Month: September 2009

On July 28th 2009, the City of Hermosa Beach approved its Bikeways Master Plan. Hermosa Beach is a 1.7-square-mile South Bay city with a population of about 20,000. Their bike plan is a one-page map in a 5-page staff report, done in-house. Hermosa's City Council meeting videos and documents are very conveniently archived and indexed on the city's website. 

Early this week, I noticed a number of my favorite bloggers linking to this Elisabeth Rosenthal essay at Environment 360, on the mysterious greenness of European nations. The average American, as it happens, produces about twice as much carbon dioxide each year as your typical resident of Western Europe.

If you’ve got some free time at your desk over the next couple of days, drop in on the U.S. DOT distracted driving summit. There are plenty of platitudes flying around about the obvious need for “awareness” of how dangerous it is to operate a multi-thousand pound projectile while reading or typing, but there are … Continued

Hey now! This must be the place: Friday is a happy day to stay up late for a once in a lifetime event with David Byrne! Byrne is pretty well-known recording artist, one-fourth of the Talking Heads and the founder of the heavenly Luaka Bop world music label. Byrne is also many other things seen and not seen, including an artist, a bicyclist. He's created artistic bike racks, including one shaped as an electric guitar. He has written a new book called Bicycle Diaries. The book, I read, is about his true stories of travels by bike in various cities.

You've been asking for more ways to get your Streetfilms fix, and now you've got 'em.

Much like Stephen Box yesterday, it's kind of a waste of time to write a bio for Joe Linton.  Currently, Linton is an author, artist and urban environmental activist involved mainly in transportation and water issues. He currently works for Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange C.I.C.L.E. www.cicle.org.

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

LA's Draft Bike Plan is a huge document of thin ambition, that relies on controversy over process to distract from the fact that it lacks vision, it lacks substance, and it lacks the teeth necessary to bring about any change

Sunday's Crenshaw Crush drew cyclists from all over the city to Leimert Park, home of the Drum Circle, for a bike ride that introduced riders to the history, the culture, the politics and the people of the Crenshaw District.