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New Bike Lanes Underway in West Valley on Eve of Mayor’s Bike Summit
This past weekend, city of Los Angeles work crews were out scraping and putting down preliminary bike lane striping on Reseda Boulevard. The final thermoplastic striping isn't there yet, but the preliminary lines are down. The lanes extend from Devonshire Street to Parthenia Street - a total of 2 miles. Streetsblog readers will recall that these lanes were
approved in 1996, but remained unimplemented until bicyclists caught city staff lying about planned peak-hour parking lanes, which would have precluded the approved bike lanes.
August 15, 2010
Mayor Using “Google Moderator” to Reach Out Before Summit
Showing a little bit of tech-saavy, to help reach out to the notoriously technorati sprinkled throughout L.A.'s bike scene, Mayor Villaraigosa is using Google Moderator to rank questions for the Mayor in advance of Monday's Bike Summit. You can go directly to the web-page set up for the Summit by clicking here.
August 13, 2010
Rise and Shine, Mayor Announces “Bike Summit” for August 16
(Note: You can read full copies of the statements of everyone quoted below here.)
August 5, 2010
Planning Note: Tonight’s Bicycle Advisory Committee Meeting Postponed
I just sat down to lay out Carter's piece on the RailLA exhibit Downtown and wanted to pass this on to any cyclists checking out the site this afternoon.
August 3, 2010
Looking into Los Angeles’ 2010 Draft Bike Plan
While the 2010 draft is, in some ways, an improvement over the
disappointing 2009 draft, it's still incomplete and problematic. This
article reviews the bike plan process, then begins to analyze what's in
and what's missing from the 2010 draft, as released so far.
July 22, 2010
Villaraigosa on HuffPo: I Like to Bike in Los Angeles
Bicycle advocate and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took to the Internet to talk bike policy in the aftermath of this weekend's crash. While there's nothing groundbreaking in his essay; it's nice to see our city's political leader take a stand for bicyclists.
July 19, 2010
Dangerous Taxi Driver Causes Bike Crash, Broken Arm for Villaraigosa
Well, that didn't take long.
July 18, 2010
LAPD Outlines How to Report a Bike Crash or Theft
It's a story we've heard too often. A cyclist is riding legally down the street, when out of nowhere, blam! For some reason, a car slams into the bicycle for reasons unknown. The car speeds off (or the driver waits, it doesn't matter), and the bloody cyclist rises to his feet, calls 911, and for whatever reason, the police won't take a report. The driver who caused the accident gets off free as a bird. The cyclist is left to his own devices to take care of his own problems.
July 15, 2010
Facebook Face Off: Malibu’s Anti-Bike Crusade Runs Into Opposition
Generally, I try to avoid writing about Facebook "groups" that bag cyclists, pedestrians or transit riders and projects because they're not really representative of anything other than an angry person with a keyboard.
July 9, 2010
We Rode As One
By now you've probably heard the news about last Friday's Los Angeles Critical Mass, now with cops!, and have read touching accounts of cyclist' new B.F.F.'s. If you haven't, you can get a feel for how the ride went by watching the video above, and reading Kumbaya, posted here on Saturday and Undiscovered Country posted at Bikeside.
June 27, 2010