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Report: More People Bicycling in Los Angeles

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Bicycle use in Los Angeles has increased since 2011. (Thinkstock)

The number of people bicycling in Los Angeles is up 7.5 percent since 2011, according to a report out on May 12.

The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition released the results of a six-hour bike count conducted over several days in September 2013.

The count was done at 120 different locations around the City, with volunteers recording a total of 18,000 bicyclists.

Bicycle ridership was heaviest during the afternoon and evening commute hours, compared weekend and morning commute hours, suggesting that people bicycle mainly for transportation, according to the report.

Bicyclists tend to prefer areas with dedicated bike facilities, such as bike paths and streets with bike lanes, the report suggests. Following the installation of bike lanes and so-called sharrows – lanes on minor streets shared by car and bicycle traffic – bicycling in some areas more than doubled, according to the report.

The report also suggests a gender disparity in bicycle ridership, with female bicyclists making up less than a fifth of the bicyclists counted. The disparity was “lowest on the highest quality bikeway,” with the disparity most pronounced “on streets with no bike facilities at all,” according to the report.

The report’s authors said “cities with streets that are safe and comfortable for bicycling tend to have smaller gender disparities in rates of bicycling,” concluding that “when bicycle networks are designed to be both safe and comfortable, people don’t need a high risk tolerance to bicycle for everyday transportation.”

Wherever there was bike infrastructure, there were also fewer instances of rules being flouted. Bicyclists were less inclined to use sidewalks or go the wrong way on streets with bike facilities, the report also said.

The report recommends adopting an “8 to 80” standard in the City’s 2035 mobility plan that aims to make bicycling accessible and comfortable for people with a wider range of ages from the young to the old.

It also recommends that the City work with the Los Angeles Unified School District to incorporate bike safety into its physical education curriculum.

Another recommendation was to have the City do regular bike and pedestrian counts and to use the data to guide its transportation planning.

Councilman Mike Bonin, who represents several Westside communities such as Brentwood, announced the report’s results during the kick-off of Bike Week L.A., a weeklong slate of bike-related activities such as a bicycle blessing event and a bike-to-work day on Thursday.

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