City Council to Review Bike Plan

As the aims to interconnect biking routes across seven cities in the area—including Hermosa Beach—it must be approved by those city councils before implementation.

So far, commissions from all of the seven South Bay cities included in the plan have OK-ed the final draft. The in September. Now the councils are ready to vote.

The bike plan will be presented to the on Oct. 25.

Before coming to Hermosa, the plan will be considered in El Segundo on Tuesday, Lawndale on Oct. 17 then Redondo Beach on Oct. 18. The councils in Gardena, Manhattan Beach, and Torrance will review the plan in November.

Marissa Christiansen, the South Bay initiative director, said in a statement Monday that the bike plan is "the first even multi-jurisdictional bike plan… together we’re making bike planning history and are providing a new and improved model for cities all over the globe to follow."

Once approved, the plan, funded by $240,000 from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, would add 213.8 miles of bike pathways to the 73.2 miles of pathways that currently span across the seven South Bay cities.

The plan could lead to bike "facilities" (which are stations of bike racks and bike lanes) opening around town.

In Hermosa Beach, it also focuses on two project sites: bikeability on Prospect Avenue, from Artesia Boulevard to Anita Street, and Longfellow Avenue, from Hermosa Avenue to Valley Drive (see accompanying bike plan draft next to photo.)

The plan would take about 20 years to implement, from 2012 to 2032, according to the South Bay Bicycle Coalition. A copy of the entire plan is available to view online.

Before the City Council discusses this, voice your opinion now—what do you think of the South Bay Bike Master Plan?