Eyes on the Street: Newly striped bike lanes on Figueroa Street at Anaheim Street. Photo: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.
There are brand new bike lanes on Figueroa Street. Despite all the ruckus, LADOT went ahead and removed one travel lane, making room for new bike lanes...
...in Wilmington!
That's South Figueroa Street, of course. Very convenient for accessing L.A. Harbor College.
The new South Figueroa Street bike lanes currently run 0.9 miles from Mauretania Street to F Street. According to the Department of Transportation (LADOT) website, they are planned to extend 2.0 miles from Lomita Boulevard to Harry Bridges Boulevard. Wilmington appears to be on course to have one of the best bike lane networks in the entire state of California, but that is another story for later.
L.A. County needs to embrace physically-protected bikeways, robust traffic calming around schools, and similarly transformative, safety-focused projects