Eyes on the Street: Missing 4th Street Sharrows Are Back
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Sharrows on 4th Street in Hancock Park - missing last month - are back!
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Sharrows
Eyes on the Street: Disappearing Sharrows
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Sharrows are disappearing from L.A. streets? Is this an affront to cyclists? or should we focus on other things?
Sweet New Protected Bikeway On Beautiful Rosemead Blvd in Temple City
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The San Gabriel Valley’s Temple City opened its excellent new Rosemead Boulevard Project on May 10, 2014. I didn’t make it out to the grand opening festivities, but I recently got a chance to bicycle there and experience the new Rosemead Blvd first hand. It’s great. All Southern California cyclists should make pilgrimages — and […]
LADOT Announces 20 Miles of New Sharrows for 2014
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Via an article published yesterday in the LADOT Bike Blog, the department announced that it would be adding “approximately 20 miles” of “new sharrows… over the course of the next year.” The article includes a spreadsheet listing of where these sharrows will be implemented. In case readers are unfamiliar with them, Sharrows are shared lane […]
Why Do Sharrows Work Better In Long Beach? And Do We Need to Rethink Them?
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After four years, many complaints, many praises, and a final acceptance that they really aren’t that bad, the green Sharrows in Belmont Shore have turned 4. And with that, data have been released so that we can figure out precisely what we’ve learned. The Sharrows stretch along 2nd street in between Bayshore and Livingstone Drives […]
Fixing a roundabout that isn’t, Just a Block from the Beach
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When is a roundabout not a roundabout? Evidently, when it’s located roundabout the beach in Santa Monica. It’s not that the city by the sea hasn’t made great strides in recent years, particularly in justifying its designation as a Bicycle Friendly Community. The new Green Street on Ocean Park Blvd. shows Santa Monica’s commitment to […]