What is Being Built and Where
The Mayor’s Office has asked us to publish a list of bike lane projects completed since Mayor Villaraigosa took office in July 2005 (May 27th, 2011 update): Bike Lane Projects Since July 2005 (1st version). Updated and corrected September 12, 2011: Bike Lanes installed July 2005 – June 2010 (final version).
July 25th, 2011 Update: Here’s a quick list of everything that’s been installed this past fiscal year, 2010-2011 (1st version). Updated and corrected September 7, 2011: Bikeways Installed Fiscal Year 2010-2011 (final version).
March 20th, 2012 Update: Here is a list of projects that we are working on as of 03/20/2012. For more information, visit our post here.
LADOT Bike Blog has always been committed to getting information at Bikeways out to the bicycling public of Los Angeles. To that end, we are proud to present a full listing of all projects began since January of 2010. Most projects are contained in the 2010 LA Bicycle Master Plan, though some were constructed simply because the opportunity arose during a street resurfacing project – like San Pedro Street or the lower section of Wilbur Avenue.
Google Map
LADOT Bike Blog has created a color-coded google map with all planned bicycle facilities and those bicycle facilities completed in 2010-2011. Check it out.
Bike Lanes
last updated: 05/10/12
Status – Completed
Reseda Boulevard – Northridge South
- Estimated cost: $79,560
- 2 miles from Parthenia Street to Devonshire Street
- Connects to Devonshire Street & Plummer Street bike lanes
Reseda Boulevard – Northridge North
- Estimated cost: $44,520
- 1.1 miles from Devonshire Street to San Fernando Mission Boulevard
- Connects to Devonshire Street bike lane
- Extends Reseda Boulevard bike lane
Winnetka Avenue
- Estimated cost: $92,000
- 2.3 miles from Gault Street to Nordhoff Street
San Pedro Street
- Estimated cost: $16,000
- 0.4 miles from 115th Street to 120th Street
Wentworth Street
- Estimated cost: $84,000
- Replaces bike route on Wentworth Street
- Connects to Hanson Dam Park bike path
- 2.1 miles from Sheldon Street to Wheatland Avenue
Louise Avenue
- Estimated cost: $26,520
- 0.7 miles from Lassen Street to Devonshire Street
Wilbur Avenue
- Estimated cost: $80,000
- Connects to Plummer Street and Devonshire Street bike lanes
- Replaces bike route on Wilbur Avenue
- 2 miles from Nordhoff Street to Chatsworth Street
Woodley Avenue
- Estimated cost: $20,000
- Extends Woodley Avenue bike lane
- 0.5 miles from Sherman Way to Saticoy Street
Hoover Street
- Estimated cost: $65,600
- Connects to 98th Street bike lane
- 1.64 miles from 120th Street to 98th Street
Rinaldi Street
- Estimated cost: $60,000
- Closes gap on Rinaldi Street bike lane
- Connects to Mason Avenue, Porter Ranch Drive, Corbin Avenue, and Tampa Avenue bike lanes
- 1.3 miles from Mason Avenue to Tampa Avenue
Reseda Boulevard – Community of Reseda
- Estimated cost: $44,000
- Gap closure between bike lanes and Sharrows on Reseda Boulevard
- 1.1 miles from Valerio Street to Roscoe Street
Reseda Boulevard – Community of Reseda
- Estimated cost: $50,680
- Gap closure between bike lanes on Reseda Boulevard
- May require some parking removal between Chase St. and Napa St.
