Today work will begin on the Grand Ave. and Olive St. bike lanes. Together, the Northbound Olive St. and Southbound Grand Ave. will form a 1.5 mile bike lane couplet from Washington Blvd. to 7th Street. Removal of existing striping begins today with the actual striping and installation set to occur over the weekend. Each bike lane will include a 4 foot painted buffer and both streets will be receiving full-time parking, as shown in the schematic below.
Connectivity
This welcome addition to the bicycle network improves connectivity between transit and other bike lanes in downtown. The new lanes provide access to the 7th St./ Metro Center, Pico, and Grand Metro Rail stations. The lanes are also just a short jaunt away from LA Live. Best of all, they will connect to future bike lanes on 7th St. and Venice Blvd., both of which are currently undergoing the Environmental Impact Review (EIR) process. For more detailed information about how your downtown network is developing, you can attend the upcoming Bicycle Plan Implementation Meeting at the California Bear Credit Union Community Room (located on the first floor alongside Broad Plaza) from 1-4pm on Tuesday, October 2nd.
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They put the buffer on the wrong side of the lane. :(
I hope they will be Green-painted (just like the bike lane on Spring street)
Why is it that the permanent parking and the bike lane cannot switch positions. Make it a cycle track. Put the lane against the curb and the parking “floating” from the curb. It still puts bikes in the way of cars entering and exiting the parking, and of being doored.
Phew, so glad the lane is between the parked cars and the moving cars. (35+ mph ?) Whatever you do, don’t put the bike lane behind the parking, where it would be protected from cars, because then my sister, my 8 year old daughter, and my senior citizen mother would be tempted to use it. We don’t want more women out there biking, do we – it’s just not lady like. :-)
YAY!
Joe B: there are pros and cons of placing the buffer between the bike lane and the traffic lane, vs. between the bike lane and the parking lane. Placing the buffer between the traffic lane and the bike lane as this design will do, will afford a greater level of comfort for bicyclists and separation from motorists traveling along Grand and Olive. Given the generous width of the parking lane and bike lane here, there is ample space to ride in the bike lane and out of the door zone.
ng: placing the bike lane between the parking lane and the curb requires the use of physical separators and dedicated signalization- elements which are cost-prohibitive at this time. The “My Figueroa” project if approved could be the first true protected bike lane in Los Angeles. Stay tuned!
Reblogged this on Seagoat.
Couldn’t the buffered bike lane and the parking have been on opposite sides of the street?
Ryan: though we have explored placing the bike lane on the left side of the street, there are a number of concerns: one is the endpoints and how riders would transition where the bike lane starts and ends; the other is the general lack of familiarity motorists which are used to interfacing with bicyclists on the right side of the roadway (when traveling through). Not to say that this wouldn’t be an option in the future, but at this time, we are keeping bike lanes on one way streets on the right hand side of the roadway.
Tim: Since there is ample room to ride outside the door zone, then why not stripe the unsafe door-zone area as a buffer? Striping it as a bike lane (as the proposed design does) gives naive riders and drivers the false impression that the door zone is a safe place to ride.
Joe: in this case we have only enough width to select one buffer zone location, and it was determined that the most beneficial location would be to place the buffer between the bike lane and vehicular lanes. Not to say that a buffer against the parking lane wouldn’t have some benefit- it was considered as well.
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