Bicycling
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How a Crop of Women Activists Is Making Long Beach Safer for Bikes, Everyone
We keep getting safer here in Long Beach—and as a rather stereotypical boy whose palate leans towards danger and risk (or what my fair counterparts rightfully call stupidity), this makes me happy. And it was of no shock to me that the first ever all-female class of League Cycling Instructors (LCI) accredited by the League of American Bicyclist graduated nine women this past month from Long Beach: Jessica Alexander, Krista Leaders, Bernadette McKeever, Elizabeth Williams, Maria Sipin, Henriette Alamillo, Renee Jones, Machiko Yasuda and Nayely Limon
January 7, 2013
Change.Org Petition Asks for Bike Lanes on North Figueroa
The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition's East L.A. Bike Ambassador Program is proving to be one of its most active local programs. While the group is meeting again tonight to discuss strategy for working with the city to improve bicycle access and safety in East and Northeast Los Angeles.
January 7, 2013
An Apology: Santa Monica Gets Bicycling Right, and This Writer Got It Wrong
Consider this a public apology to L.A. County’s bike-friendly city by the bay.
January 4, 2013
Long Beach Unveils Plan to Make “Most Bike Friendly City” the Safest Too
Glance to the right of this article and you'll see ads geared towards bike safety. Sift through the work of this site and you'll find endless accounts of dooring, commuter frustration, measures to keep one safe, how to "properly" ride a bicycle, riding on sidewalks... The list is as exhaustive as it is important despite its seeming redundancy.
December 21, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Clear the Road
A personal errand took me to Marina del Rey this morning. Thanks to last night's wind storms, much of Washington Boulevard was covered in fallen palms. Correction, much of the bike lane was covered in Palms. As I observed a cyclist veering out of the lane to avoid a palm, a car honked angrily. "Stay in the bike lane," an angry passenger could be heard yelling.
December 20, 2012
Let There Be Light: Operation Firefly Lands in South L.A.
I don't know about you, but I feel naked riding a bike at night without lights.
December 14, 2012
Best Practices: New Green Bike Lane in Thousand Oaks
L.A. Streetsblog has covered some of the "best practices" in bicycle and pedestrian planning in Long Beach and Santa Monica in an effort to expand the horizons of LADOT and local advocates. Apparently, the Ventura County city of Thousand Oaks needs to be added to the list.
December 14, 2012
It’s Official, 1st Street Bike Lane Will Lose Some of Its Buffer
For months, cyclist and writerRoger Rudick rides down the 1st Street Buffered Bike Lane. Often, Rudick stops near LAPD headquarters and snaps a picture of a police cruiser parked in the bicycle lane. Rudick would then send it to a sympathetic ear in the department, be it Sgt. David Krumer or Officer Jeff Kievit. After the complaints were too numerous to be written off as the work of a few rogue scofflaws, the LAPD revealed their internal strategy for informing officers that parking in a bicycle lane is not only unsafe, it's illegal.
December 3, 2012
As More Cyclists Hit the Road in Long Beach, Need for Clearer Code Emerges
Marking the fifth year of bike counts at fourteen locations throughout Long Beach, data shows that ridership has increased by an astounding 70% on city streets and 45% overall.
November 30, 2012
Next Steps For The Bike Movement In Santa Monica (p. 2/2)
In the first post of this two part series, I laid out some of where we are in Santa Monica with regards to bicycling, and my belief that we are a regional leader even if Long Beach has silver and we remain ranked bronze. However a lot remains to be done if we are to make bicycling truly accessible in Santa Monica, and as promised, in this second part I'll outline some specific strategies and milestones that may be useful in guiding the next few years.
November 20, 2012