LA Streetsblog will be off today for Memorial Day weekend
Just a quick note that we’ll be taking today off to celebrate the Memorial Day weekend. Have a safe, happy holiday and we’ll see you again on Tuesday.
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Hit-and-Run in Boyle Heights Forever Changes Lives in an Instant
By Sahra Sulaiman |
She must have been traveling really fast, they speculated. People tend to fly along the bridge at Cesar Chavez as it is — it can be an uneasy ride for a cyclist, day or night. But she must have really been flooring it. “We didn’t even have a chance to call ‘car back,'” said Jose […]
Happy Memorial Day Weekend
By Brad Aaron |
Memorial Day 2007 fun on the GWB. For maximum verisimilitude, replay ad infinitum. Biting commentary on the D.C. dog and pony show isn’t just for Streetsblog anymore. The New York Times’ David M. Herszenhorn has a not-so-subtle indictment of this week’s Congressional hearings on gasoline prices, where slippery oil executives were lined up before […]
Late Night Trains? Late Night Bike Rides? A New Park? The Amazing Weekend That Was in Downtown Los Angeles
By Damien Newton |
This weekend saw three pretty amazing events in Downtown Los Angeles. Each unique and important in its own way, that shows how Los Angeles is on the cusp of becoming a world class city for reasons beyond the film industry and a truly livable city. In chronological order. If you have any experiences with the […]
On Fountain and LaBrea, a Ghost Bike Appears
By Damien Newton |
Yesterday morning, the sun rose on the corner of La Brea and Fountain to a new occupant on the street corner. A Ghost Bike had been erected by a group of bike activists to memorialize two pedestrians, one of whom may have been walking her bike across the street, who "lost their lives to a […]
Gardena PD Ticket, Harass United Riders of South Los Angeles for Taking Lane while the Case of the Hit-and-Run Victim They Were Honoring Remains Unsolved
By Sahra Sulaiman |
The United Riders of South Los Angeles had just left the memorial site for Benjamin Torres, killed last October in Gardena in a hit-and-run, when they were pulled over by the Gardena Police Department. They had stopped at the site to replace Torres’ original ghost bike, which had recently been removed by the city. They […]
Bike Working Group Gives Cyclists a Chance to Talk Bike Plan This Weekend
By Stephen Box |
Alex Thompson presents the Bicycling Bill of Rights. Photo: Stephen Box (update: The LA Bike Working Group event to review the Bike Plan has had to change time and venue. The new location and time is Saturday, 2pm, at the Hollywood Adventist Church, 1711 N. Van Ness Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028. We’ll be in the […]