This morning, Culver City leaders cut a ceremonial ribbon to open newly completed bus and bike improvements, called the Move Culver City Eastern Segment.
At this morning’s event, Mayor Freddy Puza praised the project as “an absolute gamechanger for our network.”
“This infrastructure gives you options,” Puza declared. “It takes the stress out of the commute and puts the joy back into moving throughout our neighborhoods.”
Vice Mayor Bubba Fish, a dedicated safe streets advocate, emphasized the facility improves safety in the face of Southern California’s devastating traffic violence. “Interventions like these are transformative,” Fish noted, “to make sure that our families, our kids, our seniors, everyone in our community, can get around safely and efficiently.”
Fish further praised the bright green pavement markings, “Culver City recently changed the color of its bike lanes to a very bright visible green – the national standard for bike lanes – so you’re going to see those bike lanes really, really starkly now.”
In early April, Streetsblog previewed the project, then under construction. It is located at the easternmost edge of Culver City, bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles. The project includes:
- Just under a half mile of Washington Boulevard: 0.4 mile westbound bus lane (David Avenue to Sentney Avenue), 0.2 mile of eastbound bus lane (Sentney to Adams Boulevard) and 0.2 mile of eastbound bike lane (Adams to Fairfax Avenue).
- One-tenth of a mile of Adams Boulevard: concrete-curb-protected bike lanes (Washington to Fairfax).
Though the project only totals about half a mile, it strategically closes a gap, especially for cyclists. Both Puza and Fish emphasized the project’s connection to Los Angeles’ Adams Boulevard bike lanes. From the west, it extends the (scaled-back) Move Culver City bus/bike connections into Downtown Culver and its Metro E Line Station.
