something_random_tho

Culver City and the Expo Bike Path

https://lemmy.world/post/16790226

Culver City and the Expo Bike Path - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16790112 [https://lemmy.world/post/16790112] > Just tried commuting on my bike from Santa Monica to downtown Culver City today. I took the Exposition bike path, which was fine until I needed to get off of it to head south. > > Google recommended I take National and–lo and behold–there’s no bike lane with cars flying past at 55mph+ on blind hills. That’s a death trap. > > On the way home I left early to avoid traffic. I took Venice Blvd, since it has a protected bike lane all the way until McLaughlin which Google Maps called “bicycle friendly.” No bike lane, of course, with cars flying past leaving a foot of distance between me and death. One testy driver in a BMW didn’t want to wait the 15 seconds for me to pedal into the left turn lane to get back onto the Exposition bike path, honking and then flying by nearly killing me. Jeez lady, I’m not the city planner. Don’t kill me to save 15 seconds. > > How does Culver City put zero bike lanes going north to south connecting to the Exposition path? How do these drivers maintain their licenses? > > What’s a cyclist to do?

Jun 22, 2024 at 12:01amWeb
Show thread418teapotAug 17, 2024

I often take the expo bike path to Culver. It should get better this year when they finally connect the bike path to Motor, but until they do I usually take one of two routes:

Take the expo bike path east until it ends at Overland, then take Northvale (a small residential street, but very hilly) to Motor (painted bike lanes but wide and feels fairly safe), to National (painted bike lanes, very low traffic), and at that point the expo bike path resumes again. You can take that all the way to Ivy station, or if you want to go further west I usually exit it at Durango, enter the parking lot there and cross Venice with the light onto Culver blvd which after 1 block has great bike lanes.

When I want to avoid the hills on Northvale, I exit the expo bike path onto Midvale, Right on Coventry, Left on Kelton (all of these are small residential streets). Then I take that all the way down to Venice.

Show threadsomething_random_thoAug 17, 2024
Thank you, kind stranger. I’ll check out these routes!