Los Angeles River bicycle path
- Los Angeles River bicycle path
The Los Angeles River bicycle path (or L.A. River bicycle path) is, formally, a short bicycle path in the greater Los Angeles area, paralleling the Los Angeles River for approximately four miles as the river skirts the northern and eastern boundaries of Griffith Park in an area known as the Glendale Narrows. As a flood control measure, however, following the Los Angeles Flood of 1938, concrete banks and bed were created for nearly all the length of the river, making it essentially navigable by bicycle to its end, where it empties into the San Pedro Bay in Long Beach. In recent years, the Friends of the Los Angeles River, a local civic and environmental group, have attempted to restore portions of the river as parkland in a manner that includes and encourages bicycle and pedestrian traffic, efforts realized in part as local Congressman Brad Sherman secured $460,000 in federal funds to extend the path north in the Sherman Oaks area.
Long Beach SectionAccording to the painted markers on the cycleway itself near the Long Beach, CA end of the trail, the LA River Bicycle trail extends for some 49 miles along the riverbed (to Burbank according to Transportation_of_Los_Angeles). Access to the path in Long Beach is found where the riverbed intersects the following city streets: PCH, Willow, Wardlow and Del Amo. In Long Beach, the bike path runs on the east side of the river bed. Mileage markers are painted on the pavement and signs are posted at regular intervals detailing upcoming city streets.
ee also
*Los Angeles River
*List of cycleways
External links
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=pch+long+beach+ca&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=33.790109,-118.203954&spn=0.004708,0.007639&t=h&z=17 Map to PCH Access Point, Southside of PCH underpass Long Beach]
* [http://www.labikepaths.com/LARiver.html Bike Paths of Los Angeles: L.A. River, Griffith Park]
* [http://www.folar.org Friends of the Los Angeles River]
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