Politics & Government

Altadena 'Bike Boulevard' to Get County Hearing Wednesday

A plan to put in traffic-slowing measures on Altadena streets will go before a county planning commission for approval Wednesday. The Altadena Town Council will get a presentation on the plan on Tuesday.

A county planning commission will review and vote on a county master bike plan that includes a five-mile designated "bike boulevard" for Altadena and a new bike path of nearly eight miles starting from Eaton Canyon that would complete a bike path that would run all the way down to Long Beach.

The bike boulevard would run east to west in Altadena along the following streets: Harriet Street, then switch to Calveras Steet, and wind through Mendocino Street, Midwick Drive, Glen Canyon Road and down Roosevelt Avenue (the proposed boulevard route is highlighted in purple on the map on right).

Those streets would continue to accommodate cars, but would have traffic calming measures designed to slow drivers down.

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The plan will be voted on by the County Regional Planning Commission during a 9 a.m. hearing on Wednesday at 320 West Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles.  If approved, it would pass on to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for final approval.

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A county official will also present a summary of the plan to the Altadena Town Council on Tuesday night during their regular meeting.

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.

That would mean a stand-alone bike path that would run from Eaton Canyon all the way down to Long Beach, a dream that local open space and recreation groups, including the Arroyo & Foothills Conservancy have advocated for years.

The bike plan includes improvements for unincorporated areas all over the county and would result in more than 60 miles of bike improvements in the West San Gabriel Valley alone, though over half of those would be bike routes, which involve adding road signs identifying an existing road as a preferred place for cyclists to ride.

The rest of the improvements would be striped bike lanes, the bike path, and Altadena's bike boulevard.

With Board of Supervisors approval, the Bike Boulevard would be part of the second phase of the county's plan, meaning it would likely be completed some time between 2017 and 2027, according to Abu Yusuf, the county's Bike Plan Coordinator.

For more information on the hearing, plans, and a place to watch Wednesday's meeting, click here.


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