An environmental notice recently released by the City of Los Angeles signals plans to soon implement protected bike lanes along a busy stretch of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard through South Los Angeles.

MLK Boulevard mobility project areaLADOT

The project, as detailed in an LADOT website, would be broken into three segments. They include:

  • 1.5 miles of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, between Broadway and Hooper Avenue
  • 0.41 mile segment of Broadway Place, between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Main Street; and
  • 0.37 mile segment of 39th Street, between Broadway Place and Figueroa Street.

The corridor, located east of the 110 Freeway, feeds into regional transportation services such as Metro's E and J Lines, as well as Exposition Park.

Besides bike lanes, plans also call for the installation of new curb ramps along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, ADA-accessible parking, a traffic signal at 39th Street and Broadway Place, and speed humps, sharrows, and wayfinding signage between Central Avenue and Hooper Street.

Rendering of bike lanes along Pico BoulevardLADOT

Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard isn't the only major east-west thoroughfare also set to see implementation of protected bike lanes in the near future. Construction is also set to begin later this year on a project which will add protected infrastructure to a 3.5-mile segment of Pico Boulevard between Crenshaw Boulevard and Figueroa Street in Downtown.

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