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Eyes on the Street: Law Enforcement Takes the Lane
Usually when I'm writing about the questionable behavior of law enforcement, I'm looking at how racial profiling and the harassment of people of color can negatively impact those folks' mobility.
May 29, 2015
Bike Lanes, Partially Green and Partially Buffered, Appear on Westwood North of Le Conte
Westwood and Le Conte is sort of a magical intersection for me.
May 27, 2015
City of L.A.’s First Parking-Protected Bike Lanes: Reseda Boulevard
Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles installed its first ever parking-protected bike lanes. They're on Reseda Boulevard in Northridge, part of the mayor's Great Streets Initiative.
April 3, 2015
Englander Touts Reseda Great Street Upgrade, Includes Protected Bike Lanes
The city of Los Angeles will receive its first parking-protected bike lanes this weekend. The new parking-protected lanes are part of a Great Streets upgrade to Reseda Boulevard in Northridge. They will extend one mile from Parthenia Street to Plummer Street, replacing existing conventional bike lanes. If readers are unfamiliar with parking-protected bike lanes, also called cycle tracks, this Portland video can help.
March 24, 2015
What Should Downtown L.A. Do to Get Ready for Bike Share?
Metro regional bike share is coming soon. If all goes as planned, a year from now, downtown Los Angeles will have system on the ground. It will include about 1,000 bikes at 65 docking stations. The system will extend from Union Station to USC. For more detail, see SBLA's earlier preview.
February 26, 2015
Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council Exec. Committee Sets Record Straight on Colorado Blvd Bike Lanes
Editor's Note: When people don't like a project, they sometimes criticize the process that lead to that project. We are passing along a recent email blast from the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council that set the record straight on the extensive public outreach process that lead to bike lanes on Colorado Boulevard. The Colorado Blvd bike lane implementation process have been criticized by some candidates running for Los Angeles City Council District 14.
February 25, 2015
LADOT Striping Some, Not All, of Bike Lanes on Repaved Venice Blvd
The preliminary striping is down on the resurfaced mid-city stretch of Venice Boulevard that SBLA highlighted last week. The site is east of the existing Venice Blvd bike lanes, in the Los Angeles City neighborhoods of Harvard Heights, Arlington Heights, and Mid-City.
January 30, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Venice Boulevard Resurfaced, Bike Lanes Soon?
Thanks to friend of the blog and L.A. City Bicycle Advisory Committee Chair Jeff Jacobberger for spotting this and bringing it to the attention of the city of L.A. Transportation Department (LADOT) and SBLA.
January 22, 2015
San Diego Sued for Putting in a Bike Lane
A lawsuit filed last week in San Diego [PDF] claims that the city did an inadequate CEQA analysis for a recent road diet and new bike lane on a stretch of Fifth Avenue.
December 22, 2014