Redondo Beach's Rolling Turtle Signs Become Official Today. Here's Where They Lead, and Where They Stop.

A small green turtle on wheels has been showing up on signposts along Flagler Lane, Knob Hill Avenue, and South Catalina Avenue. Under it, painted on the asphalt, are sharrows: two inverted V's stacked above a bicycle. If you have ridden past one on an e-bike or in a golf cart and wondered whether it applies to you, it probably does. At 1 p.m. today, Thursday, October 29, the City of Redondo Beach formally launches its section of the South Bay Local Travel Network at Dominguez Park.

The signs are already up. In an October 20, 2026 report to the City Council, Public Works said the city has finished installing wayfinding signs and sharrows on about 20 centerline miles of lower-speed streets. That is a good amount of network. For now, though, it covers trips inside Redondo, because the turtles end where the city ends.

What the Turtle Is Telling You

The Local Travel Network, or LTN, comes from the South Bay Cities Council of Governments. The council's 2026 media kit introduces the signs with the line "Slow is the Way to Go." Each piece of the system does something different:

The council says the network is for e-bikes, pedal bikes, e-scooters, and neighborhood electric vehicles, which the media kit also calls street-legal golf carts. It runs on existing streets with limits of 25 to 35 mph. The case for it rests on one regional number. Council research found that 70% of trips taken in the South Bay are three miles or shorter. Redondo's own report points to the "popularity of golf carts around the Beach Cities area" and the hundreds of students and families who bike to and from school every day.

Twenty Miles, and Not One New Lane

The network adds no pavement. The city's December 2025 staff report says it "uses existing slower-speed streets and does not add dedicated bicycle lanes." The project was paid for with a $1,272,700 Metro Measure M grant after the City Council approved the route map in February 2025.

What the grant bought is direction. Many of the quiet residential streets were already there. The signs connect them into routes that cross Pacific Coast Highway and the other arterials only at intersections with signals or stop signs. The same report says this is only phase one. Phase two will improve signal detection and fix specific intersections "to ensure that all micromobility devices are able to cross major streets more easily." That matters to anyone who has waited at a light on a scooter that the sensor never picked up.

Flagler Lane is the one corridor where you can see the city doing more than signs. As part of its regular street maintenance, the city added edge-line striping on Flagler to calm traffic, and the October report labels that work "(LTN corridor)." Dominguez Park, where the launch takes place, is at 200 Flagler Lane, on the same street.

The full set of routes is on the city's Micromobility Network and Parking Map, which also shows most of the city's public bike racks and parking spaces for golf carts and neighborhood electric vehicles. Use the map, not a list of streets you've seen. The city says it will keep adjusting the network "based on inspections and feedback from the public" as the project moves to city responsibility.

Where the Turtles Stop

The South Bay council describes a planned 243-mile network reaching from Inglewood to San Pedro. The council's own August 2026 status page shows how much of that is still a plan:

So Redondo is the second city with turtles on its streets, and the first one south of El Segundo. Your neighbors in Hermosa Beach, Torrance, and Manhattan Beach haven't installed their segments yet. A signed route that heads toward the city line will lose its signs at the border until those cities build their pieces. The council's long-term goal is a network across all the South Bay cities. For now, the turtles cover the trips that begin and end in Redondo: the library, the park, Riviera Village, and back home.

The Routes That Do Cross the Line Are Bike Lanes

Redondo's travel across city borders is improving through a separate set of projects with their own funding.

The city just built 0.38 centerline miles of Class IV protected bike lanes on both sides of Palos Verdes Boulevard, from PCH to South Irena Avenue. The October report says that extension creates dedicated bike lanes along the whole Palos Verdes Boulevard corridor "between the eastern Torrance border and Palos Verdes Estates." Narrower car lanes there should also slow traffic and make the road less appealing as a truck route.

In North Redondo, the North Redondo Beach Bikeway now runs another 0.2 miles, from Felton Lane to Inglewood Avenue. The city also added asphalt speed humps on cross streets where they meet the path, along with high-visibility crosswalks and green paint at some bikeway crossings. The extension is short, but the city calls it critical because it sets up the Metro Active Transportation project on Redondo Beach Boulevard. That project is between 35% and 65% designed, and Redondo submitted its plan-check comments in June 2026.

The Golf Cart Question

The network welcomes golf carts, and state rules still decide which carts can use which roads. The DMV separates two kinds of vehicles:

• Golf carts. The DMV's golf cart rules define one as a vehicle built to carry golf equipment and no more than two people. It has at least three wheels, weighs no more than 1,300 pounds unladen, and goes no faster than 15 mph. Golf carts generally may not run on highways posted above 25 mph unless a local ordinance or resolution allows it.
• Neighborhood electric vehicles, also called low-speed vehicles. The California Driver Handbook says these top out at 25 mph and may not use roads with speed limits above 35 mph.

Those limits line up with the network's 25-to-35 mph streets, and it's easy to see why the routes avoid the arterials. The council's media kit also says low-speed vehicles "follow the same traffic laws as traditional cars." This is general information, not legal advice. Before you take a particular cart onto a particular road, check its classification and registration with the DMV.

Today at Dominguez Park, and Next Week on Inglewood Avenue

The launch is at 1 p.m. at Dominguez Park, 200 Flagler Lane. If you're going, here are a few things nearby:

1. Heritage Court, at 302 Flagler Lane, has two historic houses, a rose garden, and a courtyard. The Queen Anne House holds the city's Historical Museum. The museum is open Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., so it will be closed on a Thursday afternoon.
2. The Redondo Beach Dog Park is a fenced, three-acre turf run with separate areas for large and small dogs. It closes Wednesdays until noon for maintenance, so it's open today.
3. The playground in the park's southwest corner was rebuilt with new equipment, rubber surfacing, walkways, benches, and fencing. A June 2026 city budget document lists the project as recently completed.

One week later, on Thursday, November 5 at 3 p.m., the city opens its first all-accessible play space at Franklin Park, 807 S. Inglewood Avenue. The playground is built for children of all abilities, with support from the LA Kings Foundation, the California Parks and Recreation Society, and GameTime. The city's announcement has the details. It also makes a good first test of the network. Open the map, find the closest turtle street to your front door, and see how much of the ride to Inglewood Avenue the signs cover.

If the new map has you thinking about where your next address sits relative to the turtle streets, the bike lanes, or the parks they connect, I'm glad to go through it with you block by block. Reach out to Vertice Williams. Let's Make Your Move Happen.