Update: Bike lanes were installed on Chandler Blvd. between Leghorn St. and Woodman Ave. this past weekend.
Chandler Blvd. will soon be getting bike lanes to fill an existing gap between Leghorn St. and Woodman Ave.. The project will extend the existing Chandler Blvd. Orange Line bike lanes for approximately one mile, creating a continuous 4.8 mile east-west facility between Van Nuys Blvd. and Vineland Ave. (2.7 miles from Vineland Ave. to Leghorn St. and 1.2 miles from Van Nuys Blvd. to Woodman Ave.). In addition to all the lane mileage, Chandler Blvd. also has a 2.8 mile Class I bike path that starts from Vineland Ave. (near the Metro Red Line North Hollywood Station) and continues to the Burbank City limit at N Mariposa St..
In total, Chandler Blvd. has 7.6 miles of dedicated bike facilities and is a very important component of the L.A. Bike Plan’s backbone network in the southern San Fernando Valley. Chandler offers connections to the Metro Red Line and Metro Orange Line transit stations, and to bike lanes on Woodman Ave., Laurel Canyon Ave. and Colfax Ave.. We’ll be sure to update you here on the Bike Blog when the lanes go in (tentatively scheduled for this weekend).
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[…] Chandler Blvd. in the Valley is turning into quite the cyclist’s paradise, the LADOT Bike Blog… A new project “will extend the existing Chandler Blvd. Orange Line bike lanes for approximately one mile, creating a continuous 4.8 mile east-west facility between Van Nuys Blvd. and Vineland Ave. (2.7 miles from Vineland Ave. to Leghorn St. and 1.2 miles from Van Nuys Blvd. to Woodman Ave.).” This new addition, expected to be installed this weekend, will bring the street’s bike lane total to 7.6 miles, with connections to the subway, the Orange Line, and lots of major streets. [LADOT Bike Blog] […]
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I use chandler all the time. I have to say, without the lanes in completion that street already feels like a bike lane street. I can’t say I’ll notice a difference, other then a painted a spot on the ground for people to line up their trash cans and double park their cars without ever being ticketed at all. Sometimes the bike lanes just become magnets for more crap in the way. I love the dumpster that get put in the chandler bike lanes the most.
[…] Possible road diets move forward in Silver Lake, but hit the brakes in Glendale as officials worry about the effect on traffic. Here’s a hint — providing a viable alternative to driving could actually reduce congestion. Meanwhile, The Atlantic Cities looks at L.A.’s green bikeway blues, but other than that, things are just peachy, while LADOT prepares to fill the gap on the Valley’s Chandler Blvd. […]
Thank you for making the valley a better place to ride your bike.
Now we need to stop the silence from the city council and push the bicycle agenda forward with the auto centric public and neighborhoods.
LADOT, its good see more bicycle facilities on the road; bike lanes, soon street friendly roads, sharrows, bike paths, rack and soon bike signs everywhere. This auto centric city needs to recognize bicycles are part of the city. Happy Holidays, and the best gift I can get for my family, in the valley, is more bike facilities.