I remember the input they gathered.  I suspect most of the peds and bikers favored the one way (car) traffic option. The article implies the city cannot afford the traffic study. While the walkers/skaters/joggers/strollers certainly need more room, I don't see how they can shrink the auto lanes without forcing us into the traffic.  If that is the case, we might as well ride right in the middle of the lane, as we are legally entitled to when safety dictates.

Thanks for the update. We had a CORBA board meeting tonight, and I'll be at the LA County Bike Plan public hearing tomorrow night.

Since I ride round the rose bowl on my way to most of the San Gabes rides (or I did pre-fire), and I'll often lap it on my rare local road rides, the improvements do sound like actual improvements. Perhaps it's not as far as they could have gone, so I'm glad they're leaving open the possibility for one-way motor traffic in the future.

Re-surfacing will be nice!

Have budgets been allocated and a time frame given?

I am thinking of coming to the meeting tonight.  Lot to like in the plan.  

One concern I have has to do with completing a planned but not shown bike path to the Gabrielino Trail from the west and adding a path on the east side of Hahamongna that would connect to the existing paved road (vice having to ride through the residential area).  These areas are probably not on the agenda for tonight, they are a part of the Hahamongna Master Plan.

In the Arroyo, which is part of the plan area, I would like to see a multi-use trail from the Devil's Gate dam to Washington and another segment from the casting pond lot along the channel to the L.A. City Arroyo Bike Path.  There are already trails there but I suspect this was considered and rejected as it would mix bikes and horses.

On the other side of town, the ACT should connect with the planned Eaton Wash path.  Unfortunately, the Eaton Canyon Park prohibits bikes.  Also, there is a problem with the gate at Pinecrest sometimes trapping people inside.  Bikers are then supposed to walk their bikes out at Roosevelt or Eaton Canyon.  The city controls the dirt road up to the park boundary, which is about at Roosevelt, and at least one map I have seen shows a bike path there, but no mention in the master plan that I noticed.  So should I give up an evening to make one comment?

I just returned from the meeting tonight.  I asked about the recently approved bike path in the Hahamunga area.  This trail is part of the master plan.  A key point to this is that it was not part of the approved master plan for the open space but the plan was amended to add the trail.  This is important because the plan does not include a bike path down the rest of the Arroyo because there other other Arroyo master plans that supersede the bicycle master plan.  To add a bike path the full length would have to be added to both of these plans.  This would be a lot of work but it can be done.

I mentioned in the meeting that it would be nice to see the master plan mention that future trails added in the city be multi-use to allow bikes.  Future trails would include new trails in open space areas.