A La Cañada resident is asking state transportation officials to help increase bicyclist safety along Angeles Crest Highway by replacing missing signs that remind motorists to share the road.
As bicyclists converge on the mountainous pass, which recently re-opened after nearly 17 months of construction, La Cañadan Trent Sanders is lobbying the California Department of Transportation to replace three safety signs that were lost in the 2009 Station fire, and to install additional signs advising cyclists to ride single-file.
He's even offered to pay for the fabrication and installation.
Sanders said he was inspired to push for the increased signage following a road rage incident in June in which La Crescenta resident Earl Clyde Cox allegedly threatened a group of cyclists on the highway with his vehicle.
Sanders added that seeing firsthand how many bicyclists are using the reopened highway was another motivating factor.
“I came down from Clear Creek…to the country club there in La Cañada, and I started counting the number of [bicycle] riders coming up, and there were 57 people,” he said.