Bike Parking
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Bike Parking Ordinance Moves Back to City Council
(Update, January 17: The City Council passed the ordinance without any discussion at yesterday's full meeting. It now awaits the Mayor's signature to become law. - DN)
It's been over 15 months since it seemed the city was poised to enact a progressive bike parking ordinance that would dramatically increase the amount of bicycle parking required in new developments. In that time, the ordinance was sent back to City Planning for a handful of technical corrections, before it re-appeared in front of the City Council Planning and Land Use Committee hearing earlier today.
January 8, 2013
Santa Monica Bike Center Celebrates Its First Birthday in Style
This weekend, Santa Monica Bike Center, the largest bike parking facility in the country, celebrated its one year birthday.
November 19, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Instant Bike Parking in Key West, Florida
Brad Aaron, back down in Key West for spring break, files this update from South Florida's bike-friendly isle.
April 12, 2012
First Look at Farmer’s Field Traffic EIR: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Earlier today, AEG announced the completion of the first draft of environmental documents for Farmers Field, the proposed football stadium for Downtown Los Angeles. The document, available on City Planning's website, is a mammoth 10,000 pages and the ceremonial handing over of the documents to the city at today's event involved 13 overflowing three ring binders.
April 5, 2012
Santa Monica Celebrates Opening of Bike Corrals
(Do you crave more Santa Monica coverage? If so, join us tomorrow at The Library Alehouse where we'll be raising funds and raffling off cool prizes.)
March 26, 2012
This Week’s Hot Trend, Large Bike Parking Facilities Near Rail
This week's been a big one for bike parking in L.A. County with the opening of Bike Stop in Burbank and Bike Center later this morning in Santa Monica. Meanwhile, the Culver City Bike Coalition is looking at plans for the Expo Line stop in Culver City and wondering "what about us?" Streetsblog presents a quick tale of three public cycling centers:
November 18, 2011
Progressive Bike Ordinance One Step Away…
If someone were visiting L.A. Streetsblog today for the first time, they would think that we are in the midst of a bicycling renaissance. Our Mayor is pushing our famously progressive Governor to sign a three foot passing law for cyclists. CicLAvia, the largest car-free block party North of Bogota, is coming up this weekend. Sharrows are popping up all over the city. And on Friday, the City Council moved one step closer to finalizing a progressive new bike parking ordinance.
October 3, 2011
Storify: You Tell The Story from Long Beach’s Bike Station Opening Last Week
[View the story "You Tell The Story: A New BikeStation Opens in Long Beach" on Storify]
September 19, 2011
Bike Parking Ordinance Sails Through Committee Despite Bike Clutter Distraction
Yesterday, the City Council Planning and Land Use Committee directed city staff to draft a final ordinance to ammend the city's parking ordinance to require more bicycle parking and provide incentives to increase bike parking beyond the minimums. The Bike Parking ordinance was item #5 on yesterday's agenda.
September 14, 2011
Pasadena May Be More Bike Friendly Than L.A., But It Needs More Parking!
(This is the last part of our Bike Week 2011 Series on people's biking experiences in different corners of L.A. County. Our last entrant is from our "Pasadena Correspondent" Brigham Yen, who is a little different than our other writers this week in that he doesn't represent a formal biking organization but still brings a wealth of information to his writings. - DN)
May 20, 2011