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Free Bike Workshop
Second workshop October 2nd
Today’s Fun – After Party 7-9 open to all — FREEEE
Cause for Creativity: Tour da Arts, vol. 2
Sunday, August 22, 2010
2:00pm
Pedal on over to SMMoA for the second annual Cause for Creativity: Tour da Arts and Urban Expeditions event!! Festivities include: bike checks, spoke card workshop, live performances, and a closing party.
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Bicycle Round Table
Although the agenda and committee has already been set for our first meeting, we do need input from the community for these important meetings to be a success!! Please become involved we’d love your input!
Santa Monica Spoke is embarking on a series of meetings with Assistant City Manger Jennifer Phillips. Santa Monica Cyclists have joined together to speak with one voice, to help the city to achieve the next stage on the ladder bicycle friendly community awards: Let’s go for Gold!
We enter these meetings with a wide range of issues: From bicycle parking to cycling education, from bicycle boulevards to encouragement rides, from Ciclovia street openings to the bicycle license, from distracted driving to beach path connections. But behind this divergence of areas there is one big single issue: To create a viable conversation between cyclists and ALL departments of the city.
The outcome is open: Will it be a bicycle coordinator? or a Bicycle Commission? Or perhaps a bicycle task force? Perhaps it will be a policy which makes sure that bicycle interests are represented on commissions that deal with planning, with business development, with the police and the schools.
It is important to hear from all our cyclists right now, and we invite you to join the conversation on facebook, or become part of the google group in order to join the voice that is speaking with the city representatives. We need to hear about your issues, and we need your active participation in this process. What are the simple improvements that would make cycling enjoyable, safer, and more common. What are the long term aims, and how should be proceed to achieve them ? Now is the time to share your insights and your issues!
Sustainable City Progress Report:
Status: Poor; Trend: Stable
If you are wondering how we are doing in the bicycle friendly community, here is an update: It dates from August 2009, and it resides here
Transportation Indicators: Bike Lanes
Proportion of Arterial Streets with Bike Lanes – 2007
INDICATOR
Percentage of arterial streets which have bike lanes;
Total miles of bike paths, lanes and routes.
DESCRIPTION
This indicator tracks the percentage of arterial streets which have designated bike lanes and number of miles of bike paths in the city. The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) conducted a study which found that separated bike paths like the South Bay Bicycle Path that runs along the beach in Santa Monica are generally perceived by the public to be “the safest bikeway facility,” but concluded that despite that perception, separate bike paths do not promote commuter cycling.
The FHA study found that the public consider bike paths useful in facilitating RECREATIONAL, not COMMUTER biking. Evidently bike lanes within commuter arteries and not separate bike paths can potentially attract commute users. For this reason, the city has identified a target of 35% of arterial streets to have bike lanes AND for there to be an increase in the number of bike paths. To illuminate this discussion, please see the definition of Bike lanes, paths and routes in the section below.
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
There are 130 miles of arterial streets in Santa Monica. Bike lanes are designated on 13 total miles of roadway. Of these, 3.78 miles of designated bike lanes are on arterial streets. That means less than 3% of Santa Monica’s arterial streets have bike lanes, a figure which falls short of the city’s 35% target for 2010. In addition to designated bike lanes, there is one bike path that is 3.11 miles long and 20 bike routes covering 18.78 miles.
STATUS
Poor
TREND
Stable