{"id":284525,"date":"2026-04-24T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:58:10","slug":"friday-bike-updates-new-2nd-street-bike-lane-and-two-upcoming-ciclavias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284525\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Bike Updates: New 2nd Street Bike Lane, and Two Upcoming CicLAvias"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LongBeachize_Ad_Concepts\"<\/a>This article is supported by Los Angeles Bicycle Attorney as part of a general sponsorship package. All opinions in the article are that of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of LABA. Click on the ad for more information.<\/p>\n

Three bicycling news briefs for your weekend reading:<\/p>\n

CicLAvia West L.A. is this Sunday April 26<\/p>\n

Two days away: The first-ever CicLAvia event for Westwood! It\u2019s an easy bike ride distance from several Metro E Line<\/a> stations, including Westwood\/Rancho Park. It\u2019s free, fun, fabulous, family-friendly, and fantastic. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Westwood Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard will be closed to cars. Participants can bike, walk, skate, etc. as much or as little as you like. Find event details at the CicLAvia webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"CicLAvia West L.A. is this Sunday<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s coming this Sunday?<\/p>\n

CicLAvia will return to South L.A. on Sunday June 28<\/p>\n

This week, CicLAvia shared the route map for the next CicLAvia event. CicLAvia will return to South L.A. on Sunday, June 28, with \u2018Leimert Park meets Expo Park\u2019 presented by Metro.<\/p>\n

\"\"June 28 CicLAvia route on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Crenshaw Avenue<\/p>\n

Find June CicLAvia details at the CicLAvia webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Short new bike lane on 2nd Street<\/p>\n

The L.A. City Department of Transportation (LADOT) recently added about 230 feet of new westbound bike lane on 2nd Street between Spring Street and Broadway \u2013 at the Metro A\/E Line Historic Broadway Station.<\/p>\n

\"\"New westbound bike lane on Second Street<\/p>\n

About 100 feet of the new lane are plastic-bollard-protected, and about 130 feet are unprotected. The bikeway closes a gap between the Spring Street protected lanes and bike lanes on Second, which extend through the tunnel under Bunker Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To add the short new bike lane, LADOT removed a right turn only lane. Metro installed that turn lane in 2023 when Metro widened 2nd Street for the new Historic Broadway Station. (For what it\u2019s worth, the turn lane had been installed intermittently during Metro construction, and was made permanent in 2023.)<\/p>\n

\"\"2023 photo of the then-new one-way eastbound-only bike lane on 2nd Street in front of Regional Connector Broadway Station<\/p>\n

Advocates pointed out that, in 2023, Metro and LADOT failed to follow city-approved downtown street standards (approved in 2009), favoring adding car capacity instead of first-last-mile (FLM) station connections<\/a>. Metro and LADOT responded that they had to balance bike\/walk station access with \u201cparking and traffic maintenance\u201d priorities<\/a>, but would \u201cidentify opportunities for further FLM and mobility enhancements in the station areas.\u201d It took three years, and now most of one block (of more than a dozen missing FLM facility blocks) of bikeway is completed.<\/p>\n

The new bike lane fails to comply with current city plans<\/a> (Mobility Plan 2035, approved in 2015), which designates protected bike lanes for this entire block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article is supported by Los Angeles Bicycle Attorney as part of a general sponsorship package. All opinions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,109921],"class_list":{"0":"post-284525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-promoted"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}