Bike Lanes Coming to Main Street!

The City of LA is getting ready to implement bike lanes along Main Street spanning from 9th Street to 16th Street/Venice Blvd. This will extend the new southbound bike lane on Spring Street (north of 9th) and connect to a future northbound bike lane on Main from 9th to Cesar Chavez.

Part of a larger project to connect South LA to Downtown & Northeast LA, this 0.7 mile project will connect to the 1.5 mile bike lane on Spring, creating a 2.2 mile continuous bike facility linking the following neighborhoods:
• Fashion District
• Historic Core
• Civic Center
• El Pueblo
• Chinatown

Bike Lane Benefits:
The bike lanes will make Main Street safer for people driving, bicycling, and walking and support healthy lifestyles, as the City will remove a southbound travel lane to create space for bike lanes.

Other benefits of this project include:
• No loss of on-street parking or loading zones
• Will not significantly reduce vehicle travel time
• Better access to businesses, jobs and other destinations along Main Street by people walking and biking
• More room on sidewalks for pedestrians because bicyclists will be using bike lanes
• More trips by bike and walking leads to less congestion

Fact In the last five years along Main Street in the Fashion District there have been 20 collisions involving vehicles with pedestrians or bikes: 12 vehicle/pedestrian collisions; and 8 vehicle/bike collisions.

for more information:
Paul Habib, Councilman Jose Huizar, CD 14
(213) 473-7014 | Paul.Habib@lacity.org

Marie Rumsey, Councilwoman Jan Perry, CD 9
(213) 473-5946 | Marie.Rumsey@lacity.org