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Beverly Hills Adopts Complete Streets Plan

May 1, 2021May 1, 2021 Mark Elliot Complete Streets, Complete Streets plan process

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?

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Comment on the Draft Beverly Hills Complete Streets Plan

November 30, 2019November 30, 2020 Mark Elliot

After 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.

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Just Another Sunday Morning in Beverly Hills

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Mark Elliot BHPD, collision

A 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?

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CicLAvia Comes to West Hollywood This Sunday

August 15, 2019 Mark Elliot CicLAvia, City of West Hollywood

Join 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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Complete Streets Plan Draft is Posted: We Need Your Input

May 6, 2019 Mark Elliot Complete Streets, Complete Streets plan process

City of Beverly Hills has released the draft Complete Streets Plan for public review and feedback. We need your help

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Complete Streets Draft Plan is Out!

April 23, 2019April 24, 2019 Mark Elliot Complete Streets, Complete Streets plan process

City of Beverly Hills has finally released a draft Complete Streets plan! Transportation consultant Iteris and bike-planners at Alta have

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Recreation and Parks Commission: Bicycles Ain’t Our Thing

April 14, 2019April 14, 2019 Mark Elliot

Recreation and Parks commission this January formally decided to abandon the bicycle safety and training program the city undertook in

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Beverly Hills Puts the Brake on Shared-Mobility Devices

July 25, 2018July 25, 2018 Mark Elliot Bird, Lime, shared-mobility

Beverly 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.

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Beverly Hills Complete Streets Needs You

May 27, 2018June 8, 2018 Mark Elliot Complete Streets

City 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.

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Collision Injuries in Beverly Hills Sill Reach for Record Highs in 2017

April 2, 2018April 5, 2018 Mark Elliot data, Office of Traffic Safety, safety, Traffic and Parking Commission

In 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.

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Mark Your Calendar: Complete Streets Workshop #1

March 12, 2018June 8, 2018 Mark Elliot Complete Streets

Better 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.

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Beverly Hills City Council UNANIMOUSLY OKs SM Blvd Bike Lanes

June 21, 2017June 8, 2018 Mark Elliot John Mirisch, Lili Bosse, Robert Wunderlich, Santa Monica Boulevard

In 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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Santa Monica Boulevard Bicycle Lanes Come Back to Council

June 13, 2017January 23, 2019 Mark Elliot

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.