Results tagged “bikepath”

Following up on yesterday's Orange Line Clean-up post, here's a video showing how dirty just one small spot was. Even that black trash bag was found back there. Ick!

       

After LAist exposed the Orange Line's bike path as a mini skid row (and followed up on by the Daily News), the city finally got down to work this past weekend when police from the Van Nuys Division, volunteers and those filling community service by court order all met to clean the path between Hazeltine and Van Nuys Boulevard.

       

What was a solution to prevent graffiti tagging on soundwalls became a problem as transients moved in. When Metro's Orange Line opened in 2005, the bike path walls had little growth around them, leaving them as a blank canvas for graffiti. Landscaping was planted to discourage tagging and it was a success for the most part, but when you have space and shrubbery, it also become shelter. As seen here, many have made it their home.

Billboard, meet Bikepath.

This time it is LA Times Bottleneck blogger Steve Hymon calling out LA County Supervisor Don Knabe, a "leader in regional transportation." Well, the regional attraction that is the 22-mile bike path running from Temescal Canyon to Torrance has a section in Marina Del Rey that could be mistaken for the San Andreas Fault, according to Hymon who says the crack in pavement is "perfect for catching bike tires." So what's he doing about it? "Surely, such a leader will be able to get a relatively small section of bike path repaved so that grumpy reporters aren't making inquiries about it, as I'm about to do." Go, Steve, Go.

Following up on the story where a bicyclist was attacked and robbed by two men on the Ballona Creek Bike Path, Streetsblog LA finds that this is not a new problem. This month's incident demonstrated that the LAPD had hard time dealing with the incident because no numbered street address could be given. Even when the city's Dept. of Transportation tried to find out the crime statistics for the path, the LAPD could only give data for the area. And now Streetsblog finds that this problem existed back in the 90s.

The City Council has been looking at closing an access gate on the Ballona Creek Bike Path because in the vicinity of the 405 Freeway of crime. One such incident just happened. Via an e-mail sent to Streetsblog LA, here are some highlights: