Celebrate Bike Lanes, C'Mon! Bicyclists Pedal to MacArthur Park This Morning
Downtown L.A.'s new 7th Street Bike Lanes. Photo by SKD's LA Street Scenes via the LAist Featured Photos pool
If you're in Downtown L.A. this morning, hop (or pedal) over to MacArthur Park on the park side at 7th and Alvarado Streets at 9am. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) will paint the final bicycle marking to complete Downtown's first phase of bike lanes on 7th Street. Councilmember Ed P. Reyes and thankful bicyclists will gather to celebrate this milestone bikeway.
Spanning from Catalina Avenue to Figueroa Street through Downtown, Koreatown and Westlake, the 2.2-mile lanes are striped through three of the City's most densely-populated neighborhoods.
The 7th Street bike lanes are all part of the plan - the City's Bicycle Master Plan - which is spearheaded by Councilmember Reyes. What's phase two? Organizers plan to extend the 7th Street bike lanes through Downtown to Soto Street in Boyle Heights, adding an additional 2.9 miles to the exiting bikeways. In total, The Plan maps out 1,680 miles of interconnected bikeways and plans for 200+ miles of new bicycle routes every five years.