- 0.5 miles from Roscoe Street to Parthenia Street
Woodman Avenue
- Estimated cost: $40,000
- Connects to Orange Line Bike Path
- 1.0 miles from Oxnard Street to Vanowen Street
Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
- Estimated cost: $125,000
- Requires removal of island to facilitate street reconfiguration
- 0.9 miles from Marlton Avenue to Rodeo Road
Riverside Drive
- Estimated cost: $20,000
- Replaces bike route
- Closes gap on Riverside Drive bike lane
- 0.50 miles from Fulton Avenue to Coldwater Canyon Avenue
Riverside Drive
- Estimated cost: $10,000
- Closes gap on Riverside Drive bike lane
- .25 miles from Woodman Avenue to Sunnyslope Avenue
Anaheim Street
- Estimated cost: $52,000
- 1.30 miles from Henry Ford Avenue to Long Beach City Limit
Exposition Boulevard
- For more details, check our Bike Path Projects page
- 3.4 miles from Harcourt Avenue to Vermont Avenue
- Expo Line Bikeway
Woodley Avenue
- Estimated Cost: $11,200
- Extends Woodley Avenue bike lanes
- 0.28 miles from Saticoy Street to Stagg Street
Wentworth Street
- Estimated cost: $24,000
- Extends existing bike lane on Wentworth Street
- 1.3 miles from Wheatland Avenue to Foothill Boulevard
Sheldon Street
- Estimated cost: $12,000
- Connects Wenworth Street bike lanes to Glenoaks bike lane
- 0.30 miles from Glenoaks Boulevard to Wentworth Street
Plummer Street
- Estimated cost: $10,000
- Connects Reseda Boulevard bike lane to Cal State Northridge
- 0.25 miles from Reseda Boulevard to Etiwanda Avenue
Year One Projects
Washington Pl.
- Estimated cost: $38,500
- 0.77 miles from Grand View Blvd. to Albright Ave.
Vermont Avenue
- Estimated cost: $27,000
- 0.54 miles from Del Amo Blvd. to Knox St.
Via Dolce
- Estimated cost: $20,000
- 0.4 miles Marquesas Way to Washington Blvd.
- Connects to Washington Blvd. bike lanes
Spring Street
- Estimated Cost: $150,000
- 1.40 miles from 9th St. to Cesar E. Chavez Ave.
- First bike lanes in designated downtown bikeway network
- First fully green bike lanes in L.A.
Tuxford Street
- Estimated cost: $50,400
- Gap closure between Glenoaks Boulevard bike lane and Roscoe Boulevard bike lanes
- 1.3 miles from Lankershim Boulevard to Glenoaks Boulevard
1st Street
- Estimated cost: $350,000
- merging areas and bus zones greened
- 1.60 miles from Boyle Avenue to Lorena Street
Jefferson Blvd.
- 1.50 miles from Harcourt Ave. to La Cienega Blvd.
- Part of Expo Line Bikeway
- Street resurfacing and re-stripping allowed for return of on-street parking
7th Street
- Estimated cost: $110,000
- 2.20 miles from Catalina St. to Figueroa St.
- Road diet project
Cahuenga Blvd.
- Estimated cost: $30,000
- 0.60 miles from Yucca St. to Odin St.
Chandler Blvd.
- Estimated cost: $44,000
- 0.88 miles from Woodman Ave. to Leghorn Ave.
- Connects with existing Orange Line bike lanes to North Hollywood Metro Red Line Station
Avenue 19/Avenue 18/Barranca Street – Couplet – Part of L.A. River Bikeway
- Estimated cost: $56,800
- Gap closure along section of LA River Bikeway where bike path is unfeasible
- 1.4 miles from San Fernando Road to North Spring Street
Main Street (Venice)
- Estimated cost: $50,800
- Connects to Main Street bike lane in Santa Monica
- Requires road diet
- 0.9 miles from the Grand Boulevard to Santa Monica City Limits
Foothill Blvd.
- 1.50 miles from Wheatland Ave. to Wentworth St.
Main Street (Downtown Los Angeles)
- 0.70 miles from 16th St / Venice Blvd. to 9th St.
Aviation Blvd.
- Estimated cost: $49,000
- 0.98 miles from Imperial Hwy to Century Blvd.
Vineland Ave.
- Estimated cost: $15,000
- 0.30 miles from Chandler Blvd. (North) to Burbank Blvd.
- Connects to existing Chandler Blvd. bike lanes
Rampart Blvd.
- Estimated cost: $30,000
- 0.61 miles from 6th St. to Beverly Blvd.
Westwood Blvd. / National Place
- Estimated cost: $15,000
- 0.30 miles from National Blvd. to Overland Ave.
Devonshire Street
- Estimated cost: $124,500
- 2.49 miles from Reseda Blvd. to Hayvenhurst Ave.
