A Bridge Too Wide?

Controversy dogs the efforts to include bike lanes and sidewalks in the refurb of Los Angeles’s Glendale/Hyperion bridge complex, with motorists screaming that it’s unthinkable to consider removing even one car lane to accommodate all users…yet: the city’s engineering study quietly notes that closing TWO lanes during construction will have no impact on motor traffic….

http://t.co/xVYcU2YtBq

The local complete streets community has filed a lawsuit to reconsider plans that suppress one sidewalk and compromise bicycle facilities to preserve high-speed motor traffic capacity:

http://la.streetsblog.org/2015/07/07/vision-hyperion-advocates-sue-city-claiming-inadequate-study-of-bridge-redesign/

Rick
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Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
http://gridlogisticsinc.com
http://www.rickrise.com