If you follow the blue-and-green turtle from your corner, where do you end up? Redondo Beach has put up "Rolling Turtle" wayfinding signs and sharrows across town as its share of the South Bay Local Travel Network. City staff describe the installed network as roughly 20 centerline miles of lower-speed streets and protected crossings. The City set the launch ribbon-cutting for Thursday, October 29, at 1 p.m. at Dominguez Park.
The signs went up as one network, but the routes aren't all at the same stage. The City's public micromobility map lists each street segment as either "Existing" or "Proposed." Read street by street, it shows long finished runs in North Redondo, a short, slow and well-served stretch through Riviera Village, and a group of proposed links in the blocks around the pier. Riviera Village is currently the only part of the network where the map shows public golf cart parking.
Twenty Miles of Signs, and a Map Still Being Filled In
The Local Travel Network is built for e-bikes, pedal bikes, e-scooters, and neighborhood electric vehicles, which are street-legal golf carts. Metro's Measure M South Bay subregional program pays for it. In its October 20, 2026 status report to City Council, Public Works says the network is "analogous to Class III bicycle route networks found in many cities." It is a set of shared streets that avoid the busiest roads and cross them only at stop signs or traffic signals.
The same report says the work isn't finished:
Adjustments will continue to be made based on inspections and feedback from the public as the project transitions to City responsibility.
The City's biking and micromobility map shows the result. In the current snapshot, these are some of the main segments and how each is labeled. The map data is updated over time, so labels can change.
| Street | Blocks | Posted speed | Map status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rindge Ln | 1600 through 3500 | 25 mph | Existing |
| Vail Ave | 2800 through 3500 | 25 mph | Existing |
| Ford Ave | 1400 through 1700 | 25 mph | Existing |
| S Catalina Ave | 1700 through 1900 | 20 mph | Existing |
| Palos Verdes Blvd | 1400 through 2000 | 30 mph | Existing |
| Esplanade | 300 through 600 | 25 mph | Existing |
| Flagler Ln | 100 through 300 | 25 mph | Existing |
| Flagler Ln | 400 through 1500 | 25 mph | Proposed |
| Marshallfield Ln | 1300 through 2400 | 25 mph | Proposed |
| Pearl St | 100 through 700 | 25 mph | Proposed |
| Sapphire St | 100 through 700 | 25 mph | Proposed |
| Emerald St | 400 through 1000 | 30 mph | Proposed |
Rindge Lane is the longest single run listed as existing, covering every block from 1600 through 3500. The 20 mph limit on South Catalina is the lowest posted speed anywhere on the existing list.
Riviera Village Is the Most Finished Stop
South Catalina Avenue through Riviera Village is short, from the 1700 through 1900 blocks, but it is the only stretch of the network signed at 20 mph. It is also where the trip ends most easily. The City's map shows two public parking locations for golf carts and neighborhood electric vehicles, one at the Riviera Village Lot and one at 1702 Camino de la Costa. Both are on the Village side of town.
The streets next to the Village have changed too. The City recently built 0.38 centerline miles of Class IV protected bike lanes on both sides of Palos Verdes Boulevard between PCH and S Irena Avenue. That leaves dedicated bike lanes along the whole Palos Verdes Boulevard corridor, from the eastern Torrance border to Palos Verdes Estates. Narrowing the car lanes for the project also slows traffic on that arterial.
More changes are planned. At its October 6, 2026 meeting, City Council approved a design contract to start the Riviera Village Multimodal Enhancements Project. That project covers the micromobility experience and the streetscape on South Catalina between Palos Verdes Boulevard and Avenue I and the streets around it. The 20 mph block you ride today is the version the City has now hired designers to rethink.
Several regular reasons to ride to the Village already fall on these blocks:
- Sunday mornings: the Riviera Village Farmers Market runs 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Triangle Lot, 1801 S. Elena Ave.
- December 3: the Riviera Village Holiday Stroll runs 5 to 9 p.m. Catalina Avenue and part of Avenue I close to cars, and the evening includes late shopping, a makers market, a carousel, Santa and the Grinch.
