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Bike Day Saturday: Tour De Ballona
With news of more attacks along the Ballona Creek Bike trail breaking earlier this week, it is more urgent than ever to get more people to use the trail and create a more safe environment. An increased safety presence from the city, especially the LAPD Pacific Division, appear to be in the works. But in the meantime, it's up to all of us to help make the trail as safe as possible.
October 22, 2008
Cartoon Tuesday: Cycling = Healthy, Pt. 2
Here's another installment in the "cycling is good for you" series, this time from New York insurer Emblem Health. In this animated ad, a Brooklyn bike commuter pedals across a bridge toward Manhattan, explaining that cycling affords him the same freedom he enjoys from his health care coverage. And to further identify with the target demo, there's even a little modal conflict at the end.
October 21, 2008
Bike Day Saturday: LACBC’s Paleta Bicicleta
(It's certainly no surprise to anyone that reads this blog, or that lives in Southern California, that this area is hardly known as a haven for bicyclists. But, that doesn't stop creative and dedicated cyclists from devising their own ways to make Los Angeles a bike town of our own. This week we'll profile four unique bike events that will be happening on one day this Saturday, October 25. For those that know where to look, every weekend is full of rides and events.)
October 21, 2008
Study Confirms: Safer Bike Routes Get More People Riding
How
effective are bike lanes at enticing people to ride? Portland State
University professor Jennifer Dill has been looking into that question
for more than a year, and her research is starting to get some
attention. Using GPS trackers to map more than 1,700 bike trips, Dill
found that about half of all bike travel occurs on dedicated
infrastructure like bike lanes or bike boulevards, even though such
routes comprise only eight percent of Portland's street network.
October 20, 2008
Not Again! Another Story Tells of Attack on Ballona Creek Trail
Late Friday, I received the following email after it had been forwarded a couple of times detailing another attack of a cyclist, David Santor, on the Ballona Creek Bike Trail. The good news is the LAPD seems to recognize that there's a real problem on the trail and wants to do something about it. However, the bad news certainly outweighs the good.
October 20, 2008
Portland Water Bureau Launches Bike/Truck Safety Campaign
Check out this video, via BikePortland.org, on bicycle safety, part of a Portland Water Bureau campaign to reduce truck-cyclist collisions there. Last month, the Water Bureau held a bike safety seminar, which involved cyclists climbing into the cab of a city truck to see (or not see) driver blind spots for themselves.
October 16, 2008
LA’s Sunday Streets: A Simple Switch by Ingrid Peterson
(Editor's note: As you probably noticed, I'm out of town. To make sure that you're provided with original content, I've enlisted the help of other transportation activists from around the city to write opinion pieces for Streetsblog. Here, 4sbb creator Ingrid Peterson makes a pitch for LA to have it's own Sunday Streets program.)
October 13, 2008
Jan Gehl Gets Sweet in San Francisco
It’s a good day in a city’s urbanist evolution when Jan Gehl comes to town, and now San Francisco can add itself to the growing list of cities around the world that have embraced his people-first approach to planning. Hoping to keep pace with the progress in New York City over the past two years, … Continued
October 8, 2008