Gary Kavanagh
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Longfellow St. Redesign Borrows From Netherlands Approach
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New Slow Street Design On Longfellow, Incorporating Sustainability Oriented Features. This week marks another milestone in new approaches to street design in the city of Santa Monica. A two block segment of Longfellow St. receives a makeover, taking cues from the mixed use woonerf concept from the Netherlands. Longfellow St. had always been too narrow […]
Catching Up With Laura & Russ Of The Path Less Pedaled
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Laura Crawford & Russ Roca. (Photo by Path Less Pedaled) (Note:if you want to support Gary’s work and our regular coverage of Long Beach, join us at the Library Alehouse this Tuesday. – DN) Just about anyone with a passing interest in bicycle touring on the West Coast probably has some familiarity with the adventures […]
On-Street Bike Corrals Land On Main Street
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This week, Santa Monica opened it’s first on-street bike corrals located within business districts, with two prominent locations on Main Street. At Main St. and Kinney St. there are 2 corrals on each side of the street, with a larger full space on the east side of the street, and a smaller corral with 4 […]
Santa Monica Debuts Two New Bikeway Designs
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Lately it seems like every week in Santa Monica there is something new happening that makes it easier and more pleasant to get around without a car. New sharrows there, a new bike lane here, bike racks popping up at shops all over town. New pedestrian oriented mixed use developments are going in several at […]