Community Stakeholder Meeting Thursday February 25
Pacific Community Center Main Entrance
There will be a Community Stakeholder meeting for the Safe & Healthy Streets Plan on Thursday, February 25, 7:00 pm at Pacific Park Community Center in the Sycamore Room. Many of you attended our stakeholder meeting way back in the spring of 2009. We’d like to update you about what’s happening with the Safe & Healthy Streets Plan and how you can get involved. We need your help! Food will be provided, courtesy of El Morfi Grill. Pacific Park Community Center is located at 501. S. Pacific Ave. There is a bike rack in the plaza in front of the main entrance. Car parking is located on Riverdale Drive and Kenilworth Ave. There’s a bus stop at the intersection of Pacific and Riverdale, the southeast corner of the community center and park (Metro and Beeline buses stop there). Click here for the Community Center website. Please RSVP to colin@la-bike.org if you can attend.
Glendale News-Press Article and Editorial
Last week the Glendale News-Press published an article about Bicycle Master Plans and the need for Glendale to catch up with neighboring communities such as Burbank, Pasadena, and The City of Los Angeles. If you missed the article, you can click here to read it. The News-Press followed up the article over the weekend with an editorial that you can read by clicking here. We’ve been told that the City intends to begin work on updating the Bicycle Master Plan this summer. We’ll be helping to publicize this effort which should include some community input meetings. Stay tuned for that.
We encourage you to write to the Glendale City Council and the News-Press that you support updating the Bicycle Master Plan. A short note that states who you are and that you’d like the city to update the plan is all that’s needed. Bike lanes are coming to Foothill Blvd. in Glendale this summer, along with more sharrows and bike racks in various parts of the City. If you’d like to add comments in support of these projects, that would be great.
Glendale Bicyclist and Pedestrian Survey
We have launched an online survey to collect information that we didn’t get from the community meetings in the fall of 2009. If you live, work, or go to school in Glendale (or if you sometimes walk or ride a bike in Glendale), we want you to complete this survey! The information we collect will be used to help draft the Safe & Healthy Streets Plan. Please take a few minutes and click the link below to take the survey. Thank you!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GlendaleBikePedSurvey
Quick Reminders
Glendale Downtown Dash Family Fun Bike Ride - Sunday March 14
LA Street Summit - Saturday March 20
10th Annual Los Angeles River Ride - Sunday June 6