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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.
Urbanism & Development
Bike share for $5 per year? City of Long Beach says, ‘Yes—bike share for all’
In a move toward further transit and accessibility equity, the City of Long Beach has launched its Bike Share for All program, where eligible applicants can access it for $5 per year. Yes, five dollars.
Culture & Commentary
Why one of Long Beach’s most important foci should be limiting speeds on our most dangerous roads
In this guest commentary piece, Long Beach Transit Boardmember Michael Clemson breaks down how speed is one of our city's most dangerous characteristics.
Urbanism & Development
Volunteers sought for annual bicyclist and pedestrian count
The annual counting is an unquestionably important one as it gauges where most people tend to bike or walk, allowing city planners to better applicate its bike and pedestrian plans.
Events & Festivals
Beach Streets returns to turn stretches of roads into car-free havens for Long Beach
Tens of thousands of people have participated in the car-free events that allows bicyclists, skaters, walkers, and more to roam the streets safely—and it returns after a two year hiatus.
Urbanism & Development
Beach Streets returns with Gayborhood-to-DTLB event (yes, Pride party at Bixby Park included)
Tens of thousands of people have participated in the car-free events that allows bicyclists, skaters, walkers, and more to roam the streets safely—and this year, things are about to get more colorful.
Urbanism & Development
Long Beach to receive over $3M in SB1 funds to improve Market St. and Orange Ave. (cycle track included)
Passed in 2017, Senate Bill 1 uses over $5B annually to fix roads, freeways and bridges in communities across California, along with contributions toward transit. These funds are split equally between state and local investments.
Urbanism & Development
With car-centric plans put forth for Santa Fe, West Long Beach pedestrians and bicyclists could lose out without speaking up
Despite the city's Master Bicycle Plan calling for Santa Fe Avenue in West Long Beach to be a much more protected street for bicyclists and pedestrians, plans as proposed downsize that safety.
