Good Plans + Safe Roads = Better Biking
City of Beverly Hills will host a demonstration to show off what we hope will be a protected bicycle lane on Roxbury Drive south of Olympic adjacent to Roxbury Park. Drop by Sunday July 25th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m to chat with city transportation officials and at 10:30 a.m. sharp join fellow riders in a bike ride with our Mayor Bob Wunderlich.
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Exactly a month after the city council of Beverly Hills adopted the complete streets plan, our leaders are now facing the first next test: will bicyclists find safe access to and through the proposed One Beverly Hills project? The project comprises 600 hotel rooms and 340 housing units (not a single one of them affordable!) in three towers plus a conference center and retail — 2 million square feet in total. This Thursday May 20th city council reviews the project. Will city council require bicycle lanes as a condition of approval?
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City of Beverly Hills has finally adopted a complete streets plan. City council finally gave the nod on Tuesday, April 20th after having bottled-up a very good draft plan for eighteen months. We can now move forward on some of the first-year projects identified in the associated Action Plan: bikeway corridors, model bikeway design guidelines and the hiring of a mobility coordinator. Could safer streets for bicyclists be just around the literal corner?
Read moreAfter a couple of close calls on a Benedict Canyon ride about ten years ago I started to wonder why Beverly Hills had not striped even a single bike lane. Or acknowledged that bicycle riders share the road. Or gave a single thought to our safety on the streets. I found my answer at City Hall: a 35 year old Bicycle Master Plan that sat moldering on a shelf.
Read moreA selection of car crash images from the Beverly Hills Police Department’s own officers in the field. As As one wag asked in the comments on the department’s Instagram, “Why is everyone hauling ass and crashing in BH?” That’s a great question and one we’ve asked time and again of our Traffic & Parking commission and police department officials. Why indeed?
Read moreJoin us for a ride up Santa Monica Boulevard through Beverly Hills where we will join the latest CicLAvia. Starting at San Vicente Boulevard on Sunday August 18th at 9AM and heading east into Hollywood, this promises to be one of the most pedestrian friendly routes yet.
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City of Beverly Hills has released the draft Complete Streets Plan for public review and feedback. We need your help
Read moreCity of Beverly Hills has finally released a draft Complete Streets plan! Transportation consultant Iteris and bike-planners at Alta have
Read moreRecreation and Parks commission this January formally decided to abandon the bicycle safety and training program the city undertook in
Read moreBeverly Hills City Council adopted a total ban on shared-mobility devices, an action that came in an evening ‘special’ meeting to impose this ad-hoc regulation targeted at device companies Bird and Lime. The ordinance would also ban all ‘dockless’ devices including motorized bicycles. Penalties include impound and fines. Enforcement will target users as well.
Read moreCity of Beverly Hills is undertaking a complete streets planning process this summer and we need your input! The process kicked-off with a preliminary workshop and now we’re looking forward to several more scheduled events. I will be at both the workshop #2 this Wednesday and the Walk Audit in June. I look forward to an opportunity to meet Better Bike readers and riders.
Read moreIn the eleven years that BHPD has been providing monthly traffic data, nearly 5,000 people have been injured in crashes. Beverly Hills ranks among the most dangerous small California cities for crash injuries – a distinction that reflects our poorly-designed roadways and declining enforcement.
Read moreBetter Bike invites you to attend the Beverly Hills complete streets visioning workshop tonight. This process is our community’s opportunity to feed into the city’s mobility policy and coming Complete Streets plan. We welcome your attendance at this workshop and subsequent workshops.
Read moreIn an incredible turnabout, all five Beverly Hills councilmembers agreed to include bicycle lanes on our segment of Santa Monica Boulevard. The unanimous vote demolished the specious claims put forth by NIMBY opponents. And it recognized the solid arguments brought forth by forty speakers and scores more comments: bicycle lanes not only make riders feel safe, they actually make us more safe!
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Bicycle lanes on Santa Monica Boulevard come back to Council on Tuesday, June 20th. With a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make this corridor truly multimodal, we hope you’ll join us in Council chambers to urge city officials to encourage bicycle riding by making it safe.
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