BH Unified: Our Best Opportunity for Safe Streets?
There has been little progress in Beverly Hills on making our streets safe for cyclists. Despite a nearly two-year old outstanding request to replace the sorry bike rack at the Civic Center; despite a...
View ArticleOpen Letter to BH Traffic and Parking Commission
To: Bev Hills Traffic & Parking Commission From: Better Bike Re: Total lack of progress This week we at Better Bike celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Ad-Hoc Bike Plan Update Committee’s...
View ArticleSafe Routes to School: Coming to BH Unified?
Safe Routes to School improvements for BH Unified school district? Recently we mentioned the Beverly Hills Unified district’s master planning process in which a needs assessment and facilities redesign...
View ArticleStakeholders’ Agenda for the 8/29 Ad-Hoc Bike Committee
When last we checked in with Aaron Kunz, Deputy Director for Transportation in the Department of Public Works in Beverly Hills, he sounded an optimistic note about future bike planning efforts here:...
View ArticleBike Plan Update Committee Meeting #2
The Beverly Hills Bike Plan Update Committee met with bike and active transportation advocates for the second time this past Monday. The committee, which is an ad-hoc body under the Commission, need...
View ArticleBeverly Hills Bike Update
Here at Better Bike we’re wondering if cyclists may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel after all for bike improvements. After our August meeting with the ad-hoc Bike Plan Update Committee, we...
View ArticleBicycle Plan on City Council Priorities List
Good news: bike planning has made it onto the City Council priorities list. The ‘B’ priority item, ‘Citywide Bike Plan,’ envisions by 2014 a “comprehensive plan to create bicycle paths throughout the...
View ArticleBike Route Pilot Process: [Too Much] Room for Improvement
Traffic and Parking Commission deliberates over the five Pilot program bike routes. Now that Traffic & Parking Commission has recommended three of five proposed Pilot program routes, the action...
View ArticleT&P Commission to Discuss Bike Plan Update
Thirty-five years after Beverly Hills adopted a Bicycle Master Plan [pdf], and three years after an ad-hoc committee was formed to update it, we’re still stuck with the same 1977-era plan (illegible...
View ArticleRec & Parks Follow Up
Better Bike appeared before the Recreation and Parks Commission this past Tuesday to highlight the need for safe streets for those who ride a bicycle to our parks in Beverly Hills. Our city plans...
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