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Many Americans, even the hardest car-culture warrior, have fond memories of riding a bicycle growing up.  My family had a nice tradition of long Saturday or Sunday morning bike rides to a gigantic Central Pennsylvania park where we would have breakfast and play amongst the trees.  It was nice.  So how better to celebrate Mother's Day than by showing Mom you remember those fun days by donating to the Eco-Village?  If you grew up in a household that wasn't as bike-friendly, you can celebrate by giving her another gift that keeps on giving: a tax deduction.

Members of a broad coalition hailing from throughout California are headed to Sacramento next week to push policymakers to save transit funding and enact sustainable transportation planning reforms.

(With apologies to Tanya Snyder...)

In what has become an right of Spring, Streetsblog returns to the los Angeles Eco-Village (116 Bimini Place) for our Third Annual Spring fundraiser on May 11 from 6:00 P.M. until late in the evening.  The event will feature food and drinks, the debut of a new Streetfilm, a raffle and the best darned company and conversation that can be found anywhere.  The Eco-Village fundraisers have been one of our most important fundraisers raising needed funds as the Streetsblogs push our combined fundraising campaign.

The week after Ciclavia I find it hard to settle my mind from the sights and sounds and motion of magical urbanism on the streets of Los Angeles.  But, alas, the mundane world of traffic, work, and policy beckons. To ease the transition, I’m trying to focus in on what the key policy lessons of Ciclavia are for the region’s transportation system. For me, the overwhelming ‘meaning’ of Ciclavia is that a wide range of people will throng to streets if they can bike and walk without having to share space with cars.

We're going to experiment in the coming weeks with a new weekly series highlighting a couple of stories that we weren't able to build into full Streetsblog stories, but deserve more than just a mention in Today's Headlines.

Parking reformers, this is one you're going to want to bookmark.

(Note: The following article was this year's April Fool's article.  We've done this every year (save 2009 when the regular stories were about people killed in car crashes...it just didn't seem right.  For past stabs at comedy see 2008's article on a new P.S.A. campaign from LADOT as part of the "B Safe of B Roadkill" campaign, 2010's article on the speech given by then LADOT General Manager Rita Robinson in New York or 2011's announcement that Robinson's successor would be none other than Ed Begley Jr.)