Originally Posted by GaryinLA

I appreciate the info on routes. I can benefit from looking at maps more, i have the City of LA bike map.
Hoover I see ends at Wilshire nbound, so it isnt as versatile as vermont.
4th St ends going westbound near LaBrea so it isnt as versatile as Wilshire.
Fountain ends going westbound near LaCienega so it isnt as versatile as Wilshire.
However i get the point that these streets you mention are safer than the big avenues i mentioned.
What i was mostly talking about above is going as far north as Hollywood blvd and going as far west as Santa Monica.
When i bike westbound now, the best option seems to be Venice Blvd due to the bike path. But theres a lot north and south of Venice Blvd going from east to west or west to east that Id like to bike to, without being forced to go via Venice Blvd because it is the only street with a bike lane headed that way west and east and much safer than biking on Olympic or Pico or Wilshire or Sunset, etc.
It is a similar situation with heading north and south all over town, the streets such as Vermont, Sepulveda, Western, LaBrea, are all not too safe to bike on, in my opinion. There are alternatives which you point out, that i can look into more but they are not as continuous or easy as opposed to if there were more blvds with bike lanes. There are certain routes that seem quite dangerous for instance if you wanted to bike on SUnset blvd in the sunset strip area or on Vermont in the Korea town area (I hear that street is one of the highest biking accident streets yet i tried to go on a Midnightridazz group ride and they went racing on that street at night.)
Wilshire Blvd across town doenst seem safe partiularly around Sepulveda where there is construction.
IF you look at the city of LA bike route map many major streets and blvds are just removed from view apparently because they are so unsafe for biking.