We are critical of the process and the results of the Plan, but are seeing this as an opportunity to educate and influence the city to create positive movement toward meeting the needs of cyclists.

Please take the time to review the maps and make comments. Your input in crucial.

We will be at Tuesdays BAC meeting to address our concerns.

This is the wrong choice to make. Car travel lane removal is more likely to ensure that two things: slower car speeds (safer for everyone in an urban area) and less protest from businesses (slower car speed and parking equals better retail sales).

I’m tried of City Council throwing us bones. Its all about padding themselves on the back “good job” see what we do for bikes! Examples
Eric Garcetti: Bike rack contest and ride to work Fridays
Tom LaBonge: I have a bike ride with ice cream during summer
Rosendahl, and NC’s: I support the “Bicycle Bill of Rights”
All the rest of council: Lip service

BFD!

The Mayor: Please no bones at all!

I want them to do something meaningful and real for bikes. I want space on the streets for bike lanes.
I want street parking eliminated on some east/west and north/south street and I want bike lanes instead of parking. They will probably implement the bike plan before I see City Council, Bicycle Advisory Committee and the NC’s make bold steps to really support bikes.

They will just keep throwing us bones and like good dogs we run after and bring back and ask them to throw it again. I don’t want anymore bones…I want a steak… I want by
Bike lanes.

I want a “motion” from city council members, BAC, NC to get rid of some street parking and put in bike lanes throughout the city.
Start writing letters to the all CC members, BAC members, and all NC’s to support bikes by eliminating SOME on street parking and putting in bike lanes.
LAstreertsbog start a campaign to eliminate on street parking and put in bike lanes. Get some idea streets and send them to CC, planning, BAC and NC’s like I’m.

I want my space (bike lanes)! Just like Peds have sidewalks and cars have roads.

PS good article on the DIY. DIY I have a summer idea for you. You know the bike lane on Sunset Blvd. where it ends because of City of Beverly Hills “we hate bikes” don’t want bike lanes……just extend the lane where it ends in LA City right through the City of Beverly Hills.

I don’t think it’s perfect, but it’s certainly not the last word. I think it’s important for cyclists to weigh in on what we want… but to also understand that city plans are constrained by political will… so, in my opinion, the trick is to get as much as we can in the plan… then get that implemented… then keep advocating for more and more! The plan doesn’t limit what we advocates can push for – it’s just a list of pre-approved projects that the city can move forward with implementing.

If anyone was expecting bike paradise tomorrow… then I’d suggest tempering your expectations. How about rolling up your sleeves, and composing a comment letter to the City Planning Department with suggestions of what you want in the plan. Best to ask for what you’d like to see – please don’t just say that the draft plan sucks and is embarrassing… without saying your opinion of what a good plan would be.

The only direction you’ll be able to get downtown is via “Bike Route” (hah!) coming from South LA. Not a single at-grade, Class 2 or Class 1 bike facility into downtown. Really?!

I feel like the scardy cats who made this map think that their limp wristed bureaucratic heinies are the only source of political will to see a more aggressive approach taken. If they could use their salaried time and community outreach budgets to USE THE BIKE COMMUNITY to fight for more aggressive on-street facilities (i.e. those that remove car travel lanes), then we’d be able to see some real progress.

Instead, we have a bunch of house slave, Judendienstordnung, weasels that treat community input as a threat to their paycheck. We could help turn bike programs into a huge political priority, but these folks don’t have the spine nor the spirit nor gumption to work with us in building a political coalition to work for better facilities, neighborhood by neighborhood (as it must necessarily be done.

Can we have a Bikeways Coordinator that can actually, you know, coordinate? Environmental Affairs, Public Works, LAPD, Planning, the Office of the Mayor … connect! Coordinate! Pull us together as a community to get something done. This map sucks!

Oh and my favorite are the routes that are not routes Proposed but currently infeasable seem to be the streets that are used most by cyclist.

I live in the Valley and that map looks like it would be nice. But I have a feeling we would not see 20% of these new projects started before my 16 month old daughter gets her drivers license.

It took what? 3 years to come up with this. Where is the Department of DIY when you need them?

Perhaps in another 30 or 40 years? GO L.A!

I find the so-called “Bicycle Routes” (Class III routes) to be mostly useless. I’m ignoring them on the map. This leaves the the Bicycle Lanes (Class II) and Bicycle Paths (Class I).

Am I reading this right? Is it true that there’s only one new Class I path proposed, along the Exposition train corridor?

Also, I can only seem to located a handful of Class II lanes proposed, again mostly on or near the Exposition path, along with a couple in South Central.

I think I’d trade all these lines and squiggles for one protected, Class I, two-way path stretching from some Westside beach to downtown.