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Opinion: Three-Month Expo Bike Path Closure Offers Win-Win Safe Streets Opportunity
At L.A.-Santa Monica border, a stretch of Expo bike path will soon close for maintenance. The temporary closure is an opportunity for implementing temporary safe bicycling improvements.
August 14, 2017
#DamienTalks: Nisei Week and #GoLittleTokyo
DamienTalks with Midori Mizuhara with Community Arts Resources and Cory Hayashi with the Nisei Week Foundation about this year's Nisei Week festival, which begins at the end of next week.
August 9, 2017
SGV Connect 4 – Bike-Share Gets Its Tires Wet in Pasadena
After watching bike-share systems come online in Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Long Beach, in July it was Pasadena's turn to launch its own bike-share system. Shortly after the launch, the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (COG) earned a grant to expand bike-share to fourteen cities throughout the valley.
August 4, 2017
710 Project Releases REIR; Proposal Creates Further Ped/Bike Danger for West & North Long Beach
Widening the southern 710 Freeway is not going to help Long Beach pedestrians and cyclists.
August 1, 2017
Praise and Criticism for Venice Blvd at LADOT Mar Vista Open House
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.
July 24, 2017
LADOT Hosts Second Workshop On Fletcher Drive Vision Zero Safety Improvements
LADOT included a tepid new alternative. Attendees favored none of the above. Another meeting is coming up.
July 20, 2017
Whittier Walk & Roll – Open Streets Open Thread
Though attendance was somewhat sparse, Whittier Walk & Roll saw thousands of people enjoying six miles of car-free streets
July 17, 2017
Metro Bike Share Expands to Pasadena
This morning Pasadena's new bike-share system opened. The system includes 375 bikes at 34 docking stations.
July 14, 2017
SGV Connect #3: Check Out the Future Foothill Gold Line Stations
Every now and then, one of our interviews turns up some breaking news. The six stations that will be part of the next Foothill Gold Line Extension will have 100 more spaces of parking for bicycles than the six stations opened last year. Much of that increased parking will be in the form of "bike rooms" similar to the bike hub currently opened at the El Monte Bus Terminal.
July 13, 2017
Venice NC Committee Calls for Data on, Not Termination of, Mar Vista Road Diet
For those of us living near the Great Streets/Vision Zero pilot program in West Los Angeles, every day brings new developments in the back-and-forth between advocates for safe streets and advocates for car commuters frustrated by delay. The road diet turned a six-lane road with a bike lane and car parking into a two-lane road with a parking-protected bike lane. The pilot project is set to run for one year, with reports coming in every three months.
July 6, 2017
