Live near the Willmore area of Long Beach? Find and report what needs to be fixed in your neighborhood next week during a community walk audit.
Walk and Roll Long Beach, the city health department’s bike and pedestrian safety program, will host a community walk audit from 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 31 around Pacific Avenue near Drake Park.
Participants will take a 2.3 mile guided walk near Pacific Avenue starting from Drake Park to observe street conditions and identify safety concerns. Feedback will be shared to help create safer, more walkable streets for bicyclists and pedestrians in Long Beach.
Attendees will also share their existing safety concerns and challenges they experience day to day as locals within the current infrastructure.
The neighborhood, after all, is a piece of the entire city’s origins that residents and city officials have worked to preserve over the years.
Willmore, a historic downtown neighborhood along Pacific Avenue between Fourth and 10th streets, was the first historic district declared in Long Beach, according to the Downtown Long Beach Alliance. Long Beach was originally called Willmore City before it was renamed to what it’s known as today, it added.
Walk and Roll, meanwhile, also offers free education and resources to help prevent bike and pedestrian collisions and support healthier, more connected communities.
If you go
The community walk audit is from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 31 starting at Drake Park, 951 Maine Ave.
Sign up for the walk at forms.office.com/g/0JkNm6BLrs.
Information: longbeach.gov; or Kaelin Peterson, Walk and Roll Long Beach coordinator, kaelin.peterson@longbeach.gov or 562-570-4397.