Updated
Updated · LAist · Sep 20
Long Beach Begins 5-Mile Studebaker Road Overhaul for Bike Lanes as Traffic Fatalities Rise
Updated
Updated · LAist · Sep 20

Long Beach Begins 5-Mile Studebaker Road Overhaul for Bike Lanes as Traffic Fatalities Rise

3 articles · Updated · LAist · Sep 20

Summary

  • Long Beach has launched its largest street redevelopment yet, remaking more than five miles of Studebaker Road with bike-friendly lanes and other upgrades.
  • The project advances a bicycle master plan adopted 25 years ago, with city urgency rising as auto-related fatalities increase.
  • Studebaker Road residents are now seeing the long-planned redesign reach their neighborhood, though the overhaul is already drawing opposition from some locals.
  • The redevelopment marks a major test of how aggressively Long Beach will reshape streets for safer, less car-centered travel.

Insights

Drivers are already hitting new curb islands; could this ambitious bike-friendly redesign secretly be making the city's streets more hazardous?
As construction accelerates toward 2027, will the drastic loss of parking and lanes push frustrated local commuters to a breaking point?