The city of Redondo Beach recently installed nearly a half-mile of new concrete curb-protected bike lanes along Palos Verdes Boulevard.
The 0.4-mile Palos Verdes Blvd. Protected Bike Lane Project extends from Pacific Coast Highway to Irena Avenue. The city reconfigured the street, narrowing existing car lanes and adding new bike lanes that feature concrete curbs, signage, and green pavement marking in conflict areas.
These curb-protected bike lanes are the gold standard for on-street bike facilities. Redondo Beach installed its first curb-protected bike facility (part of the beach bike path) in 2015. Fewer than a dozen L.A. County cities have installed similar bikeway protection.
Redondo Beach also recently installed new unprotected bike lanes for two additional blocks of Palos Verdes.
The entire 0.6 miles of Palos Verdes Boulevard through Redondo Beach now has a continuous bikeway; both ends of Redondo’s bikeway are at the Torrance city limits…