David Murphy

Lately, thanks to years of hard work by groups like the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and an increasing cadre of bike-friendly elected officials and staffers, it seems like SoCal is edging towards being a more bike-friendly place. But there's still much to be done as we work towards this extremely important goal.

David Murphy is President of Angelenos Against Gridlock (http://www.endinggridlock.org), which is working to support a fully built out rail transit system and safer bike infrastructure, and striving to help make transit and biking cool. Clickhere (http://www.endinggridlock.org/press) to read other recent columns by David, who also blogs athttp://endinggridlock.org and tweets at @EndingGridlock.