Recreation and Parks Commission: Bicycles Ain’t Our Thing
Recreation and Parks commission this January formally decided to abandon the bicycle safety and training program the city undertook in
Read moreHalfway to one Complete Street (if not a ‘Complete Streets’ Plan)
As we approach the upcoming complete streets workshop this Wednesday, a full ten weeks will have passed without a single word about the process from consultants Iteris or Alta Planning. Gotta wonder if our complete streets consultants aren’t off chasing other business. In the meantime, progress continues on Santa Monica Boulevard: eastbound bicycle lanes are striped bright green. Folks we are halfway to a complete street!
Read moreBeverly Hills Puts the Brake on Shared-Mobility Devices
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.
Read moreConcerns About our Complete Streets Process
My letter to the Traffic and Parking Commission regarding the state of our complete streets planning process. There will have gone ten weeks between the last event (the walk audit) and the upcoming workshop on August 22nd without any substantive communication with the public. It seems like we are midway through a singularly unimaginative complete streets process.
Read moreComplete Streets Walk Audit Recap
Beverly Hills conducted a Complete Streets ‘walk audit’ last Saturday. The event was a hands-on opportunity for participants to evaluate our environment for accessibility and safety. And of course to make recommendations. “Everything is on the table” in terms of improvements, said Aaron Kunz from Transportation, and we had some ideas!
Read moreBike Skills via WeHo Bicycle Coalition & Mid City West CC
Our friends over at West Hollywood Bicycle Coalition are plugging bicycle safety classes for mid-June. If you haven’t brushed the rust off of your street skills in a while, this is a great opportunity to become reacquainted with the rules of the road and safe urban riding tips.
Read moreComplete Streets Workshop #2 Recap
City of Beverly Hills has hosted the second in a series of complete streets outreach events. At workshop #1 general concepts were presented and key concerns identified. This workshop was rubber-meets-road as participants hovered over city maps to drill down on opportunities for pedestrian and bicycle networks and ‘vehicle technology streets.’ Good ideas came from five roundtables.
Read moreBeverly Hills Complete Streets Needs You
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.
Read moreLend Your Voice to the Beverly Hills Complete Streets Plan
Beverly Hills has embarked on a complete streets plan process. What now? Mobility advocates please lend your voice so that we can create a complete streets plan that is a leading-edge exemplar of multimodal planning. We need your help. We’ve come this far, over too long a time, to simply leave it up to city staff and consultants to shape a draft plan this fall.
Read moreCollision Injuries in Beverly Hills Sill Reach for Record Highs in 2017
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.
Read moreComplete Streets workshop #1 Recap
The first Beverly Hills complete streets process community workshop was held on Monday, March 12th, to kick off the drafting of the city’s complete streets plan. This is the first step in the creation of a complete streets plan. Here’s my recap.
Read moreMark Your Calendar: Complete Streets Workshop #1
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.
Read moreTraffic Citations Reach Record Lows in Beverly Hills in 2016
From 2008 (when the department made data available) though last year, police report that 3,805 people have been injured on city streets in collisions. Most concerning, the data show that the most protected travelers, auto occupants, suffered record-high injuries – so many that it pushed the overall injury totals to record highs too. In this post I crunch police data for citations to show that enforcement of traffic laws has withered on the vine.
Read moreCollision Injuries Reach Record-Highs in Beverly Hills in 2016
The holiday season always makes me mindful of the year drawing to a close. It has produced some noteworthy developments, including the involuntary retirement of incumbent councilmember (and bicycle lanes opponent) Nancy Krasne. And the succeeding multimodal-friendly City Council approved high-visibility bicycle lanes for Santa Monica Boulevard
Read moreComplete Streets Comes to Beverly Hills
Those of us waiting for Beverly Hills to update its Bicycle Master Plan may soon have cause to celebrate. On this, the 40th anniversary of the plan, which was adopted in 1977, the city appears poised to give it a refresh – and more! We look at the complete streets plan process and see what’s in store.
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