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Fight for Figueroa Bike Lanes Heats Up at Community Meeting
If there's one thing that was made clear from yesterday's community meeting for the proposed bike lanes on North Figueroa, it's that Councilman Gil Cedillo is going to continue dragging his feet on whether or not the Highland Park community is going to get bike lanes.
May 9, 2014
MyFigueroa Achieves Consensus, Auto Group Withdraws Appeal
This week, stakeholders hammered out an agreement that allows the MyFigueroa project to finally move from design to on-the-ground implementation.
May 2, 2014
Addressing the Hit-and-Run Epidemic: When “Finishing the Ride” Acts as the Launch of a Movement
So, this is what it takes to make people angry enough to care, I thought as I looked out over the sea of elected officials, journalists, cameras, and cyclists gathering at the start point for Damian Kevitt's Finish the Ride event Sunday morning.
April 28, 2014
L.A. Councilmember O’Farrell Opens New Sunset Plaza Bike Repair Stand
This morning, Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell opened a new public bike repair stand. The repair stand is located at the Sunset Triangle Park Plaza.
April 28, 2014
Memo to Metro CEO Art Leahy: They’re Called Bicycle Boulevards
At today's Metro Sustainability Committee, Metro CEO Art Leahy mentioned that he had visited Portland, Oregon. While there, he saw an "interesting treatment" for low volume streets making them better for bicycling. Leahy stated that cars hadn't been removed from the streets, but that they were diverted in some places. He said that these low volume streets carry hundreds of bicyclists every day.
April 16, 2014
Mayor Garcetti’s State of the City: Six Great Streets Announced
Mayor Garcetti gave his first State of the City speech yesterday. The mayor touched on a number of transportation issues. He pledged to "bring rail to LAX" and to open the 405 Freeway's new billion-dollar carpool lane "next month," a bit earlier than its October 2014 projected completion date. The most detailed transportation news was a peek into some of the specifics of Garcetti's Great Streets initiative.
April 11, 2014
March Transpo Committee Recap: SRTS, Counts, Parking and Commish Bayne
Yesterday's Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee meeting featured a number of livability issues that deserve more in-depth attention: Safe Routes to School, bicycle and pedestrian traffic counts, parking privatization, and more. SBLA will do a brief re-cap, and will track and report on these issues more in the future.
March 27, 2014
Vision Zero or Zero Vision? L.A. Needs to Change the Way It Thinks About Safety
Cyclist John Philips was cycling in heavy traffic in the San Fernando Valley when he was hit from behind by an impatient driver. While the driver did try to run, heavy traffic allowed witnesses to photograph both him and his vehicle. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) WAS summoned and a report was quickly taken.
March 24, 2014
Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley
[UPDATE: Here is a link to a video of Professor Shoup's talk and here is a link to the Q&A portion of the evening.]
March 20, 2014
Two New Bike Corrals Installed on Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Fabled Abbot Kinney Boulevard, on Los Angeles' Westside, is the first street in the city to have two bike corrals installed. Councilmember Mike Bonin alerted Streetsblog to their installation this morning and I was able to bike over and catch one of the installations as it was being finished and another corral in action.
March 11, 2014