CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN
(To be rescheduled by LBPD)
Calling all E-Bike Riders !!!
E-Bike Traffic Safety Saturday 3 January '26
Sponsored by the Laguna Beach Police Department and Thurston Middle School
Here's the public flyer:
-LS
Atta-Boy CALTRANS
During regular maintenance for roadway tar and slurry and consistent with an earlier Pacific Corridor study, California Route 1 through Laguna received these Sharrows and bike-boxes near the Montage Resort and Hotel.
However, the speed limit remains unchanged at 40mph. How many of you can pedal 40mph or faster to keep-up with PCH motorist traffic? Uphill? Should be a challenge for eBikes as well. Are these Complete Streets interventions consistent with Caltrans Department Directive-64 or the Pacific Corridor study?
What else does Caltrans have in store for Route #1 through Laguna Beach?
-LS
The destiny of Laguna Beach and a choice by city leadership. Will Laguna Beach residents regret their decision?
-LS
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In 2008 Laguna Beach appointed a City Task Force to study and make recommendations to reduce congestion and improve traffic safety for Laguna Beach. Members of the Complete Streets Task Force consisted of LB residents and neighboring beach cities volunteers, we coordinated with the LB Planning Commission to find money and develop plans to adopt approve and implement COMPLETE STREETS POLICY for Laguna Beach.
In 2012 The City responded THERES NO MONEY FOR THAAAAAT.
In 2014 forward thinking city staff in San Clemente applied for, won grant money and won a "Best in State" Award for their multi-modal street safety plan and adopted Complete Streets Policy.
Today the LB PATCH declares "$168,000 Grant Awarded to the LBPD for Traffic SAFETY". The LBPD grant will allow law enforcement to:
The public remains under the illusion that congestion and traffic safety is an enforcement problem and grant money must be the means to improve traffic safety. Law enforcement grants do nothing to address the issue of mobility policy or road infrastructure.
These measures correct motorist behavior, they do not fund a multi-modal plan to improve traffic safety with new infrastructure (bike-lanes, pedestrian furniture, traffic calming). Grant funding for Complete Streets Policy is available if the City applies, instead this grant funds LBPD law enforcement.
If the City of Laguna Beach Has No Money for Thaaaaat, then where does all our money go? These charts show where Laguna's city budget compared other beach cities.
-LS
New California legislation prohibits the sale of Class 3 eBikes to individuals under the age of 16, a violation of this prohibition is punishable by a fine not to exceed $250. Signed by the California Governor and filed with the Secretary of State July 28 2025 the new law is presently in effect.
eBikes are bicycles with electric motors to assist the rider, they are separated into three classifications according to their operating capability like this:
AB 965 aligns the sale of eBikes with the permitted age of use for young operators and critically protects our youth under the age of 16. The measure is a safety-first fix by increasing parent involvement in making the purchase decision for their children's transportation choices and safety.
"This new law will work in conjunction with other bills and regulations, attempting to curb accidents and injuries. According to data from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, children 14 years and younger accounted for 36% of “micromobility injuries” from 2017 to 2022." (see Assembly Woman Diane Dixon 72nd District 2025 Legislation TBD)
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"Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a shocking number of Americans kill one another over parking spots, and we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Since the advent of the car, we have deformed our cities in a Sisyphean quest for car storage, and as a result, much of the nation's most valuable real estate is now devoted to empty vehicles. Parking determines the design of new buildings and the fate of old ones, traffic patterns and the viability of transit, neighborhood politics and municipal finance, and the overall quality of public space. Is this really the best use of our finite resources? Is parking really more important than everything else?"
Several points bear repeating for Laguna Beach:
Should parking be the best use of our finite resources?
Is parking more important than everything else?
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