Day: May 18, 2011
Streetsblog LA
Tomorrow’s Bike to Work Day, Send Your Media to LA Streetsblog!
Well, tomorrow is the big day, Bike to Work Day is finally upon us. I'll be riding with a special guest to her job tomorrow and reporting on her experience biking to work. This guest is not a usual bike commuter. To help us round out our coverage, I need your help. While riding to work tomorrow, take pictures, video, or take note of special stories as you complete your commute. Send them to me at damien@streetsblog.org or leave links in the comments section below. As the day goes on I'll update our Bike to Work Day events page with your stories, pictures and other media.
May 18, 2011
Revitalizing San Fernando Road through Landscaping
The Sylmar Business Improvement District (BID) is seeking to improve and re-imagine a just-over-half-mile section of San Fernando Boulevard through the power of greenspace creation and landscaping. The BID isn't seeking to change the use of the road, all changes will happen on existing medians. Instead, they just want to make San Fernando Boulevard a more pleasant place to be.
May 18, 2011
Ray LaHood Gets Behind 2 Mile Challenge
On his "Fast Lane" blog this week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood gave a shout-out to the 2 Mile Challenge, an initiative by the Clif Bar people to encourage people to bike instead of drive. LaHood started by saying that with gas at $4 a gallon, there’s no reason to use a car for the 40 percent of urban trips that are less than two miles, yet 90 percent of the time, that’s what people do.
May 18, 2011
Cycling in the Desert: The Challenges and Joys of Biking in the Antelope Valley
(In the third installment of our series on bicycling around L.A. County as part of our Bike to Work week coverage, long time reader Michelle Chavez writes about bicycling in the Antelope Valley. Chavez's work is really top notch and includes an interview with (which you can read in its entirety here) and a bike commute in one minute in the A.V. Pay special attention to the road conditions. - DN)
May 18, 2011
Cutting Train Budgets Could De-Rail Transamerican Routes
The idyllic cross-country train trips that many Americans still take could get derailed by today’s “slash and burn” federal budget policies. Meanwhile, fears for the safety of rail passengers in the post-bin Laden era are drumming up political support for costly security measures and raising, once again, questions about why the federal government funds rail routes without any promise of profitability.
May 18, 2011