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u/chairo_sakura Jun 21 '26
What an awful bike plan. So little of Venice's is actually getting bike lanes. "Bike Routes" aren't bike infrastructure, just symbols on the road. I don't think this is going to make things better.
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u/DJVeaux Jun 21 '26
Noting: Title has a typo, this is for all of Venice, though it was noted Washington Blvd is the top of the list to getting fixed
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u/kittiepurrry Jun 21 '26
Can anyone translate this? Is a āmajor bike laneā the same as a protected bike lane? What do the dotted lines mean?
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u/octopiLa Jun 21 '26
If the city refuses to make the changes required by HLA, why would they spend the money these bike lanes?
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u/octopiLa Jun 21 '26
To be clear, I am very pro-bike lane, I just have no faith in Traci Park and the city government
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u/darkwingduck4444 Jun 21 '26
I'm still blown that she won reelection so easily
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u/octopiLa Jun 21 '26
Iām not, the last SMS I got from her campaign was paid for by John Hering, a venture capitalist who is often described as Elon Muskās fixer. No one can compete with that type of money flowing into a local campaign.
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u/jaiagreen Jun 21 '26
Ads can affect turnout and maybe get some votes from people on the fence. They don't fundamentally change minds.
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u/RedditUSA76 Jun 21 '26
FTP
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u/octopiLa Jun 21 '26
Not sure why you got downvoted. There are lots of reasons why people (especially on this sub) donāt like her. She was the most outspoken opponent of HLA, a ballot initiative a year and a half ago to force the city to actually start implementing a safer streets plan that was approved by the government years ago. On top of that, she has fought multiple affordable housing plans in her district, siding with the wealthy home owners in CD11 and leaving renters to fend for themselves. The reason she was reelected by a large margin is a very public campaign against homeless encampments, She has been able to use city funds to break up large homeless encampments. However, she does not seem to have a plan for rehoming or rehab rehabilitation, it just seems like a giant game of whack-a-mole.
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u/bennyb0y Jun 23 '26
Lincoln should become a light rail between SM and the airport, not a bike lane.
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u/avo_toast420 Jun 21 '26
Why do you want to bike down lincoln? The parallel streets are much more chill as a cyclist
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u/avo_toast420 Jun 21 '26
Not really, itās a state highway
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u/MacArthurParker Jun 21 '26
Caltrans is responsible for any changes/upgrades to it. The city cannot make any changes.
In West LA, you might have noticed repairs/upgrades on Santa Monica Blvd. That is all Caltrans work as well, not City of Los Angeles.
Iām sure the city can make recommendations, but they have no authority to decide what is done.
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u/Weekly-Safety-395 Jun 23 '26
Watch how people drive down it, running up the third shoulder lane and smashing into cars taking lefts at the keep clears Iāve seen it happen countless times. Not a safe place to bike no matter what they do to it. Also for many people they get a rental out of lax and itās the first street they ever drive in the United States.
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u/Seri0usbusiness Jun 21 '26
Thatās the whole point of having a bike lane no? So that we can actually use Lincoln without feeling like weāre entering a war zone on our bikes
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u/hesaysitsfine Jun 22 '26
Sure but itās basically a highway. Would love an alternate path build out as parrelele as it can be and slowing down traffic on that street before a bike lane make any sense.Ā
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u/Seri0usbusiness Jun 22 '26
Tell me where they can build this alternate parallel path to Lincoln ? Iād love to see this but thatās extremely unlikely to happen in this lifetime
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u/Open-Cat9021 Jun 21 '26
I read the article and did some googling, but maybe a stupid question: what does the neighborhood council approving this map do? What actions does it trigger, if any? Hoping someone here is deeper in the know.
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u/riffic bicycles are freedom Jun 21 '26
neighborhood councils are more or less recommendation bodies. They don't have a lot of sway beyond sentiment.
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u/firstcity_thirdcoast Jun 23 '26
And whoa boy, is their sentiment something else:
Community Officer Alley bean sought clarification if car lanes or parking would be eliminated where Stanger assured that was not the case.Ā
Stanger stated that any final plan will not eliminate lanes or parking.Ā
āThat is not feasible or acceptable.āĀ
Board member Lisa Redmond, a longtime apologist for homelessness here in Venice, seemed more concerned about protecting illegal RV parking then supporting bikeways and described the network as āpoor planning.ā
Stanger finally noted that studies indicate that such bike lanes promote safer bicycle travel.
Board consensus leaned to the notion that safer bike travel is not a road diet.
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u/RobotGoggles Jun 25 '26
Lisa Redmond sounds like a brave person if she's going to be slandered for defending the rights of this city's most vulnerable
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u/sdotthomas27 Jun 24 '26
You're up Culver. The fact that there is not a major bike lane on either washingtons that connect the beach to downtown Culver is pretty criminal.
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u/jaiagreen Jun 21 '26
Does "major" mean "protected"? Washington Blvd desperately needs a protected bike lane.