Rancho Palos Verdes bans bikes, motorcycles from road as landslide causes it to shift and crack

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Two-wheeled vehicles, including bikes and motorcycles, are temporarily banned from a two-mile stretch in Rancho Palos Verdes. Some cyclists aren't happy.

Effortlessly whizzing down a hill along a Rancho Palos Verdes bike path earlier this month felt freeing — especially after pedaling for several miles — until I saw a break in the asphalt below. Panicked, I pumped my brakes and passed over the scarred roadway — ungracefully but thankfully without injury.

Loui said he saw a truck 'clearing through the air for a car length and a half before actually coming back in contact with the pavement. It’s full ‘Streets of San Francisco’ style.” The city has for years patched up Palos Verdes Drive South as it has shifted due to the peninsula's landslide complex. A portion of the roadway has a drop so severe that locals refer to it as 'the ski jump.

 

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