North Redondo Got the Long Runs
Riviera Village has the finished stop. North Redondo has most of the mileage. Besides Rindge Lane and Vail Avenue, the existing list includes the 1300 through 1500 blocks of Felton Lane, Ford Avenue, Ormond Lane, the 2800 block of Phelan Lane, and White Circle, all at 25 mph.
The streets around these routes have also changed. The City extended the North Redondo Beach Bikeway 0.2 miles, from Felton Lane to Inglewood Avenue. It added asphalt speed humps on cross streets where the path crosses them, and it painted high-visibility crosswalks and green paint at selected crossings. Flagler Lane, which the report calls an LTN corridor, got edge-line striping to slow traffic. Palm Lane got edge-line striping and a pedestrian priority zone.
North Redondo has fewer places to stop than Riviera Village, but its regular destinations are close to these streets:
- Wednesday afternoons: the North Redondo Beach Farmers Market runs 2 to 7 p.m. on Green Lane at Artesia. On October 20, the City Council agenda included a discussion of keeping it as a year-round program, between Artesia Boulevard and Vanderbilt Lane.
- Franklin Park: the City's first all-accessible play space, at 807 S Inglewood Avenue, has its ribbon-cutting on Thursday, November 5, at 3 p.m. The City credits the LA Kings Foundation, the California Parks and Recreation Society, and GameTime for supporting the project.
The proposed links say the most about North Redondo's future network. Flagler Lane is existing only from the 100 through 300 blocks, and its 400 through 1500 blocks are still proposed. Marshallfield Lane is proposed from 1300 through 2400, as are the 800 through 1500 blocks of Rindge Lane. Once those blocks change status, the long North Redondo runs will reach further than they do today.
Near the Pier, Most Links Are Still Proposed
The pier side of town has one built piece. The Esplanade is listed as existing from the 300 through 600 blocks at 25 mph. Farmers' Market by the Pier, at Veterans Park, sits at 309 Esplanade and runs Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Most of the streets that would connect that waterfront stretch to the rest of town are still proposed. That includes Pearl Street and Sapphire Street through their 100 to 700 blocks, Emerald Street at 30 mph, N and S Broadway, the S Helberta, N Lucia and S Juanita blocks, Avenues C, D and F, El Redondo, and two blocks of Vista Del Mar. Emerald already has some changes in place. The City recently finished two traffic-calming curb extensions on Emerald Street that had been approved earlier. Its listed speed on the network map is still 30 mph, though, above the 25 mph of almost every existing link.
In practice, the pier-area streets are the ones where you may see turtle signs before the map shows the street as finished. Riders there are also the ones most likely to see the "inspections and feedback" adjustments the City describes.
What the Signs Mean, and What They Don't
The sharrow symbol on the pavement is a bicycle with two inverted V shapes above it. According to the South Bay Cities Council of Governments, it means low-speed vehicles share the lane with car traffic. On the sharrow streets, riders and drivers use the same lane. The exception is Palos Verdes Boulevard, an existing network segment that now has Class IV protected bike lanes on both sides.
The City's July 2026 handout describes neighborhood electric vehicles as street-legal golf carts with a top speed of 25 mph, and it says almost all of the network uses local 25 mph streets. The staff report adds that the network does not prohibit riding these vehicles on other streets where the California Vehicle Code allows it. This post is general information, not legal advice. Before you take a cart or e-bike onto any street, confirm the requirements for your vehicle with the City or the DMV.
At the city limits, Redondo's network runs into others that aren't built yet. The South Bay Cities Council of Governments reports that El Segundo launched the first portion of the regional network in November 2023. Its August 2026 media kit lists Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Torrance among the cities still to complete their pieces of the planned 243-mile regional network. For now, a turtle route that starts in Redondo stays in Redondo.
For a Redondo Beach homeowner, a street's status on this map is now part of how a block works day to day. If you're weighing how a particular street in North Redondo, Riviera Village or near the pier fits the way you get around, The Grady Group can walk you through it block by block, including off-market homes on the streets the network already serves.
