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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 […]
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 […]
Help Me Cover Bike to Work Day
By Damien Newton |
Sammy and I are off on the Baby Bike to visit the Helen’s Cycles Pit Stop for his first Bike to Work Day experience. I’ll have pictures up in a little bit, but I’m pretty sure that there’s one or two more pit stops around L.A. County. Send me your Bike to Work Day pictures, […]