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There are a couple of new bikeways in central Los Angeles: on First Street in downtown L.A.'s Little Tokyo/Arts District and Boyle Heights, and on Avenue 19 in Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park.
Mostly protected and buffered bike lanes on Avenue 19 between San Fernando Road and Pasadena Avenue with one block of regular bike lane between Pasadena Ave and Broadway. #bikeLApic.twitter.com/KrjqPuOx8F
The Avenue 19 bike lanes extend three quarters of a mile from San Fernando Road to North Broadway. At San Fernando Road, the lanes connect to the L.A. River bike path, via a bikeway on the Riverside-Figueroa Bridge.
The Avenue 19 bike facility is mostly plastic bollard-protected, with some unprotected stretches at the southern end. South of Barranca Street, Avenue 19 had a one-way northbound bike lane forming a couplet with Avenue 18. LADOT added a new southbound bike lane there, so now both sides of Avenue 19 have lanes.
Buffered bike lane stretch of Avenue 19
Soft-hit-post protected bike lanes on the resurfaced Avenue 19
Avenue 19 had been one of three remaining gaps in connecting the L.A. River bike path into Chinatown and downtown Los Angeles.
Avenue 19 and N. Spring Street are key connections to bring the river path into downtown Los Angeles. November 2022 map shows existing bikeways in green, gaps in red. The new Avenue 19 bikeway closed the long red gap at the top.
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