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Happy Bike Month South L.A.: Trio of New Bike Lanes Appear, More on the Way
South Los Angeles has three new bike lanes. Maybe it's the celebrations of bike week. Maybe it's the push to meet the mayoral directive for 40 new miles of bikeway by June 30th 2012. Maybe Mayor Villaraigosa, City Councilmembers Bernard Parks and Joe Buscaino pushed hard enough. Maybe it's just good livable streets attitudes taking hold.
May 16, 2012
Add a Green Buffered Bike Lane and Number of Cyclists Explode
Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition released "2011 City of Los Angeles Bicycle & Pedestrian Count Report" and a separate study on bicycling on Spring Street in the Green Buffered Bike Lane. The result? Cycling in the city is on the upswing, as positive press, CicLAvia and new infrastructure are encouraging more people to embrace two-wheeled travel.
May 11, 2012
Who Parks in the Bike Lane?
One of the major obstacles to building a truly bike friendly city isn't in the engineering and design of a street, it's in the enforcement and respect given to all modes of travel. In the above picture, a truck is blocking the new bicycle lane on Sepulveda Boulevard. Sadly, this not an unusual occurrence in this part of the 1.2 miles of bike lanes.
May 3, 2012
Good News for the Westside: New Bike Lanes Appear on Sepulveda Boulevard
In April, a pair of North-South bike lanes appeared on 1.2 miles of Sepulveda Boulevard, providing a crucial connection from National Boulevard to the Venice Boulevard bike lanes. The new bike route actually spans two City Council Districts, the 11th District represented by Bill Rosendahl and the 5th District represented by Paul Koretz.
May 2, 2012
Middle School Students to Reyes: Build Those Bike Lanes! (Update: Read LADOT Comment Below…)
May 2, 2012
Plenty of Hurdles Still Remain for Progressive South Figueroa Corridor Project
(Not sure what the My Figueroa project is? Check out this story from last year?)
April 30, 2012
Riding with the Real Rydaz: Planning for a July Tour of South L.A.
Although a few state parks will close on July 1, Shuntain Thomas, the Real Rydaz, and We Are Responsible People (WARP) want you to know that the streets of South Los Angeles will be open for riding.
April 3, 2012
It Should Be Easy Being Green – Responding to the L.A.Times
For the second time in just over a month, the Los Angeles Times devoted a good portion of its real estate to hitting the Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane. A lot of the piece hits the same points as last month's editorial on the same topic, but transportation writer Ari Bloomekatz goes into greater detail and includes interviews with Film L.A. and even a brief recap of Carlos Morales' run-in with a film crew last week.
March 16, 2012
Getting a Permit to Close a Lane Isn’t That Hard for Film Crews
Two weeks ago, while researching a story on LAPD "bike lane stings" for Streetsblog, Carlos Morales came upon a television film crew blocking a bike lane. When Streetsblog posted pictures and commentary, some readers were angry at the crew for "Ringer" and others were annoyed that Streetsblog was wasteing time writing about something that "real Angelenos" have learned to accept.
March 12, 2012