bike lanes

"We can choose to make Los Angeles a city where biking, rolling, walking, taking transit, and driving are safer, more enjoyable, and more joyful. And that's what this morning is about - more joy."

The $18.7 million 7th Street Streetscape project extends one mile from San Pedro Street to Figueroa Street - featuring curb-protected bike lanes (some new, some existing bike lanes), lighting, bus islands, and new trees

New Channel Road bike lanes extend about about 0.2-mile from Mesa Road to Short Street. The facility connects to the beach bike path via one block of new sharrows and an existing pedestrian undercrossing.

Armadillos spotted on southern California streets - on Elenda Street from Washington Blvd to Culver Blvd

LADOT did significant bikeway mileage in FY20-21, but here are some missed opportunities where they could have done more, longer, and better bikeways.

It's the new L.A. City fiscal year, so time for Streetsblog L.A.'s annual look at the past year's bikeway implementation.

Westwood and Le Conte is sort of a magical intersection for me.

In March of 2011, then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed into law the city's Bicycle Plan, a list of some 1,600 miles of bicycle lanes, routes, friendly streets and paths scheduled for the next 30 years. In some ways, implementation is going exceedingly well. The pace at which new bicycle lanes are being added exceeds even that of New York City. In other ways, the plan seems stalled as many of the projects that make up the "Backbone Bicycling Network" connecting neighborhoods, are being delayed or canceled as nervous City Councilmembers put up roadblocks to bicycle progress.

It's been nearly four years since the "Streets Summit" called together many of the city and county's leading bicycling advocates to discuss advocacy, safety, and how the Livable Streets Community can move forward. While the movement has made great strides in this time, I miss the camaraderie and fun an event similar to the 2010 Street Summit and 2009 Bike Summit created.