Results tagged “sharrows”

     

Last week Long Beach did something that, by all appearances, no other city has ever done: they painted sharrows--a common practice to educate motorists that bicyclists get to legally share the road--with a five-foot green lane--a new and inventive way to grab everyone's attention and help cyclists stay out of the door zone.

No, you won't be seeing the 15 Councilmembers bike commuting to city hall (well, maybe Eric Garcetti will), but next Friday, the Transportation Committee will hold a special hearing on six bike themed measures in addition to Dodger Stadium shuttle service and a recent report from the RAND Corporation on reducing traffic in the short term. "The bicycle related motions up for discussion include updates on the Sharrows Program, bicycle licensing, and the Bike Master Plan," LA Streetsblog excitedly reported.

Keeping in line with being one of the best transit-oriented neighborhoods in the city, the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council voted last night to support Councilman Eric Garcetti's sharrows pilot project motion by giving $5,000 to the project. "If passed by the Council, and enacted by the City's Department of Transportation, the Fountain Avenue Sharrows route would initially run about 1.5 miles from Western Avenue on the west to the Sunset Blvd diagonal on the east--located entirely within the EHNC boundary area and connecting to an existing Class 2 bicycle lane towards Silver Lake and Echo Park," explained a statement from the neighborhood council.

Today, City Council President Eric Garcetti announced two motions he is putting forward. If you know the biking community, you know these two proposals came from Garcetti listening to the community as the problems/solutions here are often heard within the cycling community. From a Garcetti press release: