Quite a To-Do in LA, it seems:
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/1st_and_spring/commentary/film-crews-get-green-light-to-park-on-bike-lanes.html&
http://www.bicyclenetwork.com.au/general/bikes-and-riding/42382/L.A. banishes 'unAmerican' bike lanes
Los Angeles City Hall has reversed its bike lane plans for downtown LA and painted out recently installed green lanes. The reason? The film industry complained that the city no longer looked like America.
Apparently Hollywood execs have not become aware that bike lanes are rolling out in cities all over the US and that the real America is now filling up with bikes and bike lanes.
Last year L.A. city used federal government funding to create a new bike lane on Spring Street featuring green paint that would be familiar to Australia riders.
Film producers who periodically used this part of the city for location filming recoiled in shock and demanded it be taken out.
According to local riders production vehicles took no notice of the lanes in any case and parked all over them.
The City has compromised and will no longer use green paint on the lanes. In return the film industry has undertaken to not park in the lanes and leave them free for bikes to ride on.
Film L.A. said the film industry did not opposes bike lanes—as long as they did not look like bike lanes.
