Adding bike facilities…it’s just routine
Long Beach continues to show its commitment to being a bike friendly city.
Bay Shore Avenue in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach was just resurfaced…and of course they added sharrows.
In Long Beach there is close cooperation between the city’s bike staff, which is located in the traffic engineering section of Public Works, and the group responsible for routine street maintenance. As a result of this relationship when the streets are resurfaced bike facilities are simply included as part of the plan. The result is that miles of new bike facilities are added to city streets at minimal cost.
When streets in your city get repaved are bike facilities part of the plan? This is one of the lowest cost ways of upgrading bike facilities. The surface is clean…it needs to be stripped…all that is needed is a little paint. If your city is not doing this…get hold of your council member and mayor and request that bike facilities be included when streets are resurfaced.
For more information on effective advocacy in your community don’t hesitate to reach out to BIKEable Communities to find out what other communities and groups are doing to be effective in their cities.
Posted: May 29th, 2014 under Advocacy, Features, Infrastructure.
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