Streets in southeastern Los Angeles County have a severe lack of protected bike lanes and traffic safety measures, leading to high numbers of fatalities in a community where many residents depend on walking and biking for daily needs.
It’s no secret that Los Angeles lacks a comprehensive network of protected bike lanes. According to an article by Amanda Del Cid Lugo in LA Public Press, the crisis is even more urgent in southeast Los Angeles County, where people who commute by bike or on foot often face dangerous road conditions on a daily basis.
“According to data from the University of California Berkeley’s Transportation Injury Mapping System, in the 10-year span from 2013 and 2023, 553 people were hit by cars in the city of Huntington Park alone, with the majority of accidents happening along Slauson Avenue, Gage Avenue, Pacific Boulevard, and Florence Avenue,” Del Cid Lugo explains.
A Berkeley study found that the leading cause of collisions in Huntington Park was drivers failing to yield to pedestrians and people on bikes and that a lack of traffic safety infrastructure and lighting poses a barrier to walking and biking.
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