{"id":273205,"date":"2010-02-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8518a09970b"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:36:36","slug":"l-a-activists-float-idea-of-%e2%80%98freeway%e2%80%99-system-for-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/273205","title":{"rendered":"L.A. activists float idea of \u2018freeway\u2019 system for bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a85193c5970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Labbp_map_central(2)\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a85193c5970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a85193c5970b-600wi\" style=\"width: 600px;\"><\/img><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> While Los Angeles city officials and hired consultants tinker with the draft of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labikeplan.org\/\">mammoth bike plan<\/a>, vocal critics in the cycling community complain it does not include enough new bike lanes and presents a mishmash of paths and routes that are unintelligible to the average cyclist.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of merely nay-saying, one group of cycling advocates and bloggers known as the L.A. Bike Working Group is developing an <a href=\"http:\/\/labikeplan.com\/\">alternative bike plan<\/a>. They are starting with a network of long-distance bike routes they are comparing to a freeway system for cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>Conceptual maps of the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsidebikeside.com\/the-backbone-bikeway-network-labp-20100\/\">Backbone Bikeway Network<\/a> envision a network of long-distance routes designed to provide cyclists safe passage between different neighborhoods along heavily-traveled corridors, including Wilshire, Venice, Whittier and Sepulveda boulevards.\n<\/p>\n<p> &quot;The city really is more palatable when you have a straight shot through it, with less lights and less stop signs,&quot; said Mihai Peteu, 28, who helped design the map after holding public meetings with cyclists throughout the city. &quot;I think cyclists deserve to have something similar to the freeway system.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just an idea, Peteu said. But given a little funding to paint bike lanes, improve the pavement and create shared bike-car lanes called sharrows, such a system could give cyclists a speedier way around town.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Tony Barboza<\/p>\n<p><em>Graphic courtesy of L.A. Bike Working Group<\/em><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Los Angeles city officials and hired consultants tinker with the draft of a mammoth bike plan, vocal critics in the cycling community complain it does not include enough new bike lanes and presents a mishmash of paths and routes that are unintelligible to the average cyclist. But instead of merely nay-saying, one group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}