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Downtown L.A. has a nearly completed left-side southbound parking-protected bike lane along one mile of Grand Avenue between 5th Street and Pico Boulevard. As of last weekend, the thermoplastic striping on Grand is complete, but the bollard protection has not yet been installed.
Newly upgraded northbound parking-protected bike lane on Olive Street.
The Grand Avenue bike lane was also extended north two blocks - about a thousand new feet of bike lane. It previously started at Wilshire Boulevard; now it starts at 5th Street.
New preliminary striping for new left-side one-way bike lane on Grand - from 5th to Wilshire maybe further? (Looks like some buffered, some parking-protected?) Thanks @LADOTofficial@LADOTlivablepic.twitter.com/MgLYftqFLA
L.A. County needs to embrace physically-protected bikeways, robust traffic calming around schools, and similarly transformative, safety-focused projects