Campaigns

LACBC is campaigning for protected bike lanes, also known as cycle tracks to be implemented on Spring & Main Streets in Downtown Los Angeles. We are working closely with members of the Downtown LA Neighborhood Council (DLANC) Complete Streets Working Group to help make this vision a reality, but we want to see something done right away to build off the momentum generated from the ThinkBike workshop. So we are advocating for buffered bicycle lanes to be implemented in order to "colonize" the space now and make it easier to implement protected bike lanes in the near future. 

An ideal Neighborhood Greenway, 4th Street is one of the major east-west commuting streets for bicyclists in the City of Los Angeles. LACBC has been working on the 4th Street Neighborhood Greenway campaign for more than a year, continuing the work that members of the bike community have been doing for many years.

In March 2011, the City of LA adopted the 2010 City of LA Bicycle Plan.  Through LACBC's advocacy efforts, the Plan was transformed to provide a vision for a much more bike-able Los Angeles and includes the tools that ensure implementation, provide accountability, and prioritizes low-income communities with the greatest need and highest rates of collisions. LACBC mobilized major political support and won commitments from the City for a stronger L.A. City Bike Plan.

In April 2011, LACBC launched a campaign to demand a stronger bicycle master plan for the unincorporated communities in LA County.  LACBC is pressuring the County to increase the mileage of bike lanes, bicycle boulevards, and routes with sharrows included in the draft 2011 County Bike Plan. We want the County to prioritize safety through better engineering, creating accountability, and prioritizing infrastructure investments in urban unincorporated areas that have disproportionately high rates of collisions. 

The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and Safe Routes to School National Partnership (SRTSNP) have partnered together to work with the City of Los Angeles to develop a successful citywide Safe Routes to School plan as outlined in the 2010 City of Los Angeles Bicycle Plan (Policy 1.1.2 D).