they should just make one huge epic bike path from orange, cherry or w/e to connect to the beach. a nice safe path. that way if you live farther away from the beach, you could ride up to that street and ride it safely to the beach.
the cars aren't so bad yeah, but i just have that extra security with a bike path. the 2nd street bike/car share lane is pretty cool, but its so short, i'm greedy and i want more of those.
and the i'm paranoid to ride the la rive bike path alone... especially under the bridges. and i wouldn't ride there a night. looks shady, and hard to find help if something were to happen.