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Bicycling
Urbanism & Development
Long Beach’s Orange Avenue Backbone Bikeway project is an important cog for safety
The Orange Avenue Backbone Bikeway is Long Beach's largest biking infrastructure project, revisioning the arterial from Ocean Boulevard in the south to Jackson Street in the north.
Urbanism & Development
IN PHOTOS: Beach Streets Uptown takes over North Long Beach
On Saturday, the city of Long Beach hosted the latest iteration of its popular open streets festival: Beach Streets.
Events & Festivals
Beach Streets 2024 will arrive in North Long Beach this Saturday
After fear that not a single Beach Streets event would happen in 2024 at all due to a lack of funding, city officials have formally cleared the way for Beach Streets Uptown to move forward in the fall.
Urbanism & Development
Long Beach traffic circles? We have more than any other city in the state
Traffic circles aren't quite ubiquitous in Long Beach, but they're around. Riding and walking through the city one encounters circles in neighborhoods rich and poor, new and old.
Urbanism & Development
Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach was to receive fully protected bike lanes; that could change
Caltrans initially had Class IV bike lanes—fully protected bike lanes that separate bicyclists and motorists with hard physical barriers like curbs—planned for its rehabilitation...
Urbanism & Development
Thank the bicycle gods: A guide to the new curb-protected Long Beach bike lanes
Concrete curbs are real protection compared to plastic bollard posts that errant drivers regularly mow down—and the fact that four new Long Beach bike lanes feature them means there is hope.
Culture & Commentary
Maritime Bicycle Courier—Long Beach’s sole bike deliverer—quietly and permanently shutters business
Long Beach has officially lost one of its most unique (and green) businesses: Maritime Bicycle Courier, the nearly decade-long delivery service that used bicyclists, has permanently shut down.
Urbanism & Development
Bike path connecting DTLB to International Gateway Bridge officially opens
Bicycling advocates have long dreamed of a seamless ride from the beaches of our shoreline to the sweeping views atop the bridges that connect the Port to DTLB—and that day has come.
