i use my bicycle in Los Angeles  and haven't noticed anything
but then i usually ride on the streets we don't know the name of.
And they have many fewer traffic lights. 

LADOT is repainting some streets. Making bike lanes that remove a car lane
and calm traffic.  This is being done on big artillery routes with lights and the whole shebang.  We have a four block long  "Bicycle Boulevard" on a back road adjacent to Hollywood Boulevard the Pro bicycle team in DOT are using it to educate the rest of the city folks.

Also we have http://www.ciclavia.org/  a great day when they close the a long stretch of road to all motor vehicles.  This time it will be from downtown to the ocean.



--- On Sat, 4/6/13, Vernon Huffman <vernonhuffman@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Vernon Huffman <vernonhuffman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] traffic light timing
To: "thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org" <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org>
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 7:52 PM

I understand that Corvallis (Cycle City), OR, has recently agreed to slow the downtown grid of lights to 10 mph to accommodate bicycles. They're also considering a plan to incrementally increase car parking rates, to encourage more cycling. We already have the largest ride share in the USA. There is so much more we could do, but you've got to fight the asphalt lobby every step of the way.


From: Ryan Kragerud

Hey CA Think Tank members,

What's the deal with LA's light project? I just heard on Nat'l Public Radio, LA's traffic lights have been synced and the happiest road users are cyclists.

The traffic person from Santa Monica's public radio station reported the story. Anyone know what speed the lights are set at, and how it's actually working?

Thanks

Ryan Kragerud, Bicycle Longmont


From: Vincenzo loco

I don't think it's set for a specific speed necessarily, I will ask some
traffic engineers I know here.


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