BEACH PATH IMPROVEMENTS

Have you ridden the beach paths North of the Pier recently?  Notice the newly applied paint striping from about 6th street to Bolsa Chica State Beach.   We now have bicyclists guided on a path with a center-line stripe separating the directions of travel.  For most of the way there is a parallel path that pedestrians are guided to.  I understand that technically the beach paths are still "multi-use" paths but with guidance to reduce conflicts of use. 

My observation is that although there is more that needs to be done, the new striping is significantly reducing conflicts between bicyclists and pedestrians,  and also between bicyclists traveling in opposite directions.  That should make it safer and easier for all users of our beach paths, including bicyclists and pedestrians. 

I encourage you to thank City Council Members Boardman and Shaw for their strong support of the project, our Public Works team for implementing it  effectively and efficiently, and Dan Hazard for his efforts in advocating the improvements,.  Once the decision was made it was done in "no time".

We now need  improvements to the Beach Path South of the pier. 

What do you think?

Jim Powers

HB Bike Map

Get your own color copy of the Huntington Beach Bikeways map in PDF at:

http://www.huntingtonbeachca.gov/about/maps/CityBikeways.pdf. 

People For Bikes

Dan Hazard recommends that we all sign the People For Bikes pledge and pass the word.  I have and I agree.
Go to
http://www.peopleforbikes.org/page/s/pledge ,
and then spread the word.
Jim Powers

Welcome, Huntington Beach Bicycle Advocates

Over the last few months our focus has been mainly on The City of Huntington Beach's quest to become recognized as a Bicycle Friendly Community. With recognition by the League of American Bicyclists achieved, at last we are able to focus our attention on  HuBBA again, helping it to grow and become more effective for cyclist's in our City.  We hope you'll  find our new site,interesting and helpful.  The increased communication  via  http://hubbabikenews.blogspot.com/,  and our Hubba e-mail account, hbbike@gmail.com, should enable us all to help Huntington Beach to continue to be even more bike friendly.  Creating this site has been a learning adventure for me. I'm looking forward to continuing it and improving it as we go.  Please feel free to feed back your comments and suggestions directly to hbbike@gmail.com or  on the site.

Dan Hazard and I wish you all  well and encourage you  to keep pedaling, get involved, and advocate for an increasingly more bike friendly Huntington Beach!

Jim Powers

September 24, 2010

Dear Huntington Beach Bicycle Advocates (HuBBA) member,

Exciting news to share! 

Huntington Beach, CA has joined the ranks of select cities in America recognized by the League of American Bicyclists for being a bicycle friendly community. The city garnered a bronze award through the leadership of fellow HuBBA co-founder Jim Powers, who worked tirelessly with numerous city employees to complete the lengthy application. Thank you Jim!  

Informal feedback from the league indicates the application almost received the next higher award of silver. Therefore, we are encouraged and inspired to go for the silver working diligently over the next ten months to make improvements and submit another application.  (Within 25 miles of Huntington Beach, only Irvine and Long Beach have earned a bicycle friendly award of bronze).

We encourage all our HuBBA members to join the league of American Bicyclists at www.bikeleague.org.

The league is serious about bicycle safety and has an extensive program to train Licensed Cycling Instructors who, in turn, lead classes. Like many of you, I have ridden for fifty of my fifty-seven years but I know I can always learn something new and important and perhaps life saving from licensed professionals like Jim Powers. So consider signing up yourself, friends and family for the Street Cycling Skills class:

When: Thursday October 28^th 6-9pm covers rights and responsibilities of bicyclists and vehicles and safe handling tips.

When: Saturday October 30, 9-1pm 2010 (Must first have attended Thursday session) Bring bicycle and helmet. Hands on practice on your bicycle covering the class room instruction. Certificates of completion provided to graduates.

Where: Huntington Beach City Hall (Yorktown and main street), room B7.

Cost: $12.

Preregistration required at www.hbsands.org

For more information contact Jim Powers at jimcp1@aol.com

See you at the class!

Dan Hazard, co founder, HuBBA

Danoca@socal.rr.com