City to christen bikeway to honor beloved cycling advocate
Todd Dipaola, a board member of the South Bay Bicycle Coalition, speaks after a memorial bike ride for Julian Katz, shown in the photo at left. Katz will be honored with a ceremony next week naming the bikeway seen in the background in his honor. Photo Julian Katz won’t be there when Hermosa Beach holds a dedication ceremony downtown next Thursday for the bikeway that now bears his name: he passed away last year due to complications from prostate cancer. But even if Katz were there, those who knew him best say he likely wouldn’t spend much time basking in the glory. He’d be thinking about where the next piece of bicycle infrastructure could go. “Julian would say, ‘Let’s keep working, keep moving along. There’s so much more to do,’” said his wife Gila. “Julian wouldn’t rest on his laurels. He wouldn’t say, Mission accomplished.” Starting at 5 p.m. on June 6 — a year to the day from when Katz passed away — friends, elected officials and fellow cyclists will meet at the bike corral on 10th Street and Hermosa Avenue to celebrate the renaming of the “sharrow”-marked stretch of Hermosa Avenue between 24th Street and the city’s southern border as the Julian Katz Bikeway. But for Katz, a…
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