Hermosa Beach council trades car lanes for bike lanes, dining decks
Hermosa Avenue dining decks will be enlarged under a program approved by tge Hermosa City Council One lane in each direction of Hermosa Avenue will be closed for at least six months in downtown Hermosa Beach in order to provide more opportunities for pandemic-battered businesses to head outdoors and to create more space for cyclists and pedestrians, Hermosa’s council decided Tuesday. The council unanimously settled on an option that will double the amount of space available for outdoor dining and retail options and create a dedicated north- and south-bound bike lane while reducing car lanes from two lanes in each direction to one. To accommodate those new features, all parking will be moved to the west side of the street, with capacity expanded by painting parking space lines at an angle, rather than parallel to the curb. The decision resembles those made by other cities in the United States and throughout the world, who have sought to rethink public spaces as the coronavirus transforms long-established habits of dining, shopping and getting around. Staff had delivered plans to extend the closures, which begin at 14th Street, only as far south as 10th Street. But the council asked…
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