Pasadena Bike Plan gets Major Boost
Protected & Separated Bike Lanes
are asked to be added to plan.
A Cyclist rides the 3rd Street Cycletrack (protected bike lane) in Long Beach. The lane is separated from the moving autos by the parked cars and a series of planters.
City Council Subcommittee asks staff to add protected/separated bike lanes to the plan, make it “more ambitious.”
Current conditions are widely acknowledged to be unsafe.
“We can do better!”
Here’s the story, Twitter-style
(scroll to the bottom and read UP, if you like chronological order)
(Or, read it on Storify. Not all of the links below are working properly.)
“Complete Streets” advocates note that the plan relies mostly on “sharrows” (those painted stencils of bikes) on busy streets, which are unsafe, ineffective. Municipal Services Subcommittee agrees, asks staff to add protected bike lanes to the plan.
Comments:
- Tornek: describing the Strategy Café we all participated in on July 1st: “the conversations were truly remarkable… compelling… very productive…”
- McAustin: “A lot has changed in 10 years… in the past we’ve been told ‘we can only make tiny, gradual changes’ …nothing bold… I’m tired of it!”
- Tornek: “Wes’ question, ‘would we be comfortable telling our constituents that they are safe biking on our streets?’ was right to the point. And the answer is, ‘We wouldn’t!’ When I go up Lake Ave, I wind up walking my bike on the sidewalk, because I’m not comfortable riding on the sharrows!”
- McAustin: “I’m a fair-weather cyclist… I enjoy biking but don’t personally feel safe… Pasadena residents should have pleasant streets to ride on in their own city, not just when they visit other cities on vacation!”
- McAustin: (paraphrase) Let’s pour our efforts into a really big, bold, imaginative effort that could really attract some substantial grant funds, and capture resident’s imagination to giving cycling another try.
- Tornek: “The other issue was the funding…” “we’re going to have to find the funds.”
Bike Master Plan is finalized, is scheduled for review by the city council. First, though, it goes to the Municipal Services Subcommittee for their approval.
Complete Streets advocacy group is formed
“Complete Streets Forum” announced, to plan a course of action
Bike Plan scheduled for Approval; Need for safer infrastructure rises to a boiling point.
3rd Fatal Collision in 2 years occurs on Del Mar Blvd.
Other cities in the region move forward with far more ambitious bike plans
“Bike Week” celebrated
Caltech students circulate a petition to improve the bike plan.
Pasadena’s Bike Plan introduced at city’s General Plan meetings; reaction mixed.
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Related articles
- Calling for Bike Lanes in Pasadena (mllegramophone.wordpress.com)
- DPNA convenes “Complete Streets Forum” in response to cyclist’s death (downtownpasadena.wordpress.com)
- Bike rider killed near Caltech in Pasadena (bikinginla.wordpress.com)
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Reblogged this on Mademoiselle Gramophone.
we def need a better bicycle plan in pasadena. people, motorists, bikers, all need to feel safe with each other. that wood bee a big incentive for everyone to choose alternative transportation.