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An assessment of bicycle access to park space for communities along the Los Angeles River.
Bicycle Access
Bicycle Access
Bicycle access to parks is also an important part of a commitment to making active transportation easy and accessible in the city's parks. Bicycles serve as both a form of transportation and exercise, and are an important part of any park's transportation system. Ideally a park should be easily accessed via safe bicycle facilities on an adjacent street and have sufficient infrastructure, like bike racks, to accommodate visitors traveling there on bike.
Bicycle Infrastructure
Bicycle Infrastructure
This map depicts the bicycle infrastructure near parks in Northeast LA River neighborhoods. This map only includes Class I (bike paths), Class II (bike lanes), and Class IV (separated bike lanes) since these are the types of bicycle infrastructure that explicitly designate a portion of space in the right-of-way for bikes. These bike lanes are most likely to make someone feel comfortable biking on a street.
While there are a significant number of bike lanes throughout the northeast LA River neighborhoods, some of the infrastructure can end up quite disjointed. For example San Fernando Road has a Class II bike lane as it lasss Rio de Los Angeles Park, but this ends before it gets to parks further north like Sotomayor High School or Chevy Chase Park. Ideally, entire corridors would have bike facilities making it easy to travel from one park to another using major corridors with protected bike lanes.
Good Bike Access: Lincoln Park
Good Bike Access: Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park has relatively good bicycle connections with a striped bike lane fronting the park on Mission Road from east to west and a striped bike lane nearby on Griffin Avenue for north-south connections. These bike lanes make it easy to access the park via major roads that connect to the rest of Northeast LA.
Class II bike lane along Mission Road near Lincoln Park. The signalized intersection also has a bike crossing treatment.
Class II bike lane along Mission Road near Lincoln Park.
Class II bike lane along Griffin Road near Lincoln Park.
Signage directing bikes to the LA River near North Atwater Park. This kind of signage can play an important role in circulation for parks near bike facilities.
Bike parking along the LA River near Lewis MacAdams Park. This is important for parks adjacent to bike facilities like the LA River Bike Path.
Limited Bike Access:
Limited Bike Access:
Chevy Chase Park
Chevy Chase Park
Chevy Chase Park does not have any bicycle facilities in the nearby vicinity of the park. This is particularly concerning because the park is located only one block away from the busy San Fernando Road. Additionally, there is a striped bike lane further south along San Fernando Road near parks like Rio de Los Angeles. Ideally, this bike lane should be extended further north to help with connections to parks like Chevy Chase and North Atwater Park which rely on San Fernando Road as the primary north-south road for long distance trips.
There is no bike infrastructure along Chevy Chase Drive.
No bike infrastructure along Alger Street adjacent to Chevy Chase Park.
Chevy Chase Park has a skate park, but did not have any bike racks or any place for visitors to store their bikes.
Striped bike lane along San Fernando Road near Rio de Los Angeles State Park. Ideally this bike lane would be extended along San Fernando Road up to the portion near Chevy Chase Park.
Questions?
Questions?
Contact gderleth@usc.edu to get more information on the project or info@clockshop.org for more information on Clockshop's work.
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