While adding new bike lanes can be a long and contentious process, removing them in favor of parking requires no public process.
In an article in Streetsblog LA, Joe Linton reveals six streets where Los Angeles Department of Transportation officials recently removed bike lanes to install curbside car parking. According to Linton, removing bike lanes to add parking, unlike the onerous process of approving new bike lanes, “can be done with no public process whatsoever.”
Linton notes that the city also frequently removes or blocks bike lanes temporarily for construction projects, and that “There are also LADOT parking expansion projects that effectively blocked future planned or proposed bike lanes (including bikeway upgrades).”
Linton lists several specific examples, explaining that “These are just the examples that Streetsblog has come across. But these are difficult to find. Cities rarely announce when they remove bike infrastructure.”
FULL STORY: Where L.A. City Is Quietly Removing Bike Lanes and Adding On-Street Car Parking
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