Month: June 2010

Your Name Christine Fernandez Your Email fernande@scag.ca.gov Event Name SCAG’s Environmental Justice Workshop Venue Southern California Association of Governments Address 818 W 7th St. 12th Floor Borough / City / State Los Angeles Date 06/24/2010 Time 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Cost Free Event Details http://www.scag.ca.gov/events/eflyer/ejworkshop.htm Please RSVP. Participation is also available via videoconference from … Continued

For about four years, Gil Garcetti photographed women riding bicycles in Paris. Women of all ages, smartly dressed, use bicycles to get to work, visit friends, go shopping, go to the movies or the opera, even to go to funerals! Garcetti is working with LACBC to help urban areas of Southern California encourage bicycle use and thereby reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality, and fight the growing epidemic of obesity in America.

Subjects include best way to use the Tour LaBonge Ride and future media events.

Via the LADOT Bike Blog comes the news cyclists and community activists have been waiting for: The Department of City Planning and LADOT will finally be releasing the final draft of the Bike Plan, a mere half a year behind schedule.  Sources at LADOT have told me to expect the new plan to appear at labikeplan.org later today.  The Bike Blog offers a preview of some of the differences we can expect between the much-panned draft released last summer and the new version:

As I type these words, the ride cards, brownies, bottled water, stickers, Clif Bars and Luna Bars are all packed and ready for transport to the Flying Pigeon (3714 N. Figueroa Street) for tonight's fundraiser for L.A. Streetsblog sponsored by none other tha the Flying Pigeon Bike Shop, with an assist from the Eastside Bike Club, Clif and Luna Bars and Trader Joes.  We're going to leave Flying Pigeon at 7:00 for a slow-paced ten-mile ride following the old yellow cars line.  Afterward, we're going to party.  That will be cool.

A few years ago I joined Amtrak's Guest Rewards program, which every month sends an e-mail showing my current point total. These also include a few tidbits of the latest Amtrak news. This is how I learned Amtrak's Customer Advisory Committee (ACAC) is currently recruiting new committee members to fill impending vacancies from several areas, including the Pacific Northwest, Southern California, North Carolina and the New York Empire Corridor along with regular riders of the the Sunset Limited® or Empire Builder®. The ACAC was formed in 1997 to represent the needs and concerns of the traveling public to Amtrak management.

Map of what the country would look like if L.A. keeps sprawling. Via: The New Yorker Critical Mass Is Going to Be a Breeze (LAT) Judge Slams Metro’s Ethics in Red Line Contempt Case (LAT) Remember When We All Used to Debate the Bike Plan?  Well, Get Ready, ‘Cause Here it Comes… (LADOT Bike Blog) … Continued