Bollards, traffic signals, concrete curbs, and other measures are used to divert automobile through traffic, while at the same time allowing bikes to proceed normally.

The good news is that the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI) based out of Portland State University, along with the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals and Alta Planning,is in the process of creating a Bicycle Boulevard Design Guide.

This guidebook will be a resource for urban and transportation planners, landscape architects, designers, engineers, advocates, and others involved with bikeway planning and design. Hopefully, we may see it incorporated into State Highway Design Manual, now being called the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (the ever expanding length of titles and acronyms).

Here is a another good quick description-

http://www.planetizen.com/node/37385

"Rethinking quiet streets as bicycle boulevards.....Yes — the bike boulevard. It means a not-too-busy street where cars and bikes share the roadway, moving at safe speeds."

If you look around LA, you may find we already have a few nascent bike blvds already, or roads that can be treated as such...and not just 4th Street.

Lexington bike blvd anyone?

or even simpler than that.... SHARROWS anyone?

I think it's a bike route because that street is not as busy as, say, Burbank or Ventura Blvds, and because they put some signs up. Works great, but I don't really see why it should be getting any special funding other than what it costs to put up some signs and maybe paint some bike lanes.

*shrug*