Nobody Drives in LA — The California Cycleway

<p>If, like me, you ride a bicycle in&nbsp;<strong>Los Angeles</strong>, there&rsquo;s a good chance that you&rsquo;ve heard of the fabled&nbsp;<strong>California Cycleway</strong>&nbsp;&mdash; an elevated, wooden bicycle tollway that existed for an all-too-brief moment at the dawn of the&nbsp;<strong>20th Century&nbsp;</strong>&mdash; before&nbsp;<strong>the Age of the Automobile</strong>. The California Cycleway is legendary &mdash; and as with all legends, separating truth from fiction can be a challenge. Filling in the blanks requires conjecture and speculation. I&rsquo;ve heard and read, for example, that the California Cycleway was the first bicycle highway, that its intended terminus was&nbsp;<strong>Union Station&nbsp;</strong>but that it only made it to&nbsp;<strong>the Raymond Hotel</strong>, that it was built by the former mayor of&nbsp;<strong>Pasadena</strong>, that there was a casino at its midpoint, and that it was killed by the car. None of that, it turns out, is true.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@ericbrightwell/nobody-drives-in-la-the-california-cycleway-ea3468be0f2d"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>