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With the exception of those stories that are already posted, LA Streetsblog will be dark the rest of the day while I complete the Park(ing) Day ride with whoever feels like joining me for part of the ride.

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

As a lot of you know, back east I worked for a group called the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a transportation reform organization that fought highway and other car traffic inducing projects and promoted Smart Growth and alternative transportation. The Campaign didn’t advocate for a favored mode of transportation, embrace a certain environmental ideology or confine itself to a narrow geographic area; the Campaign argued regionally in the Greater New York area for better transportation based on the argument that our current transportation zeitgeist was driving dangerously close to the cliff without brakes.

More headlines over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Banned in NJ: Many Jersey towns don’t allow kids to bike to school. Photo: Voorhees Transportation Center Image Library, Leigh Ann Von Hagen. This May, a bill surfaced in the U.S. Senate that would triple federal funding for Safe Routes to School programs. Livable Streets Community activists have been on the case this week, mobilizing … Continued

LA Streetsblog will resume it's normal publishing schedule today and that means tweeting today's Metro Board Meeting at http://twitter.com/lastreetsblog.  For all those that suggested that I get a way to view the twitter feed on this site, it's coming.  I waited until I got to New York to ask for it so it's behind a couple other projects on the TOPP to do list, but it is coming and we did hear your suggestions.

This Saturday morning, a group of urban hikers will gather at 7:00 A.M. at the Angel's Flight Stairway for the Big Parade, a hiking event being organized by Streetsblog contributor Dan Koeppel, best known in this part of the blogosphere for his piece on L.A.'s DIY bicycle culture.  Despite it's long route, we're not talking about a marathon.  The slow pace and numerous stops of the Big Parade encourages people to join the core group of ten walkers doing the whole trip.  Already, Koeppel is expecting several community groups, a marching band, and other assorted fun in different sections of the walk.

Today at noon, Metro staff held a special briefing on a series of proposed rule changes that would make it legal for bikes to be on all Metro trains at all times.  However, this change comes at a steep cost to bike riders, the new rules also dictate that there should be no more than two bikes on any Metro rail car at any time.

Happy Fourth of July everyone! Streetsblog will be taking tomorrow off and returning on Monday.