Talk:Marvin Braude Bike Trail

Suggestion for improvement
Re: the "medium-steep grade ramp" refered to in the last sentence: Bicycle riding is prohibited on the ramp by signage. Should this sentence be stricken, or revised to say that bikers can "WALK their bikes up the ramp..."

Name change
This article is incorrectly named. The Strand is the walkway and sometimes bikeway/walkway that traverses along the beach cities. The Strand ends at the El Segundo power plants. The bike path uses the Strand as part of its course, but the bike path goes well beyond the beach cities.

Officially, what is called the Strand here is two bicycle paths, the South Bay Bicycle Path, and the Santa Monica Bicycle Path. They join at the western terminus of Washington Blvd. Since the two paths do meet to form a contigous path, I think it is appropriate for the two to be in one wiki article, but it should be titled "The Santa Monica/South Bay Bicycle Path" [or "Paths"]

Any comments before I undertake to make this name change? Lesiz 04:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Lesiz aka Les Borean, Torrance

There is a mileage system recorded in the bike path at 0.5 mile intervals. Perhaps the easiest to see is just on the north side of the bridge at PDR. Peering onto the path at half mile intervals will reveal further markers, to most northerly of which I have found is by the Ocean Park parking lot. Another is by the Ritz Carlton (MDR). Clearly this marking system crosses the "two-path" boundary. Where do the different names come from? I have never heard it called "The Strand". John Burge (with the red San Nicolas Electric Bicycle) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.3.20 (talk) 22:34, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Re-write
I just re-wrote much of the article. I merged the two main sections into one, describing the route. The article didn't make much sense in its previous state with the description of the Santa Monica portion of the path split off from the rest. Its far from perfect, so feel free to work on it, but hopefully its a start. I had to remove a lot of extraneous and un-encylopedic information. We probably don't need turn-by-turn instructions on how to navigate the path. What this article does need is a history of how the path came to be created. It wasn't created in one fell swoop and there were legal battles along the way, so it is pretty important. --MidnightDesert (talk) 00:51, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * We could also use a list of all of the movies and television shows that The Strand has appeared in. --MidnightDesert (talk) 08:30, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

It isn't really a "trail" at all
The Los Angeles County site refers to the Bike path as a path; it is entirely on pavement, made from poured concrete.

Further recommend, for improvement of the article, that the article be broken into two separate articles, one for the separate bike path by the city of Santa Monica, one for the separate bike path by the County of Los Angeles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.183.224.2 (talk) 00:32, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

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