Anyhow, I was upset to see no Bike Plan presentations scheduled for the East/NorthEast side, and so I’m thinking about going ahead and setting up one of these “requestable” workshops at the Bike Oven.

A couple responses to items above:

- the maps weren’t released accidentally. They were released intentionally in advance of the text

- the “infeasible” designation (“PCI – Proposed but Currently Infeasible” which was on the initial draft maps released in May) has been replaced by “potential bicycle lane” … which is definitely a semantic improvement… but not the end of the discussion.
The plan now has “proposed lanes” and “potential lanes.” Proposed is apparently a sort of medium-strong-maybe and potential is sort of a weak-maybe.
I would suggest that many of the streets designated potential (formerly-known-as-infeasible) should actually go in the proposed category.
For example, Reseda Boulevard, (a portion of which was actually just painted with bike lanes last week – yay!) is still just listed as potential (in May, listed as “infeasible”)… all that to say that I think bicyclist might do well to push for a lot of the now “potential” lanes to be moved into the “proposed” category.

One bit of positive news I want to dig more into in the document is it looks like they actually have some good ideas for the “Bicycle Friendly” street designation. When I first saw the map I thought it was going to be PR fluff like Class III bicycle routes. If they actually do things like round abouts and other traffic calming and alternatives to constant stop signs which suck for bicycle travel, then there could be some good things coming, hopefully if the document goes into action this time around.

The infeasible designation really needs to go though, even if not labeled for bike lane, at least something less self defeating than infeasible. What an up hill battle it would be to fight for bicycle improvements on a corridor with an infeasible label hanging over it.

I don’t disagree with you at all about how bad things can be on the road, or how bad LA’s track record has been when it comes to bike infrastructure. Certainly there is room for skepticism — but I just think there’s still space for cautious optimism. The plan, albeit v. late, is finally here. And I’m hoping we’ll still all have enough cautious optimism and energy to stay involved with it and take action — via working to get more meetings set up, etc. — to make it as strong as it can be.