Bicycle Friendly Community

Long Beach, CA| Bronze Level

Community Highlights: The Long Beach City Bike Share Program was launched in March to encourage City employees to leave their cars and use a bicycle to travel to downtown locations during the work day. Long Beach Cyclists, in partnership with the City, provide a bike valet program at community events. The BikeLongBeach website makes information about bicycling more accessible and more interactive. The City has also completed its first ever bike count at 23 locations throughout Long Beach to establish a baseline to measure the effectiveness of planned and funded physical improvements.

Most Compelling Community Statistic: Over $10 million in grant funding has been secured and/or spent on priority projects identified in the existing Long Beach Bicycle Master Plan, and all but one of the short-term projects, of a total of thirteen, have been funded.