We just got an email from Misty, a Wrigley Neighborhood resident, who wants to know how to get to CSULB without taking PCH the whole way! Her concerns are the fast traffic along the way, and I know that the hill coming back from the traffic circle isn’t entirely fun. Well Misty, here’s a few ideas:
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The blue line is staying almost entirely on class 1, 2 or 3 bike routes. It gets a little dicy going downtown since the signage is hard to find.
The green line is my personal preferred route; the route I would take each day. Daisy Lane is a quiet residential street that makes the North/South portion easy. First St. between Alamitos and Loma is a nice residential area with VERY wide streets (would make a great signed Class 3 bike route). When you get to E. Eliot St., take heed when using the bike route on the sidewalk – while it does seperate you from the cars, riding on the sidewalk has its own hazards.
The red line is a multimodal route that would really cut your commute time in half, as well as save you from being all sweaty and sticky when you arrive at your first class. Bike or walk to the PCH Metro station, get on the LBT 171, pay 90 cents each way, and be at CSULB in about 25 minutes.
Hope this helps! Happy Riding.
If you need a way from here to there, send us an email, if you care. We’ll send someone out and find you a route!
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Hey, that’s really nice of you folks to help find routes for us locals…I’ve put in a lot of research/experimentation myself, but I sincerely appreciate your ideas and efforts!
I think you might be wrking too hard to get across town by going all the way down to the beach and then up daisy. I have been using fifteenth to get accross town for a long time now and it suits me fine.
Fifteenth ends at PCH so you have to go a short distance down Anahiem road (which understandably has its own pitfalls) but crossing at 15th and Ximeno and 15th and Redondo is really easy.
You have to go right on Obispo and then you have to step down at lewis to new york and again at linden to fourteenth but it goes almost straight to Daisy.