Bogart was able to get bike racks for the library, and the city’s Public Works office later notified him that racks will also be installed this year at all city libraries.
Bogart is also working with the city’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department to develop walking maps for Glendale.
“We also see it as a very good opportunity to spread safety information for pedestrians,” he said.
City officials will use walking maps from other cities, such as Santa Monica and Riverside, as a guide to develop Glendale’s, Bogart said.
Officials will likely place pedestrian safety tips on the back of the maps, he added.
The maps and bike racks — endorsed by the City Council — represent the latest development out of an overall effort since December to increase mobility and pedestrian safety in Glendale as part of Safe and Healthy Streets Plan.
The plan was created to identity pedestrian and bicycle safety problems in the city as well as recommend policies that would make the city safer.
Pedestrian and bicycle safety has garnered increasing support from community members and organizations, with nearly 250 people joining a stakeholders group devoted to safer streets, Bogart said.
Walking and cycling are much needed options for Glendale residents, Mayor Frank Quintero said.
“As time goes on, I think both residents and bicyclists will come to realize they can move around in Glendale, that’s something other than a car,” he said.
The concept of increasing walking and cycling in the city became an element behind the Riverdale Drive and Maple Street corridor project.
The corridor will connect Pacific, Maple and Carr parks through a serious of walking and bike paths in order to get residents to move through the city, Bogart said.
Designing the corridor is still in its nascent stage, and is contingent on securing federal funds, which has already been awarded to the city for other projects along the corridor, he said.
Bill Collier has owned the Bicycle Mart on South Brand Boulevard for 31 years and has been a longtime proponent of boosting cycling and safety in Glendale.
In the 1990s, Collier was on the city’s now defunct bicycle safety, parking and transportation board, which was devoted to the same issues that are currently in the works.
A study on the feasibility of creating bike routes in Glendale and Burbank had been conducted, but it sapped a $90,000 budget and the project never began, he said.
To see the effort regain its gusto gives Collier hope that physical progress will start to take shape throughout the city, he said.
“It’s great,” he said. “Anything for cycling in Glendale.”
