Citing a spike in bike accidents in the central area of the city, Los Angeles police on Tuesday asked both motorists and cyclists to do their part in sharing the road.
“The mayor has declared the city of L.A. a bike-friendly city,” said Capt. Ronald E. Marbrey. “We want to ensure we remain a bike-safe city.”
Marbrey said bike-related collisions have declined 4% across the city so far this year. But there has been a 9% uptick in bike accidents in the central part of the city.
Alexis Lantz of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition said those statistics may be misleading because the number of cyclists on the road has increased.
In an email, Lantz noted that the downtown residential population has grown. “If more people are riding more often, as we believe they are, then a 9% increase in collisions might actually represent a decrease in collisions per trip, or per mile bicycled.”
“We need bicycle count data to be able to know what’s really going on,” she wrote.
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