Bike lessons from Long Beach

Over the past five years, Long Beach has been accelerating its bicycle amenities in innovative ways.

With the county’s first bicycle master plan in decades heading into the homestretch, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and a team including engineers and members of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition recently hopped on bikes and took a look at what the future might hold.

On their cycling tour of Long Beach—which makes no secret of its aim of knocking Portland off its perch as America’s most bicycle-friendly city—they pedaled along innovative bike boulevards, green sharrows and a spectacular stretch of the Pacific.

Their takeaway: where there’s a will, there’s a bikeway. Ride along for a first-hand view.

Posted 1/19/12