Faced with yet another temporary closure of a portion of the metro Blue Line in L.A. for Exposition Line construction, yours truly chose not to bike/shuttle bus the gap in pursuit of a beach bike ride in either Long Beach or the South Bay. Rather, I decided to see how far I could get in biking to the Westside beach area, with very little time available to me on Sunday. I used this L.A. County Bicycle Coalition map to find the the best, quietest, least traffic-filled route on a very sunny, hot afternoon, as well as this L.A. Metro Bike Map: this map.
First Leg (train): Universal City metro to Hollywood and Highland....helped very nice mother and daughter British tourists, and took train one-stop to Hollywood.
Second Leg (surface streets...Hwood to Venice Blvd.): Exit and head west/south on Orange to De Longpre; west on DeLongpre two-three blocks to Sycamore; left/south on Sycamore a long way through beautiful pre-World War II apartments territory to 4th St.; right/west on 4th to Cochran, a few blocks down; left/south on Cochran to Venice Blvd....and that's as far as I got. Turned around and returned home. Hot and tired, and needing to get home to walk dogs, I made the trip back to home...
Third Leg....To Be Continued...Next time: proceed right/west/south on Venice Blvd. to the ocean.
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
MULTI-MODAL Mondays: Griffith Park Loop
Sunday, I finally got back on my bike after patching my tire using this video from InTown Bikes in Atlanta (thanks); I'd already bought a patch kit and a new tube, but I didn't remember how to patch the old tire (I saved the new tube for later).
The trip: I biked over to Universal City Metro Red Line station, and took my bike two stops to Hollywood/Vine station; then I biked east on Hollywood Boulevard to Bronson, north on Bronson to Franklin, right near the Scientology Celebrity Center. In the little strip mall on the northeast corner of Bronson and Franklin is a little organic takeout place called Locali. I got a yerba mate tea and some sort of oat bar, ate that and continued onward. This is in Franklin Village, and there's a cool gift and magazine store, and some other cool stores--it's worth a look, if you ever get over there: Franklin a few blocks east of Gower, on the north side of the street.
I biked east on Franklin to Los Feliz Village, where I turned north on Vermont, observing a fender-bender aftermath on Vermont. Up to Los Feliz Boulevard, down to the L.A. River Bike Trail, north on that to the end at Victory Boulevard. Then, I biked north on Victory to Riverside, left/west on Riverside to Chavez St., up Chavez to Alameda, and back to Hollywood Way and the media district.
Fun!
The trip: I biked over to Universal City Metro Red Line station, and took my bike two stops to Hollywood/Vine station; then I biked east on Hollywood Boulevard to Bronson, north on Bronson to Franklin, right near the Scientology Celebrity Center. In the little strip mall on the northeast corner of Bronson and Franklin is a little organic takeout place called Locali. I got a yerba mate tea and some sort of oat bar, ate that and continued onward. This is in Franklin Village, and there's a cool gift and magazine store, and some other cool stores--it's worth a look, if you ever get over there: Franklin a few blocks east of Gower, on the north side of the street.I biked east on Franklin to Los Feliz Village, where I turned north on Vermont, observing a fender-bender aftermath on Vermont. Up to Los Feliz Boulevard, down to the L.A. River Bike Trail, north on that to the end at Victory Boulevard. Then, I biked north on Victory to Riverside, left/west on Riverside to Chavez St., up Chavez to Alameda, and back to Hollywood Way and the media district.
Fun!
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