- Extends total bike lanes mileage on Devonshire St. to 7.4 miles
- Gap closure between sections of the Devonshire bike lane
- Further extends a valuable east-west bikeway corridor in the northwestern San Fernando Valley
Sepulveda Blvd.
- Estimated cost: $60,000
- 1.20 miles from Venice Blvd. to National Blvd.
Vermont Avenue
- Estimated cost $146,520
- Connects to 98th Street bike lane
- 3.7 miles from 88th St to I-105
- Northbound only bike lane
Van Nuys Boulevard
- Estimated cost: $37,880
- Gap closure between Chandler Boulevard bike lanes and the Orange Line Bikeway
- 0.7 miles from Chandler Boulevard to Oxnard Street/Orange Line Bus Way
Vermont Ave. (South Los Angeles)
- Estimated cost: $84,000
- 2.10 miles from I-105 to St. 88th St.
Main St. (South Los Angeles)
- Estimated cost: $40,000
- 1.01 mile from 92nd St. to 108th St.
White Oak Avenue
- Estimated cost: $69,000
- 2.40 miles from Victory Blvd. to Roscoe Blvd.
Weymouth Ave. / 13th St. (San Pedro)
- Estimated cost: $32,400
- 0.81 miles from 9th St. to Alma St.
Polk St.
- Estimated cost: $32,400
- 0.80 miles from San Fernando Road to Glenoaks Blvd.
Via Marisol
- Estimated cost: $48,000
- 1.20 miles from Monterey Rd. to Lomitas Dr.
Sesnon Blvd.
- Estimated cost: $24,400
- 0.61 miles from Tampa Ave. to Beaufait Ave.
- Connects to bike lanes on Tampa Ave.
Laurel Canyon Blvd.
- Estimated cost: $24,400
- 0.60 miles from Rinaldi St. to Crestknoll Dr.
120th St.
- Estimated cost: $20,000
- 0.50 miles between Main St. and Avalon Blvd.
Status – Pending Work Orders
York Boulevard – East
- Estimated cost: $34,840
- May require lane removal, pending work order finalization
- 0.9 miles from Avenue 55 to North Figueroa Street
Anahiem Street
- Estimated cost: $50,000
- Connects to Gaffey Street bike lane and Harbor Park and Palos Verdes Drive bike paths
- 1.0 mile from Gaffey Street to I Street
Porter Ranch Dr.
- Estimated cost: $20,500
- 0.41 miles from Rinaldi St. to Corbin Ave.
- buffered bike lanes
Status – Ongoing Inter-agency Communication
Sepulveda Boulevard
- Continues existing Sepulveda Boulevard bike lanes southward
- 1.2 miles from Skirball Center Drive to Bel Aire Crest Road
- LADOT coordinating with Caltrans and Metro – in concert with Sepulveda reversible lane project and I-405 widening.
Status – In Design
Main Street (Downtown Los Angeles)
- 1.40 miles from 9th St. to Cesar E. Chavez Ave.
- northbound bike lane on Main St. – details still need to be worked out
York Blvd.
- 1.30 miles from Avenue 55 to Figueroa St.
Figueroa St.
- 1.20 miles from 7th St. to Cesar E. Chavez Ave. / Sunset Blvd.
Flower St.
- 0.50 miles from 3rd St. to 7th St.
Los Angeles St.
- 0.50 miles from 1st St. to Alameda St.
Devonshire St.
- 0.80 miles from Sepulveda Blvd. to Woodman Ave.
Ventura Blvd.
- 0.80 miles from Fallbrook Ave. to Sale Ave.
Wilbur Ave.
- 2.10 miles from Chatsworth St. to Tampa Ave.
Huntington Dr.
- 2.10 miles from Esmeralda St. to Maycrest Ave.
Burbank Blvd.
- 2.70 miles from Hazeltine Ave. to Radford Ave.
Lorena St.
- 0.50 miles from 4th St. to Cesar E. Chavez Ave.
Foothill Blvd.
- 1.00 mile from Osborne St. to Wheatland Ave.
