Beach Cities Cycling Club

Hello fellow South Bay Bicycle Coalition supporters,

If you live, work or ride a bicycle in Redondo Beach, I hope you will help us make bicycling safer and more accessible to everyone.

Thanks to your prior emails, we were able to get the South Bay Bicycle Master Plan on the Redondo Beach City Council Oct 20 meeting agenda. If this is approved, you should see about 35 NEW miles of new bikeways in Redondo Beach in the next 3-5 years.

I am asking you to please consider writing a short (but compelling) email to [email protected] and urge the Mayor and City Council members to approve of the Bicycle Master Plan implementation phase and refer to “agenda item N2”.

Thank you, Jim Hannon, South Bay Bicycle Coalition

Thank you to everyone who signed up to help with the bike and pedestrian counts. LAST CALL! We need to fill a few more slots this weekend, August 29th and 30th from 11-1pm. Anyone who is interested can sign up here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/4c7834db83ef46bdbc8b57fb954a1e6b. A training video will be provided.

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They’re Teens Biking Across a Turbulent Country. The Lessons Keep Coming. The romance of the open road is well established: meeting strangers, self-enlightenment, getting lost and breaking down. Would these ideals hold up in the cruel summer of 2020?

We need your help for our South Bay Bicycling Coalition + Beach Cities Health District Annual Bike and Pedestrian Counts!

Collecting the this is more important than ever given the changes due to COVID-19. These counts help to make the case for new bike/ped infrastructure and safety enhancements.

We’re conducting the counts in 2-hour shifts across the Beach Cities between August 17-30th. Weekday counts will be from 4-6PM and weekend counts are from 11-1PM. Choose the date(s) that work best for you. If you are interested in volunteering, please register here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/4c7834db83ef46bdbc8b57fb954a1e6b

Virtual training will be provided. This is a safe way to get out and enjoy the outdoors for a couple of hours while helping to capture data that will support more bike and pedestrian projects.

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