As bicyclists we are all too well aware – bikes interacting with high speed vehicles can be a recipe for disaster for the bicyclist. A recent traffic engineering development, where signals automatically go to red in all four directions when there is no traffic…and go to red if vehicles are approaching the intersection at a [...]

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 [...]

Vista Street Bike Boulevard in Long Beach was put in just over 2.5 years ago.  When it was put in most residents were enthused.  Even if they didn’t bike they saw it as an opportunity for traffic calming and reducing cut through traffic.  But of course – as in any neighborhood there were a few [...]

Would you like to see the  2nd and PCH area of Long Beach be more bike and pedestrian friendly? Would you like to see pedestrian paths that allow you and your family to view the wetlands in SE Long Beach?  You ask…what wetlands…I thought those were just oil fields. The City is undertaking a review [...]

I’m spending the week in New York and just got my first taste of Citibike, the NYC Bike Share program. It is amazing.  Kiosks are everywhere. And even on a snowy day the bikes are well used.  The other thing that is so striking is how they have converted so much of their roadways to [...]

There was a great opinion piece in the LA Times over the weekend (well great if you are probicycling in the LA area); Sharing the road: Can LA be a cyclist’s town? The piece by the LA Times Editorial Staff lays out the case for the paper being pro bike. And it is a very [...]

This is a reminder that there will be a presentation and discussion on Wednesday at 6:30 pm in the City Hall Council Chambers (1st floor) regarding the Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities that are proposed for the PCH, Anaheim, Willow and Wardlow over crossings associated with the I-710 Corridor Project. Earlier this summer the draft Environment [...]

The City of Long Beach is in the stage of designing the forthcoming Pacific Avenue bike lanes that will run from bustling downtown through the quaint Bixby Knolls neighborhood. The cornerstone of the “Bicycle System Gap Closures and Improved Los Angeles River Bike Path Access,” Pacific Avenue will be a fantastic addition to our city’s [...]

The Port of Long Beach looks set to approve the EIR with Bike and Ped Path for Gerald Desmond Bridge Another major milestone along the path to build a separated bicycle and pedestrian facility on the replacement for the Gerald Desmond Bridge will occur on December 19 when the Long Beach harbor commission meets to review [...]

I’m hard pressed to think of a more urban – and hilly city – in the US than San Francisco.  And until this weekend  I didn’t think of it as a particularly bike friendly city.  But…this weekend changed my mind. It also made me think…if they can make San Francisco this bike friendly most cities in the [...]