County Master Bike Plan Formally Approved

The County Board of Supervisors formally approved a county bike plan that includes a five-mile "bike boulevard" in Altadena that will include traffic-calming measures designed to slow vehicle traffic.

The board had voted in favor of the plan in February but asked for it to be brought back one final time on Tuesday with some revised language. The changes included removing language that suggested that traffic calming measures on Altadena's bike boulevard might be optional--the final plan says that those measures will be added along the route selected by the county.

According to the plan, those measures could include speed bumps, traffic circles, signage or even barriers on smaller side streets that would block cars from entering as a way to discourage car use of the boulevard.

The bike boulevard would run east to west in Altadena, starting at the intersection of Windsor Avenue and Ventura Steet.  It would run along Ventura, switch north to Calaveras east of Fair Oaks, then later to Mendocino Street, Midwick Drive, Glen Canyon Road and down Roosevelt Avenue (the proposed boulevard route is highlighted in purple on the map on the right). 

The route of that proposal has been changed several times since it was first discussed at a public meeting last year.  The time line for project completion would be some time between 2017 and 2027.

In addition to the bike boulevard, Altadena could also see a bike path that would start from just east of the border of Altadena and Pasadena on New York Drive and run south for 7.8 miles along the Eaton Wash, through East Pasadena and San Gabriel, to connect to the Rio Hondo bike path in El Monte.

The overall bike plan includes 832 miles of bike improvements throughout the county, and more than 60 miles of bike improvements in the West San Gabriel Valley alone.  The current county bike plan dates back to 1975.

For more on the plan check out the below past stories: