LAist: Crime on Ballona Creek Bike Path Still an Issue

shawnz

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:06:11 -0800

so i ride this trail all the time and I haven't even ever seen anything shady. lots of bikers and occasionally some moms and child in stroller, or teenagers making out. and i go right by the 405? is all of this crime happening after sunset?

thecheddar

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:03:49 -0800

The LAPD doesn't even know about this path. I was assaulted and robbed on the trail once and the police didn't even respond after the 911 call. Even the lawmakers who I complained to didn't know that the public could access these bike trails! Between the lawlessness and the crack smokers and the hookers, it's not worth traveling anywhere near there.

Zach Behrens

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:27:53 -0800

thanks, Will!

Will Campbell

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:23:39 -0800

Just to clarify the motion and action being taken to close the gate is being done strictly as a measure to deter alleged crimes occuring in the neighborhood adjacent to the bikeway (as if somehow improperly motivated thugs can scale a four-foot-high chainlink fence. In making that decsision there was little consideration to the closure's impact on bikeway user safety.