called for that money to come from sources outside the City of L.A.

If the cost for a bikeway network can be kept as small as $60 - $150 million, phase over a decade, the City (even in a cash-strapped ear) can afford to pay for its construction out of general funds. at a rate of $6 - $15 million a year.

We spend $70 million annually on graffiti abatement in L.A., $4 to $5 million in LADOT cops at congested intersections. Surely some local source of revenue can be found to pay for these bikeway improvements!

If the City wants, I'll chip in to start a fund!