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Next Week’s Big Bike Meeting: Bike Harassment, the LAPD, Bike Planning and More!
When Streetsblog spoke with Councilman Bill Rosendahl about his priorities as Transportation Committee Chair, he promised a number of sweeping changes and regular "bike themed" committee hearings. Next week he is going to make good on some of his projects when he chairs his first "bike-only" City Council Transportation Hearing. You can read the full agenda here, or just read on as we'll preview each issue that will be discussed.
December 4, 2009
As Promised, Sharrows Appear in Hermosa Beach
One month ahead of the schedule communicated to guest writer Joe Linton, Sharrows have appeared on the main streets of the1.7 square mile city of Hermosa Beach. The Sharrows were a major part of the city's Bikeways Master Plan, but amazingly that didn't stop them from actually putting the Sharrows on the ground.
December 4, 2009
Sharrows Coming to Hermosa Beach
On July 28th 2009, the City of Hermosa Beach approved its Bikeways Master Plan. Hermosa Beach is a 1.7-square-mile South Bay city with a population of about 20,000. Their bike plan is a one-page map in a 5-page staff report, done in-house. Hermosa's City Council meeting videos and documents are very conveniently archived and indexed on the city's website.
September 30, 2009
City, Bike Coalition, Moving on Sharrows
The Los Angeles County Bike Coalition reports that funding is finally in place for the Sharrows pilot program for L.A.'s streets, half a decade after the LACBC began their Sharrows Campaign. A group of funders have pooled their dollars to fund the Sharrows on a couple of Los Angeles' roads, but just because funding is in place doesn't mean the paint will start flowing; first the roads for the new paint need to be selected.
August 28, 2009
Let’s Name the Long Beach Shared Lanes
The new Sharrowed and painted travel lanes in Long Beach have caused quite a stir; but the relatively new concept of painting a shared-lane has yet to draw a catchy adn easy-to-use name. Since Streetsbloggers are nothing if not inventive, I was thinking that we could do our part by coming up with the best name for a travel lane marked with Sharrows and green paint as seen in the above picture.
July 15, 2009
Mea Culpa: Long Beach Not First to Have Colored Shared Lane
Last week, while reporting on the green, sharrowed travel lane in Long Beach, I wrote that to the best of my knowledge, this was the first lane of this type in America. Thanks to commenter Dan Bergenthal, we discovered that Salt Lake City, UT announced their colored, sharrowed, lane in September of 2008. Funding for the colored lanes comes from an FHWA bicycle safety pilot program. Reports on the effects of these lanes will be completed in the fall of this year.
July 6, 2009
Sharrow Cam Tells the Story of Long Beach’s Green Shared Lane
Russ Roca, the photographer and bike activist who has taken the lead on promoting Long Beach's world-class shared lane, brings us a video on people's first reactions to the lane. For anyone that missed Friday's story, Long Beach painted a travel lane green and installed Sharrows on 2nd Street, one of the busiest streets in the city for both bikes and cars.
June 29, 2009