LABP: Bike Working Group III, Saturday (11/100)

Saturday we’re having Bike Working Group III, for the die hard bike wonks and the lonely souls who didn’t leave town (RSVP on Facebook.)  We’ll be continuing work on LA’s Best Bike Plan, the bike plan created for cyclists, by cyclists.  We’ll start work at 1pm, at the Hollywood Adventist Church (1711 N. Van Ness Ave), and go till about 4pm.  Afterward no doubt we’ll go for food and talk strategy.

Last time we identified our 5 most important design principles:

• Genesis: Every street is a street cyclists will ride
• All City: Create a Backbone bikeway network that will get cyclists from any part of the city to any other
• Action: LA must commit to implement key measures within 2 years
• Transformation: Neighborhood pilots projects to create pockets of ultra bike friendliness, including bike boulevards.
• Equality: The Cyclists’ Bill of Rights is the foundation for the plan.

Last time we got started on identifying streets for the back bone network.  This time we’ll start with that, getting a solid discussion going on which streets and what should go on them.  Then we’ll spend some time identifying what programs the City of LA could implement as low hanging fruit in other categories, and what measures we want implemented within 2 years of adoption.

Come by, and lets work!

(Photo by Mr. Rollers)