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Very cool! I need to use this more for Los Angeles. The city is known to be one of the worst cycling cities in the US (and many parts are quite awful). But give

Very cool! I need to use this more for Los Angeles. The city is known to be one of the worst cycling cities in the US (and many parts are quite awful). But given that it is such a huge behemoth of sprawl there are also some quite amazing bike paths and places to cycle if you know where to go. And the LACBC is doing amazing work on getting that expanded - one day somewhat soon there should be a bike path running the entire LA river. On top of that Cyclavia is an amazing event I highly recommend anyone in the area participate in.

KennyBlanken 5y ago
LA is surprisingly progressive; it's (still, I believe) the only city in the US to outlaw harassment of a cyclist, though as always, good luck getting the police to do anything for you if you're on a bike. LA has a lot going for it in terms of biking for transport. Easy to navigate road system, the sprawl means bikes are an attractive alternative to walking, ditto for having pretty flat terrain.
- asdff 5y ago
  The a lot of the flat part of the city is pretty much a false flat though. The road system if you avoid arterials (which I do, who likes getting forced off Western Ave into a fruit cart by a truck loaded 10 feet wide with scrap metal?), is a labrynth of weird ends and incomplete connections. For example there is no great north south road that I've found at least. I take van ness but it ends in a three way intersection at third, so I do some other weird maneuvers to find another road like serrano to take a little further, then that peters out in a similar fashion so I have to find another decent non arterial that doesn't dead end or do anything else weird, then I have to consider how I am crossing the 10, etc. Biking in LA is great if you live in like Playa del Rey, Santa Monica, Burbank, Pasadena, or even Altadena, but in a lot of places it needs a ton of work to be seen as anything but a deathtrap in a lot of people's eyes. To say nothing of the rampant bike theft. I've lost one so far, knocking on wood.

KennyBlanken 5y ago

LA is surprisingly progressive; it's (still, I believe) the only city in the US to outlaw harassment of a cyclist, though as always, good luck getting the police to do anything for you if you're on a bike. LA has a lot going for it in terms of biking for transport. Easy to navigate road system, the sprawl means bikes are an attractive alternative to walking, ditto for having pretty flat terrain.

asdff 5y ago
The a lot of the flat part of the city is pretty much a false flat though. The road system if you avoid arterials (which I do, who likes getting forced off Western Ave into a fruit cart by a truck loaded 10 feet wide with scrap metal?), is a labrynth of weird ends and incomplete connections. For example there is no great north south road that I've found at least. I take van ness but it ends in a three way intersection at third, so I do some other weird maneuvers to find another road like serrano to take a little further, then that peters out in a similar fashion so I have to find another decent non arterial that doesn't dead end or do anything else weird, then I have to consider how I am crossing the 10, etc. Biking in LA is great if you live in like Playa del Rey, Santa Monica, Burbank, Pasadena, or even Altadena, but in a lot of places it needs a ton of work to be seen as anything but a deathtrap in a lot of people's eyes. To say nothing of the rampant bike theft. I've lost one so far, knocking on wood.