48th Street
- Estimated cost: $60,000
- 1.8 miles from Crenshaw Boulevard to Normandie Avenue
Imperial Highway
- Estimated cost: $2,000,000
- Gap closure between bike lanes on Imperial Highway and Pershing Drive
- Requires median narrowing and possible road widening to accommodate bike lanes
- 0.4 miles from Pershing Drive to 2000 feet east of Pershing Drive
Manchester Avenue
- Estimated cost: $2,000,000
- Extends existing bike lane
- Requires median narrowing to accommodate bike lanes
- 1 mile from Sepulveda Boulevard to Osage Avenue
Crenshaw LRT
- 0.76 miles from Slausen Avenue to 48th Street
Foothill Boulevard
- Estimated cost: $198,500
- Will connect to Wentworth Street bike lanes
- 3.97 miles from Osbourne Street to Wentworth Street
I like the MLK bike lane from Marlton to Rodeo. This will potentially connect more people to both the Exposition bike path and the Expo Line. A rider from Leimert Park would be able to safely travel West to either the Farmdale or La Brea Expo Line stop to connect with a large part of Los Angeles County — or connect to the Exposition bike path. This would be a huge plus for my community!
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It would be helpful when you create these maps to enable the bicycling layer and use the “map” view rather than satellite so that we can see how the new lanes fit into the existing network–because that’s the whole point, right?
It would be useful if google maps was up-to-date with their bicycle infrastructure overlay, but they aren’t. Several newer bike lane facilities (Hoover in South LA, Winnetka, etc.) aren’t yet on their maps. Building a google map overlay with all the new and future projects all in one place, however, is an excellent idea. We’ll try to launch that next week.
Please add ALL of Riverside Dr. Camarillo Street, Verdugo Street in Sherman Oaks, West Toluca Lake and Toluca Lake.
Important vein is ALL of Tujuna from Ventura Blvd to Sherman Way in Studio city and North Hollywood. That is a major line that connects the residents to the stores (Target, Home Depot, Studio City, parks, schools.)
I wanted to thank you guys for posting some updates-we needed more transparency. I do want to question why all of these segments are only 3.7 miles or less, with the vast majority of lanes under 1 mile. While all mileage is appreciated, shouldn’t there be far more extended lane mileage if we choose to actually bother to stripe a street? A few miles on a few streets in a place the size of LA seems to be counterintuitive. When will we see projects of 5 miles or more of bike lanes??
Allison,
The vast majority of the projects listed have these dimensions because they are where we can fit new bike lanes without either having to take out a travel lane or take out parking. When either of those things have to happen to fit in bike lanes, projects become more expensive, more difficult to get through engineering standards, and more difficult politically. Most of the “in design” bike lanes (1) are in the bike plan, (2) connect to or extend existing bike lanes, and (3) have enough room in the road geometry to fit lanes without too much needing to be removed first.
Additionally, some of the bike lane projects are in segments that add up to large chunks of mileage. The Reseda bike lanes and sharrows will be over 8 miles of continuous infrastructure when finished. Additionally, they’ll connect to the orange line bikeway (13+ miles) as well as lanes on Devonshire, Plummer & rinaldi.
With the adoption of the 2010 LA bike plan, we’ll be given the toolkit to tackle the 40 miles per year of new bike infrastructure that the 5 year expenditure plan calls for.
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on the Google Map overlay for the Exposition Right-of-Way Bike Path Phase 1, you mention that parts of the path may be constructed as a bike lane. Can you elaborate on what segments/ intersections will be class 1 vs class 2?
or can you point to the FEIR, or other document that contains the information to this question?
A good place to check would be with the Expo Construction Authority, as they’re in charge of the Design/Build for the project. The Expo Construction Authority will be shortly forming their own Bicycle Advisory Committee, modeled on the one for the City of LA. I’d assume that this new BAC, when formed, will be replete with information on the bike lanes and paths that accompany the Expo line.
I’ll also be happy to follow up with folks at LADOT and wrangle together as much information as we have.
Chuck – sorry I took so long getting back to you. Expo will have bike lanes all the way to La Cienega Blvd (currently ending at Harcourt), where it will switch to a bike path. This path will run through Culver City, back into LA, and end at Palms Blvd. A bike lane will start up there, running along National Blvd from Palms Blvd to Motor Ave. At Motor Ave, the bike path resumes and runs all the way to the end of the Expo Line. There’s a map here: http://www.labikeplan.org/index.php/download_file/-/view/76 and you can find the FEIS/FEIR for both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Expo Line here: http://www.buildexpo.org/about/
Thanks for remembering to answer my question.
