Long Beach is Bicycle City USA - Long Beach Homes For Sale, Alamitos Heights,Park Estates,California Heights,Bixby Knolls,Wrigley,Bluff Park,Carroll Park,Signal Hill,Downtown Long Beach and surrounding communities...

Long Beach is Bicycle City USA - Long Beach Homes For Sale

Alamitos Heights,Park Estates,California Heights,Bixby Knolls,Wrigley,Bluff Park,Carroll Park,Signal Hill,Downtown Long Beach and surrounding communities...



Long Beach Homes For Sale & Ricardo The Realtor



There are so many reasons why Long Beach residents live here in this great city... Oceanfront, Beautiful homes, great shopping, excellent award winning restuarants, Blue Ribbon California Distinguished School system and a diverse community to name a few.

The topic I would like to highlight today is our push for improving our eco-system by using our bicycles instead of our automobiles! We are becoming the leading city in the United States when it comes to pedal power! Read on for more info...

Another reason to live in Long Beach!   LiveInLB.com



Welcome to Bike Long Beach!

Looking for a way to get around Long Beach on your bike? No problem. Bike Long Beach has the answer. Explore the website to discover the latest and greatest on biking in Long Beach. Whether you are an avid cyclist, a college commuter, or simply curious about biking, this website has something for you.






BIKE LONG BEACH VISION


The City of Long Beach's vision is to be the most bicycle friendly urban city in the nation.

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Long Beach Mission


How do we get it done?


To provide an environment and culture where cycling is a safe, viable, and preferred mode of transportation in the city of Long Beach. This will be accomplished through:


•Creating safe, connected, and easy to navigate bike routes;


•Offering bike friendly public facilities, transit, and shops;


•Promoting bike share opportunities throughout the city;


•Encouraging the community, through education, to create a culture where cyclists and motorists interact safely;


•Implementing fun and healthy bicycle programs.






BIKE LONG BEACH TAG LINE


Bike for yourself. Bike for the environment. Bike in Long Beach.








BIKE LONG BEACH STRATEGIES


Strategies reflect the vision and foster action so that Long Beach will become the most cycling friendly urban city in the nation.


1.Creating safe, connected, and easy to navigate bike routes;


◦Update the Bike Master Plan


■Assess Long Beach’s bike network/system


■Create a new bicycle network map


■Ride all proposed routes


◦Create signature bike projects/programs (to be completed in 1 year)


■Plan, design, and construct two dedicated bicycle lanes from Pacific to Alamitos along Broadway and 3rd Street in Downtown Long Beach shared roads


■Establish Long Beach signature bike lanes with striping and signage in our City


■Install neighborhood-themed bike racks throughout the City


1.Offering bike friendly public facilities, transit, and shops;


◦Provide special route maps


◦Increase bike rental locations


◦Promote bike paths that circulate through popular tourist attractions


◦Provide connections to local cycling groups


1.Promoting bike share opportunities throughout the City;


◦Create a bike share program at CSULB


◦Partner with local businesses to expand the bike share program throughout the City


1.Encouraging the community, through education, to create a culture where cyclists and motorists interact safely;


◦Partner with LB Transit to link buses to bicycles


◦Participate in and promote Bike To Work day (weekly?)


■Offer federal incentive to bike to work ($20 a month)


◦Develop a "leading edge" website that showcases/promotes the City's efforts


■Create links to efforts in the community


■Show the City's bike network and allow users to search and create their own routes


■Allow input from the community through a forum or annotated bicycle map


■Leverage the Tony Cruz reputation and connection


■Create a Google mapping application


◦Establish and hold 3 biking events in Long Beach


■Bixby Knolls/Downtown/Belmont Shore Bike Rides


■Long Beach Marathon Bike Ride


■Long Beach Grand Prix Bike Ride


◦Conduct bicycle safety training at Bicycle Rodeos throughout the City


1.Implementing fun and healthy bicycle programs.


◦Partner with the School District to establish educational bike programs


◦Partner with the Health Department to establish exercise bike programs


◦Partner with Parks, Rec & Marine to establish recreational bike programs

Call me for a map of the bike paths in the City of Long Beach today and I hope to see you on the road!!!

Long Beach Homes For Sale, Ricardo The Realtor

Long Beach is Bicycle City USA - Long Beach Homes For Sale, Alamitos Heights,Park Estates,California Heights,Bixby Knolls,Wrigley,Bluff Park,Carroll Park,Signal Hill,Downtown Long Beach and surrounding communities...