Construction on 0.9 miles of bicycle and bicycle-transit only lanes could begin on Sunset Boulevard as early as next month. The bike facilities, consisting of .76 miles of peak period bicycle-transit only lanes and .14 miles of standard bicycle lanes, will reach from Figueroa Street to Douglas Street in Echo Park.
Linking up with existing bikeways to the west, the project, the first of the First Year Bike Lanes to move forward, will greatly increase the safety of bicycling between Echo Park and Downtown. Additionally, the peak hour bicycle-transit lanes will increase the speed of transit operating in the corridor, particularly the Dodger Stadium Express. In line with the 2010 Bicycle Plan, future planned bikeway improvements on this corridor include bike lanes along Cesar Chavez Avenue going east from Figueroa Street.
A public hearing for the Sunset Boulevard bicycle facilities occurred on February 14th, and the LADOT General Manager gave the project the go-ahead on April 22nd. The Traffic and Safety Assessment for the project is available here, and the City Planning staff report is available here.
can you post a diagram of what this is going to look like?
It will look like this: http://goo.gl/maps/MIFNh but with two mixed-flow travel lanes in each direction. The lanes will also be a foot to two feet wider.
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So, during non-peak hours what happens to the bike lanes? Are personal automobles allowed to use the lanes in non-peak hours?
John: during non-peak hours, parking will be permitted and though there will be no striped bike lane per se, the solid white edge line of the peak-hour bus lane will be clearly visible and serve to delineate a de-facto bike lane space, roughly as wide as a standard bike lane.
Any idea when the Douglas to Fig lane will be finished? I scanned the two docs but didn’t see any timeline info. Thx.
Doug: we are wrapping up design and hope to get the lanes on the ground sometime in June.
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