I am touring from Santa Barbara to San Diego and now unexpectedly riding solo after my brother crashed and broke his clavicle yesterday.
I am supposed to continue on through Los Angeles across Torrance Boulevard, through Carson and then down the LA river to Long Beach.
I have read that this routing can be unsafe especially for single riders. Can anyone suggest a better plan? Or is this just fine?
I appreciate everyone everyone’s thoughts on this. Thank you.
by Jgilber0
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That route is fine. We used to ride east-west from Long Beach towards Carson and Torrance and never had issues on any of the main roads.
An alternative is taking that beach path all the way towards Torrance Beach and getting on Palos Verdes and taking that until it turns to Anaheim and taking Anaheim into Long Beach. I guess this would depend on time of day as Anaheim could have a lot of industrial truck traffic during the day but at night it’s quiet but it might have a lot of road debris. Anaheim was the route we took quite frequently but we mainly rode in the evenings.
You could also just stay on PCH the whole way to Long Beach.
There’s going to be a lot of car traffic regardless but I do feel like they’ve put in a lot of bike lanes since I’ve lived in the area ~2010.