Westwood Veloway
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The West Los Angeles Veloway was a project sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the West Los Angeles Veloway in the 1980ies. It proposed a bicycle bridge across Wishire/Veteran crossing south of UCLA to lead bicycle traffic to a 405 underpass on Ohio. Among the members of the committee were Prof David Eisenberg and Prof Paul Boyer. For a period they used the services of a paid consultant (Ryan Snyder) and advertised the bridge as a grand architectural scheme to rival Bilbao and the Sidney Opera House (think big!).
Documents from the period include:
The West Los Angeles Veloway summary report : phase 1 & phase 2 / Urban Innovations Group. [Los Angeles : Urban Innovations Group, 1984?] (Available @ UCLA libraries (SRLF) TE301 .U72 1984b)
Urban Innovations Group. The West Los Angeles veloway feasibility study / Prepared by Urban Innovations Group for the Citizens Committee for the West Los Angeles Veloway ... Los Angeles? : s.n., 1982-1983. (Available @ UCLA libraries (SRLF) TE301 .U72 1982)
UCLA to Westwood Village link, bicycle veloway system, Los Angeles: environmental impact statement 1989. [link]
The project still survives. A plan adopted in 1999 [link] contains this language:
"This Bicycle Plan designates Class I and Class II facilities in the vicinity of UCLA and the Veterans Administration complex in Westwood as an endorsement of the West Los Angeles Veloway. The ultimate alignment of this facility may vary from that shown on the Bicycle Plan map(s); final design is subject to the approval of responsible agencies. The elevated Class I portion of this bikeway would provide for direct bicycle access to and from Westwood Village/UCLA campus over Wilshire Boulevard, ultimately linking up with the Santa Monica Transit Parkway Bike Path at Sepulveda Boulevard." It is repeated in a 2006 Document: Bicycle Transportation Account Compliance Document FINAL DRAFT – January, 2006 [link]
This planning seems to envision Santa Monica Boulevard as a major bicycle corridor, and some of this has actually come through. However, West of the 405 bicycle provision on SMB disappears
