Amsterdam

Long Beach is redesigning Studebaker Road as the largest piece yet of its 25-year push to build 300 miles of connected bikeways by 2040. The $65 million, five-mile project, funded by 13 federal, state and local agencies, adds 9-foot-wide protected bike lanes, concrete medians replacing bollards, raised bus stops, greenways and new sidewalks and curb ramps. It is meant to be finished before the 2028 Olympics.

The plan has drawn strong opposition from some residents and drivers who call the design impractical and costly, citing construction disruption, dirt piles blocking sightlines, and traffic backups from buses now stopping in-lane rather than pulling into turnouts. City officials and traffic planners defend the project as safer and more efficient long-term, pointing to record traffic deaths — 53 in 2025 and 36 so far this year — as justification for redesigning streets. Similar work is underway or planned on Clark, Pacific, Orange and Artesia. Officials and cycling advocates describe the effort as generational, comparing it to Amsterdam's decades-long transformation into a bike-friendly city.