With the continued expansion of our Bike Corral pilot program, L.A. now has two corrals with more coming soon. The LADOT Bike Program has been working with local businesses and council offices to identify additional locations for our pilot program expansion. To that end, we thought it would be useful to create a promotional document that describes what a corral is for businesses that may be unfamiliar with the concept. The document outlines the benefits of having a corral and some of the expectations of maintaining the facility. Feel free to download the document and show it to a local business that you think would benefit from having a bike corral, and have them get in touch with us and their council office (the document is best printed double sided and in color).
The Document
Is the LADOT bikeway staff trying to spread these initial corrals out amongst several council districts, or is more consideration being made towards where they will have the most user demand? At this point, I don’t know of anywhere in the entire San Fernando Valley where a bike corral would be highly used daily, there just isn’t yet a large gathering of bike parking usage outside of schools and transit in the valley.
Hey Dennis,
To answer your question, a little bit of both. We’re looking to distribute corrals throughout the City in areas where they will be best utilized.
I suggest using Google maps as a kind of spy cam to make a preliminary evaluation of bicycle parking usage when considering a location. There is a possibility that the camera shots were made when the business was closed or it was a holiday, but it still would give a quick view of the situation and you can consider the traffic volume on the street when making a judgement.
Going back to the council districts that should be considered for bike corral installations and that include the San Fernando Valley…I would say that the east hollywood area would be a likely candidate for Tom LaBonge, Westwood for Paul Koretz and the Venice area for Bill Rosendahl. The highest public bike parking usage for their council districts would not be in the San Fernando Valley.
Yes. Thank you for the Bike Coral doc. I’ve been needing this to gather petition signatures in my neck of the woods!
Has LADOT considered doing what Santa Monica has done on Main Street–putting bike racks in spaces that were previously red zones for the purpose of increasing pedestrian visibility? It’s utilizing space that was going to be empty anyway.
http://la.streetsblog.org/2012/03/16/on-street-bike-corrals-land-on-main-street/
Hi Evan,
We are certainly looking to place corrals wherever we can. If there is a red zone you know of that can benefit from a corral (and that has a business that is willing to maintain it) be sure to let us know and we will contact them to get the process started.
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