Mayor pledges bike plan

After hearing from more than 100 cyclists on the future of biking in Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pledged Monday to speed plans to boost bikeway miles in the city fourfold over the next five years.Troy Anderson in the Daily News.

Speaking at a bike summit, held a month after the mayor broke his elbow in a cycling accident in Venice, Villaraigosa said the number of bikeway miles in the city would grow by 200 a year until reaching 1,600 miles in 2015.

There are 372 designated bikeway miles today.

"This is an opportunity for us to say, 'We want to move ahead and accelerate this," Villaraigosa said during the town hall meeting at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority headquarters downtown.