Pico Mobility Plan Updates

Vision Zero joined us at our March 2, 2026 meeting with an update on the Pico Mobility Project.

The project spans from Crenshaw Boulevard to the 110 Freeway with 1.5 miles in Council District 10 and 1.6 miles in Council District 1.

A speech survey showed that 23% of drivers are going faster than the 35 mile per hour speed limit and when a pedestrian is struck at 32 mph they have a 25% chance of dying. This project is aimed at reducing fatalities caused by traffic collisions and supporting sustainable modes of transportation.

The project has gone through the phases of stakeholder briefings, outreach and design and is now in the outreach phase of design prior to bidding, awarding and constructing. In the outreach phase they’ve held 12 events reaching 500 people and done direct canvassing resulting in reaching 700 people. They have also conducted a survey.

The survey results show that the top three priorities are safety, comfort and air quality. 74% of respondents preferred a protected bike lane in spite of the trade offs to traffic and parking.

Some of the plans include:

• Increasing pedestrian safety with high visibility crosswalks, leading pedestrian intervals at signals and shorter crossing distances
• Increasing bicyclist safety with protected bike lanes and improving pavement quality
• Respond to business concerns by preserving key spaces and loading zones and adding spaces to side streets as well as increasing bike parking
• Respondents also noted lack of shade, maintenance of street lights and accumulation of debris

The proposed design with the protected bike lane will result in:

• An increase of travel time of one to two minutes during peak periods
• Loss of 270 parking spaces- Most parking on the north side of the street will be removed to accommodate the protected bike lane
• More hours of allowable parking for 95 spaces

Spring 2026 Update – Pico Blvd (3_2_26) s

Your opinion is invited on where you would like to see more Metro bike share expansion locations: https://bikeshare.metro.net/suggest-a-location

The project timeline calls bidding this summer and construction to start this fall.

Previous presentation

Previously, at our August 4, 2025 meeting, we heard a presentation on the proposed changes to Pico Blvd by Severin Martinez and Eleanor Hunts of Vision Zero. The goal of Vision Zero is to eliminate traffic deaths, which are suffered predominately by pedestrians and bicyclists, by redesigning streets for greater safety.

At that time they were collecting public comment on the positioning of bike lanes.

Their online presentation from November 2025 shows 74% of all respondents prefer protected bike lanes.