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Tomorrow’s Bike to Work Day, Send Your Media to LA Streetsblog!
By Damien Newton |
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 […]
Bike Week Day 3: 2nd Annual Downtown Bike Ride
By Carter Rubin |
This group has just passed City Hall on the right with Caltrans/LADOT coming up on the left. Photo: Carter Rubin/Flickr Always wish you could participate in Critical Mass, Midnight Ridazz, or Crank Mob, but are more of a morning person? Then today’s Downtown LA bike ride was for you. At 8:30 this morning, roughly 100 […]
And the winner is…
By Damien Newton |
Wesley Reutimann of the San Gabriel Valley Bike Coalition is the winner of the Bike Nation beach cruiser. Wesley will be donating his bike to the non-profit where he works as part of their mini-bike share for employees. Before we conclude our coverage of last week’s fundraiser for Shay, I wanted to draw attention to […]
The Issue of Bike Theft in L.A. Goes Mainstream
By Damien Newton |
Now THAT’s vigilantiasm. Photo: Prawnpie/Flickr As cycling grows more and more popular, both in Los Angeles and across the country, the problem with bike thieves also grows. All of a sudden, those bicycles that were safe chained to a poll with a U-Lock are easy targets for thieves instead of safe. In response to growing […]
Today’s Headlines
By Damien Newton |
For the actual map of Bike to Work Day Pit Stops, click here. The Source Is Looking for 10 "Bikes as Transportation" Blogs. Help Them at Facebook. Few NIMBY’s for the Subway to the Sea (MyFoxLA) An Update on the State of Cycling in Santa Monica (Gary Rides Bikes) A Review of Bike to Work […]
The Top 100 Neighborhoods for Bicycle Commuting Have a 21% Mode Share
By Tanya Snyder |
City rankings of bike-friendliness — while fabulous click-bait for their purveyors — obscure dramatic differences among neighborhoods. Los Angeles doesn’t appear on any cycling top 10 lists, but the area to the north and west of the University of Southern California has a 20 percent bicycle mode share. The city of Miami Beach is no bike […]