Why wasn’t the bike path for the Expo line built at the same time as the rest of the construction? It seems like a huge waste of money to not have had it incorporated into the initial construction? And looking at the Expo Line where it passes through my neighborhood (Jefferson Park), I don’t see just where they’re going to put it. Frankly, at this point I’ll be very surprised if it actually happens.
GVDub – the Expo Construction Authority (a Metro subsidiary) did separate Design/Builds for the light rail and the bike path to expedite the construction process for the light rail. Any extra costs borne by separate construction schedules will be more than made up by a faster construction schedule for the light rail (which is, by far, the most expensive part). Sections of the Expo Line getting accompanying bike lanes will have parking removal or travel lane reconfiguration to accommodate the bike lanes – all that’s needed is a re-striping of the street. Sections of the Expo Line getting accompanying bike paths already have a Right-of-Way set aside in the light rail construction phase, meaning there will be enough room to build the bike paths once construction begins.
The map for the newly adopted LA Bike Plan shows what sections of the Expo Line will have bike lanes and what sections will have bike paths. http://www.labikeplan.org/index.php/download_file/-/view/76
My favorite bike lane, the one on Fair Park Ave between Eagle Rock Boulevard and Maywood is not mentioned in the bike projects since 2005, it was installed in 2011 but its existence has not been acknowledged beyond what I mentioned on my blog. It’s a result of a repaving, though unfortunately despite the MANY streets being repaved in ER it’s the only one I’ve seen that included a bike lane afterward
I’ll check on what the story is with Maywood.
Awesome! I thought the BAC was supposed to get heads up on repaving project and bike lanes were supposed to be considered where possible– opportunities have been missed in Eagle Rock.
And yeah, the story on Fair Park ;-)
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I don’t understand why you guys are not pushing for bike lanes that are sidewalk side of the parked cars… similar to how they do them in europe. You can place a really low curb to separate the bike lane from the parked cars….
seems to be much safer for bikers in Europe. Why can’t we do it here??
@ tk – thanks for the comment. I replied on the other comment thread you posted on: http://ladotbikeblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/main-street-bike-lane-project-goes-before-venice-nc/#comment-2189
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Your documents ‘Bike Lane Projects installed since July 2005′ and ‘Year 0 Installed (FY 2010-11)’ are incorrect. I’ve analyzed them here and come up with totals that I think are more accurate: http://laecovillage.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/correcting-l-a-s-stated-bikeway-mileage/
Thanks for keeping us on our toes, Joe. We’ll have a look.
You have York Boulevard from Ave 55 to Figueroa listed under ‘in design’ and ‘work order pending’ and with different distances too (.9 miles and 1.3 miles). I assume that one of these is supposed to be York from Figueroa to LA/Pasadena boarder?
Hey Severin,
Thanks for catching that. We’re working on a better way to show project updates in the future.
NOT WORTH IT:
Imperial Highway
* Estimated cost: $2,000,000
* Gap closure between bike lanes on Imperial Highway and Pershing Drive
* Requires median narrowing and possible road widening to accommodate bike lanes
* 0.4 miles from Pershing Drive to 2000 feet east of Pershing Drive
Manchester Avenue
* Estimated cost: $2,000,000
* Extends existing bike lane
* Requires median narrowing to accommodate bike lanes
* 1 mile from Sepulveda Boulevard to Osage Avenue
Surely 4 million dollars can be better spent at creating a real network. By LADOT’s cost projections we could get 3 or 4 miles of bike paths, or based on the most conservative of estimates between 20 to 100 miles of bike lanes. 4 million could be used to experiment with intersection treatment, building the bike boulevard network with perhaps 10 miles of very strong traffic calming.
Is there any possibility this money can be put to different projects? Maybe by doing more cost effective projects (road diets, fitting bike lanes with existing lane configurations, bike boulevards, enhancing existing bikeways with green paint and intersection treatment, bike paths) by the time LADOT returns to these two projects there won’t be any need to narrow the medians.
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