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Good Plans + Safe Roads = Better Biking

Aaron Kunz

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Santa Monica Leads, Beverly Hills Hardly Follows

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Santa Monica continues to be a regional leader when it comes to supporting multimodal mobility and enhancing street safety. It has installed many miles of bicycle lanes (included protected bikeways) and has emerged as a municipal leader with development policies crafted to put a lid on new vehicle trips downtown. Not least, City Hall is working with the community advocates to bring Vision Zero principles to bear on the transportation planning process. What about Beverly Hills?

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Complete Streets Walk Audit Recap

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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!

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City Council pictured in 2013.
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Back on the Priority List: The Beverly Hills Bike Plan!

Mark Elliot 0 Comments , , , , , , ,

Among the ignominious developments over the last year in Beverly Hills, surely the one of greatest interest to bicycle riders was City Council’s decision not to include a bicycle lane on Santa Monica Boulevard. But on its heels came another decision: to step away entirely from an update to our 1977 Bicycle Master Plan. But we called it out!

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