News and Events

Last Wednesday, the LA County Planning Commission heard a presentation from the LA County Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Department of Regional Planning (DRP) present on the draft LA County Bicycle Master Plan, which covers the many unincorporated communities of LA County.

While we feel the current draft plan has improved since the first draft and we acknowledge the complexities of planning bikeways for such a large and geographically diverse area, we feel there are still some improvements to the plan that need to be made. You can view some of our concerns on the LACBC blog, read coverage of the meeting on Supervisor Yaroslavsky's blog, or view our tweets of the meeting here.

So we are pleased that the LA County Planning Commission has deferred making a decision to approve the Plan until January 11th, 2012. Thanks to everyone who came to yesterday's meeting or wrote letters demanding a better bike plan. We hope to work with LA County DPW and DRP between now and then to address some of the issues we think could easily be remedied.

This also means you have an opportunity to submit your comments on the various bikeways, policies, and programs in the Plan to the LA County Planning Commission and DPW. Submit your comments to: Rruiz@planning.lacounty.gov, AYUSUF@dpw.lacounty.gov and of course to us (info@la-bike.org) - so we better represent your needs and concerns!