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This weekend LADOT will put the final touches on the Main Street bike lanes from 9th Street to Venice Blvd/16th Street, which were mostly completed last weekend. These bike lanes are standard bike lanes, meaning there is no buffer or green pavement treatment, but they are a welcome addition to the growing bike network in Downtown Los Angeles.

Our campaign for bike lanes on Spring & Main street continues as we advocate for the completion of the Main Street bike lane from 9th to Cesar Chavez. LACBC, in partnership with Downtown LA Neighborhood Council, are advocating for this project to mirror Spring Street with a green pavement treatment and buffer to complete this pilot project. 

We want to see more green pavement treatments implemented across the city and buffered bike lanes, but first we want the city to make sure the green pavement treatments are going to last. As we reported previously, LADOT is planning on testing several treatments on Spring Street to find a better solution to installing a green pavement treatment on a mix of cement and asphalt pavement.

While there has been talk this week regarding the film industry's opinion of the green paint treatment, we encourage the city to continue to expand this treatment in downtown LA and on Main Street. We want to see the treatment perfected on Spring Street & 1st Street first so that when this treatment is installed on Main Street and other streets in the city, it will last years. LACBC has met with staff at the Mayor's office to urge them to continue to move forward with the Main Street project and continue to grow the Downtown LA bike network. The green pavement treatment can always be installed later, but implementing the buffered bike lanes can hopefully happen sooner rather than later so that residents, visitors, and workers have a north bound route to complement the southbound Spring St. bike lane. 

The Westside Cities Council of Governments (WSCCOG)  has been working on a WSCCOG regional bicycle safety and awareness plan since last year.  An important element of the plan are recommendations to connect the Westside Cities through implementing bicycle infrastructure projects.  The recommended projects or "gap closures" will create a basic regional bicycle infrastructure network to provide north/south and east/west connections. Individual cities within the WSCCOG will then be encouraged to implement projects these projects and close gaps in their route systems.

The following priority gap closures were presented to the WSCCOG Board on January 19, 2012

• Santa Monica Blvd./Broadway (from La Brea Blvd. to Ocean Ave.)
• San Vicente Blvd. (from Sunset Blvd. to La Brea Blvd.)
• Barrington Ave./McLaughlin Ave./Slauson Ave. (from Sunset Blvd. to the Ballona Creek Bike Path)
• Beverly Dr./Beverwil Dr./Duquesne Ave./Jefferson Blvd./Overland Ave.(from San Vicente to Westfield/Culver City Transit Center)
• Expo Light Rail Bike Path/Bikeway (from La Brea Blvd. to the western terminus of Phase 2)

To view a map of the proposed  routes click here. WSCCOG is accepting comments now through March 4, 2012. The results of the comment period will be brought to the Board at its March 15, 2012 meeting in Culver City. Email your comments to the WSCCOG at Bikeinput.wsccog@gmail.com