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The Week in EVERY WEEK IS A BIKE WEEK Events
By Sara Bond |
(Note: In place of our usual Week in Livable Streets Events, we’re focusing on some of the best, non government sponsored, bike events in the region. Just because Metro and LADOT aren’t sponsoring events, doesn’t mean they aren’t happening. If the column proves popular, we’ll continue it in June – DN.) What to do on […]
Boyle Heights Meets Mexico: BH Resident Finds Her Mettle in Guadalajara Through Bike Pettles
By Kristopher Fortin |
After riding a couple blocks from her home, Bianca Uli Estrada dismounts her bicycle and walks on an unpaved, rocky sidewalk with light posts that split it down the middle. The 26-year-old Estrada feels the wind of oncoming cars and buses as she stops to let pedestrians pass. Earlier this year, a bus smashed and […]
Choppercabras 6th annual Spring Thing
By Damien Newton |
When: Sunday, May 25th, Noon Sharp! Choppercabras 6th annual Spring Thing ride is a bicycle event unparalleled in all of Los Angeles, perhaps all the globe! Bicycles bashed, blood spilled, hot dogs eaten, 2 wheeled mayhem unlike anything you’ve ever seen! (unless you’ve been to one of these before.) And it’s all free! Did I […]
Bicycle and Recycle Event
By Damien Newton |
Recycle/barter/trade/sell bike parts, etc. Women’s clothing swap. Admission is for sustainable garden matching grant. Green door prizes. Leftovers go to Bike Oven and local shelter. Email for flyer.
This Week in Livable Streets
By Joe Linton |
This week is your last chance for Metro’s community meetings on its draft sales tax expenditure plan: Metro meetings take place this week in Paramount, South L.A., and online. Re:code L.A. also wraps up its series of forums with a virtual meeting. There are even more Metro meetings, with the agency’s monthly Board of Directors meeting […]
Bike Share Demonstration
By Damien Newton |
Come, See, & Ride 3 vendors will be presenting their bikes: B-Cycle Bike Nation Bixi Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Between the Hours of 10:00 am and 2:00 pm Metro Headquarters, One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Downtown Union Station Patsaouras Transit Plaza For Information regarding this event, contact Lynne Goldsmith (213) 922-3068 Metro bike […]