By Will Campbell –
March 9, 2009Posted in: Biking in LA, Transportation, culver city
Last July I posted about newly installed signage announcing the closure until February 2009 of the Ballona Creek Bikeway from its inland-most terminus beside McManus Park at National Boulevard to Duquesne Street in Culver City.
Well of course that seven-month timeframe came and went and has now entered its eighth month, and seeing as the closure is tied in to continuing work on the Metro Expo Line bridge passing over the creek, it’s no surprise that section of bikeway is still off limits. At the same time I figured we might be getting close to a re-opening, mightn’t we?
Not even. Upon entering the bikeway at Duquesne for my westward creekside stretch across it to Inglewood Avenue I found that someone presumably with the MTA had spun the deadline slot machine and the new date for the next revised closure date renewed access is (image is clickably embiggenable if required):
That’s right folks, November 2011 is apparently the next month and year we’ll be able to ride that entirely unremarkable section of the bikeway. At only 32 months beyond the eight it’s been closed already, I’d say the MTA only missed it by thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat much.
Related posts:
- Cyclist Attacked on Ballona Creek Bikeway That Police Had No Idea Existed
- Boldy Going: Ballona Creek Bikeway
- Gimme A Sign: The Bikeway Closeth
- Ma-Ma-Ma My Ballona!
- First Tour de Ballona
About the Author
Will Campbell arrived in Los Angeles via the maternity ward at Good Sam Hospital way back in the sixty-fourth year of the previous century and has never lived anywhere else, which makes him two things: middle-aged and a native. He can count 16 residences over the course of his nomadic existence as a latchkey kid and deadbolt adult and presently he resides in Silver Lake with his wife
Susan, their four cats, three treefrogs, two dogs, and a Russian tortoise named Buster. Blogging since 2001, Will's web endeavors extend back to 1995 with laonstage.com, a comprehensive theater site that was well received but ever-short on capital (or a business model). For better or worse, the pinnacle of his online success arrived in 1997, when much to his surprise, a hobby site he'd built called VisuaL.A. was chosen "Best Website" in Los Angeles magazine's annual "Best of L.A." issue (in large part no doubt because he shrewdly avoided using blinking text which was all the Web 1.0 rage back then). He enjoys experiencing (and writing about) pretty much anything creative, explorational and/or adventurous; is an alternate transportation proponent, a horrible golf player and an OK tennis player. His prefered mode of civic travel is a bike, and he loves all creatures great and small -- especially the ones people can't stand like coyotes, and opossums and spiders and potato bugs. As a rule he carries a camera with him pretty much everywhere he goes.
Oh yeah -- And when he was a leeeetle boy he thought he was related to his idol, Dodgers pitching legend Sandy Koufax because they were both southpaws. Secretly he still wishes it were true. He can be found on Twitter via: @wildbell. His email addy is wildbellatgmaildotcom.
Did you know there are two tributaries to Ballona Creek? The Golf course near Beverly and Rossmore is one of them. Another is from Silverlake thatlater goes underground under 11th Street, Under Country Club Dr and joins up underground near Los Angeles High. There used to be a lake near Serrano and 11th.
There is supposedly a Hot springs near Third and Western (some Korean Spa is using it now. I also documented a spring near Franklin Avenue and Wilton.
—————————————
Maybe some money from the Stimulus package will hurry the construction of the Metro Expo line? I think someone is saying it will be completed a lot later than 2011.
I don’t know how I missed this one. Just a few weeks ago, I went to the entrance for Ballona Creek thinking it openned last month. How frustating it was to see a “November” sign placed over the “Febuary” sign.
I mean, come on………..Nine months??
Take another look Lisa. Indeed it’s nine months between February and November — an interval cause for surprise in itself — but then add two more years on top of that, and that’s just insane!