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Today, Santa Monica was honored with a Bronze level distinction from the League of American Bicyclists. Some cyclists may disagree considering heavy and unfair policing by the city, but in terms of infrastructure, Santa Monica has close to 16 miles of bike lanes, 19 miles of bike routes and a 3 mile beach bike path. They also estimate they parked 20,000 bikes with in 2008 their bicycle valet program and bicycling "plays a key role in the City’s Land Use and Circulation Element Strategy Framework," the city says. More bicycle paring is coming to downtown Santa Monica and they will have events on May 14th, which is Bike to Work Day. They join Long Beach, Claremont and Santa Clarita in recognition.
Santa Monica Wins Bicycle Friendliness Award
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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That is funny. HA!
This has got to be a joke, right?
Did the "League of American Bicyclists" actually ride around Santa Monica? If they did, they would have been doored, spit at, had a few water bottles and Taco Bell drink containers thrown at them, and maybe even cited by the infamous Santa Monica Police Dept.
That is how bicyclists are treated in Santa Monica. It's a hate crime when you attack someone based on their race or sexual preference. It's a sport to injure a bicyclist.
The infrastructure put in place by the city is seperate from the asshole behavior of a few private citizens. I don't see what one has to do with the other...
They got the bronze level "Bicycle Friendliness" award. That is a joke, regardless of the investment into infrastructure. They need to invest into behavior modification.
The ratings for bicycle friendliness are not just based on infrastructure if I understand correctly, but also on the support of law enforcement and other factors that are important in addition to infrastructure. If some place has the best bicycle infrastructure in the world, but say the police allow 4 wheel drive vehicles to hop concrete dividers and drive in bike lanes and routinely ignore hit and run cases, they are not going to score so well.
If Santa Monica wants to be a platinum city like Davis California, it will take more than sticking a bike lane in front of city hall that dumps into hostile busy streets with no bike infrastructure on both ends, as was done recently. But they are trying, which is more then can be said of most parts of LA.
I live and work in Santa Monica, live car free and ride a bike every day. It's not that bad here. It's not that great either, although it beats most anywhere else in Los Angeles. Maybe instead SM should get a copper rating instead of bronze. Also bike routes should not count for anything. Lincoln Blvd. is a bike route, Lincoln is also one of the worst streets to ride a bike on in L.A. county.