Get Involved With LACBC’s Newest Campaign: Good Roads LA!
March 24, 2011 at 5:32 pm | Posted in Get Involved | 6 CommentsTags: Campaigns, Good Roads LA
How many times do you need to swerve to avoid dangerous potholes on your ride to work? Do you dodge rough asphalt on your way to the grocery store? Now, thanks to LACBC’s Good Roads LA Campaign, you can demand safe streets for all users!
Hazardous rode conditions plague people who bicycle every day, making rides unpleasant and endangering our safety. This is our opportunity to demand, smoother, safer streets. Together we can help prioritize pothole repair for people who bicycle.
The purpose of the Good Roads LA Campaign is to record dangerous potholes and road conditions and report them to the Bureau of Street Services (BSS) for rapid repair. And we need your help to make this campaign a success!
We need volunteers to help organize and lead rides to catalog hazards on the road and help submit them to BSS. We also want your input on what streets should be at the top of the list for upcoming rides. Feel free to leave street suggestions in the comments section below.
If you can’t join us on a ride, you can still help by calling (800-996-CITY) in the potholes you encounter on your daily rides or going online to request a repair: http://bss.lacity.org/request.htm
LACBC needs your help to get the Good Roads Campaign rolling! Get involved with the Good Roads Campaign today and sign-up to volunteer – email joni@la-bike.org!
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Pingback by The law of unintended biking consequences — cities ignore bike safety at your peril « BikingInLA— March 24, 2011 #
Is this a bad joke? The city’s streets are so riddled with potholes it would be easier to report the places where no repair is required. On the “bike lane” I regularly commute on, Griffith Park Drive between Los Feliz Blvd and Sunset Blvd, I recently counted 17 dangerous potholes and unsafe paving conditions on the southbound side alone and this stretch is barely one mile long. I did not include the numerous cracks wide enough to have weeds growing in them that often stretch for more than 100 yards each.
Is the Bureau of Street Services really so inept that they need our help to see such obviously dangerous conditions?
Comment by patrick— March 29, 2011 #
The reality is there is just not enough staff roaming the 6400 miles of streets that make up the City of Los Angeles to know where ever pothole is. So yes they do need our help – it’s not so much a matter of ineptitude, but rather the size of the city, the amount of streets, and the fact that we know where the problems are along the roads we ride everyday. Also the City has budget constraints so this is an opportunity for us to start flooding the system so the potholes that effect our safety are addressed first.
Comment by lacbc— March 31, 2011 #
Thanks for working on this – it’s much needed!! This is probably obvious but Santa Monica, Sunset, Western and Vermont are getting pretty ramshackle.
Here in Pacoima: Paxton, Glenoaks, and San Fernando Road are heavily rutted and potholed by diesel truck traffic and flooding (thanks to our lack of storm drains). If y’all would be interested in a Northeast Valley ride, let us or the Bikesan@s know!
Comment by Lauren Ahkiam— March 31, 2011 #
To lacbc:
There is a huge difference between expecting the city to “know where ever(y) pothole is” and their total disregard for nearly any of the many dangerous conditions. If the city seriously wants people to bike more as a way to reduce traffic while improving health and the environment they need to make a concerted effort to make riding safer–not abdicate this responsibility to those of us who ride.
Comment by patrick— April 1, 2011 #
Is this inspired by the “Good Roads” campaign of the late 19th early 20th century, which was driven by bicylists trying to get smooth pavement (cars and horses were fine with rutted dirt or damaged cobblestones, but cyclists really wanted smooth pavement)?
Comment by Nathanael— July 17, 2011 #