The city of Long Beach is undergoing a transformation: the goal of the council is to make Long Beach the most bike-friendly city in the USA. With a bike-friendly mayor and big support from the city council and many businesses, their plans are ambitious. They are thinking big and acting fast.
This is a great 5 minute clip. The city is creating physically protected cycleways, roads with unique green striping in the middle to keep bikes out of the door-zone (GREAT idea!), Southern California's first bicycle boulevard, and hundreds of additional bike racks. They also have a comprehensive education program in place for students, police, and transit operators (not covered in this clip).
This begs a question: Where could NZ's most bike-friendly city be in 2015? And how do we get our political representatives to support bike-friendly settlements that are Good for People, Good for Business, Good for the Local Economy & Good for the Environment?
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The League of American
The League of American Biyclists runs a prgramme called Bicycle Friendly Communities which I described in my presentation at the Cycling Conference last year, 2009.
Long Beach has a Bronze rating in this scheme, so has some way to go to be the most cycle frienly community. To learn more about the BFC scheme, go here