Talk:The Strand (bicycle path)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Cycling Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cycling. WikiProject Cycling is an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to cycling on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the discussion.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.

	California Portal This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Southern California, a WikiProject interested in improving the encyclopedic coverage and content of articles relating to Southern California, its people, history, accomplishments and other topics. If you would like to help out, you are welcome to drop by the project page and/or leave a query at the project's talk page.
	This article is also supported by WikiProject California.
Article Grading: The article has not been rated for quality and/or importance yet. Please rate the article and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

This article was nominated for deletion on January 13, 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] 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..."

[edit] 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)