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Ask and ye shall receive.  The good people at Green Apple seem to have heard our cry for better bike parking.  On my way past the Wilshire Crescent strip mall, the first place featured in Streetsblog’s “Bike Unfriendly Place of the Week,” yesterday I spotted a new bike rack bolted down to the parking lot.  … Continued

In an attempt to push back against the negative editorials that seem to be released daily against Mike Feuer's attempts to increase funding options for LA County Metro, the main writers for LA Streetsblog and Metro Rider LA went to their keyboards and fired off some letters to the newspapers in question.  The first ran in today's Desert Dispatch.

David Engwicht is a livable streets philosopher and author. Creator of the Walking School Bus, Mental Speed Bumps and many other innovative ways of taming traffic and increasing pedestrian safety, he has taken on "the challenge of a lifetime" to revitalize the downtown district of Wodonga, a small city in Australia often referred to as "Struggle Town" in comparison to its sister city Albury just across the Murray River.Watch the video to see great placemaking in action. Engwicht has initiated the successful Lounging on High Friday night series. The diverse programming features giant versions of board games and an eclectic range of seating options, the goal being to encourage residents to take back their streets and re-imagine what is possible. To create a more human pace, on these Friday nights Wodonga closes one street and removes two lanes of car travel on another to encourage relaxation and fun.

The tech work being done to move Street Heat to Streetsblog is almost complete and LA Streetsblog ought to be here soon. Before the final touches are made and the move is complete, I need a little help from all of you, especially you Angelenos.

I was just sitting down to write a story about new bike facilities at CALTRANS' building downtown when I found I'd been partially beaten to the punch by LAist. A lot of what I was planning to write about CALTRANS and the importance of an agency adding better bike facilities such as lockers (completely rented at CALTRANS), bike stands, and showers; LAist already wrote...and less than 24 hours ago:

I know, I'm behind on this one as well...Metro Rider has had their 2008 predictions parody up for a couple of days already. However, here are some of the stories that are going to be interesting to follow.

I know I'm late here, that most blogs did their "Look at 2007" well before the New Year, but what can I say? I was late to start posting in 2007, so I'm also late to do a review.

Monday, 12/10