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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
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
Language Is Important
It's been a common theme when Streetsblog covers crashes to note the soft bias of the writing and headlines in more traditional news sources. This bias nearly always deflect guilt away from the people who cause the crashes. It amazes me when I watch coverage of a tragedy where change is demanded, say for example when a fifteen year old died of a drug overdose at a "rave", versus the ho-hum when there is a traffic crash.
July 19, 2010
Dangerous Taxi Driver Causes Bike Crash, Broken Arm for Villaraigosa
Well, that didn't take long.
July 18, 2010
Tomorrow Night: Metro CEO Art Leahy Speaks to the Transit Coalition
Tomorrow night at 7:00 P.M. Metro CEO Art Leahy will speak and take questions at The Transit Coalition's monthly meeting at Philippe the Original in downtown L.A. Love him or hate him, the affable Leahy has been more open about his plans and vision for Metro with the press and advocates than either his contemporaries at other agencies or predecessors. He even sat down for a Streetsblog interview last summer.
June 21, 2010
Mayor Villaraigosa Calls Critical Mass Attack “Disturbing”
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa responded to an open letter from the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition concerning the incident from May's Critical Mass ride where the LAPD was caught on tape kicking at cyclists and attacking a different rider recording the incident. Instead of his press office, Villaraigosa uses the LACBC's blog to make his official statement on the attack, video and the LAPD's follow-up.
June 8, 2010