AGOURA HILLS, CA — How bikeable is Agoura Hills?
The metropolis of Agoura Hills on March 22 mentioned preliminary plans to make the town extra bike-friendly with the introduction of interconnected bike corridors and assist amenities all through the town. The total purpose is to supply an environmentally-friendly and accessible various to driving, metropolis workers stated.
The blueprints are encapsulated within the metropolis’s Bike Master Plan, which the town workshopped with community-members in an in-person assembly on March 22. The metropolis will maintain a second workshop on the bike plan and an official public listening to earlier than it goes earlier than metropolis council for a vote.
“The next generations are going to think it’s crazy that we actually get in our cars and drive places like, to perhaps the future village, or anywhere else in Agoura. They’re going to be scootering and using electric bikes and regular bikes, so all of this is to prepare Agoura for being one step ahead,” Councilmember Illece Buckley Weber stated.
The plan notes security, accessibility all through the town, public well being and environmentalism as advantages of elevated native bike use. The plan outlines enhancements to current bike routes and the introduction of recent bike lanes all through the town.
The metropolis plans to strengthen current bike lanes on the town’s “backbone corridors,” that are on Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Agoura Road working east to west and Kanan Road working north to south, based on transportation analyst Tyler Lindberg.
The metropolis additionally plans so as to add bike lanes by means of residential areas of the town. Check out a map of all of the potential new bike lanes on the town’s web site.
The metropolis shared outcomes from group surveys about biking in Agoura Hills, which discovered nearly all of residents biked for train and recreation, relatively than as a type of transportation. Survey outcomes additionally confirmed that security issues and lack of kit is what retains most residents off the highway.