Orange Markings Signal More Bicycle Parking

By Eric Richardson
Published: Tuesday, February 05, 2008, at 01:37PM

Eric Richardson

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The Arts District looks to get a little more bike friendly soon, with markings for bike racks showing up this week. The neighborhood is already heavily biked, but has offered little in terms of a place to lock up.

Much more about this soon, but the city's Bicycle Master Plan process starts up soon. The first meeting will be held on Saturday, February 16th, at the Expo Center Community Room (Expo Park; 3980 Menlo Ave). The fun runs 10am to noon.

We last got excited about orange sidewalk markings when rack sites showed up in the Historic Core. Unfortunately these will be traditional U-racks, not the fun bicycle racks at Caltrans.

Comments

SoapBoxLA writes:

It's unfortunate that providing parking for bicycles isn't simply the default position of our City but instead requires a specific request for a specific location.

If we simply had zoning standards that specified bike parking standards and then went through the city installing them, it would go a long way to turning LA into a Bike Friendly City.

Chicago made a commitment to go Bike Friendly and then went and installed over 9000 bike racks to back up that commitment.

LA is bigger and with more people and is still deliberating on the installation of 800 bike racks.

I applaud the arrival of the bike racks and hope that there will be more, many, many more in the future!

# on Feb.05.2008 AT 01:51 PM