Roadblock, KABC and Putting the Media on Notice That They Are Watched
With apologies to the Daily Show, here it is, your moment of Zen:
Thanks for tracking this down, Rach.
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Car Driver Slams Into Group of Midnight Ridazz Near Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook (Updated: 2:11 P.M.)
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Last night, at the end of the “KoreatownWednesdays” Midnight Ridazz ride, a couple of dozen Ridazz were standing at the bottom of the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook waiting for the rest of the ridazz to make it down the hill. The ride begins every week in Koreatown and heads to the overlook. There the group […]
Praise and Criticism for Venice Blvd at LADOT Mar Vista Open House
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At last Saturday's open house on the Mar Vista Venice Boulevard safety improvements, responses were mixed, with LADOT reporting a majority of comments were positive.
ABC 7 Poses Backwards Poll Question While KPCC Takes a Second Try at Bike-Car Conflicts
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Weird wording…what do they have to be afraid of? Losing a mirror when sideswiping a cyclist? As we mentioned last week, there is reason for concern about the way the traditional media is covering the "bike v car" controversy in the wake of the verdict in the trial of Dr. Christopher Thompson. Sometimes there is […]
CicLAvia : 100,000 Cyclists, 0 Incidents, Millions of Stories
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(This is part one of our coverage of yesterday’s groundbreaking Open Street Festival. Hopefully later today we’ll have up a Streetfilm. Tomorrow we’ll review the reviews of CicLAvia. – DN.) There’s many ways to try and talk about yesterday’s CicLAvia. One way is to look at the numbers, another to look at the people, and […]
KABC Discovers What’s “Bugging You…”
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I have to admit. I expected worse. When I read on Midnight Ridazz that ABC 7 was running advertisements about a segment on the 11:00 P.M. news called “Road Wars: Cars v Cyclists,” I was expecting a total hit piece on bicycling. My friends in San Francisco and New York warned me that there is […]
Times, ABC7, and Metro Parking Stories Are Wrong and Misleading
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Yesterday, the L.A. Times ran Lack of Parking Drives Many Away from Mass Transit, an article by Laura Nelson. The Times starts with the example of a San Fernando Valley Metro Red Line commuter nearly missing grabbing a parking space. This leads to assertions of “parking shortages” on “L.A.’s light-rail system [sic – Red Line is […]