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Eyes on the Street: L.A. City’s Three-Foot-Wide Bike Lane
Up in the West San Fernando Valley is what appears to be the city’s of Los Angeles’ most substandard bike facility, and the city has all too many inadequate bike facilities to choose from. A stretch of De Soto Avenue has a three-foot wide bike lane, two feet of which are the concrete gutter. It’s at the intersection of De Soto and El Rancho Road, located in the community of Woodland Hills. It’s just one long block south of the Metro J Line (Orange) Bus Rapid Transit and bike path, and right across the street from Pierce College.
June 1, 2023
City Councilmembers Want Rules for Ghost Bikes and Roadside Memorials
(Note: An earlier version of this story mis-identified the Council Member who introduced the motion as Mitch O'Farrell. It was introduced by Mitch Englander. Streetsblog deeply regrets this error.)
January 15, 2014
Opening Tonight: Ghost Bikes of L.A. Art Exhibit
Ghost Bikes L.A., a local art show honoring a decade of art, advocacy and community opens tonight 7 pm at Red #5 Yellow #7 in the Hel-Mel Bike District in East Hollywood.
October 25, 2013
Gardena PD Ticket, Harass United Riders of South Los Angeles for Taking Lane while the Case of the Hit-and-Run Victim They Were Honoring Remains Unsolved
The United Riders of South Los Angeles had just left the memorial site for Benjamin Torres, killed last October in Gardena in a hit-and-run, when they were pulled over by the Gardena Police Department.
July 12, 2013
Long Beach: Bringing Ghost Bikes to Life
2011 marked an extraordinarily hard year for Long Beacher Danny Gamboa: cyclists seemed to be getting killed far too often. In that year alone, Southern California saw a staggering 70% increase in deaths from 2010, with 70 cyclists losing their lives in the seven-county region of SoCal alone in 2011.
January 24, 2013
After Oregon Woman Is Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Pasadena, a Ghost Bike Is Planted
There are few things more moving and powerful than a ghost bike planting. Last night, the Eastside Bike Club, cooks from the Bike Oven and other cyclists made the somber ride to the spot where Jocelyn Young was struck by a hit and run driver in the early hours of Sunday morning.
September 21, 2011
Hundreds of Cyclists Stage Die-In at Jesus Castillo’s Ghost Bike
Last Friday, participants in Los Angeles Critical Mass, members of the local community and other assorted transportation activists all gathered at Los Angeles' newest Ghost Bike for a memorial for Jesus Castillo and rally for safer streets for cyclists. Nearly 300 riders participated in the memorial which included a "die-in" where hundreds of cyclists laid down on the street in a similar manner to war protesters. There to witness the act were a handful of LAPD officers and a representative of Eric Garcetti's office.
April 27, 2009