Recent Streetsblog LA posts about bike lanes

What You Should Do If You See a Film Crew Blocking the Bike Lane

By Damien Newton | Aug 29, 2012 | 88 Comments

(We’ve gotten a lot of complaints about bike lanes being blocked by cars/film crews/police cars/trash bins/etc. We’re proud to introduce a weekly series explaining what a cyclist should do when he sees a blocked bike lane. Today we’re discussing film crews. Next week, we’ll talk LAPD cars.) Over the past year, it seems that film […]

Separated Bike Lanes on South Fig? LADOT Presentation Hints at Future Project

By Damien Newton | Jun 15, 2012 | 18 Comments

In January 2011, consultants for the South Figueroa Corridor Project unveiled three different visions for the soon-to-be Living Street. The visions were labeled “Good,” “Better,” and “Best.” A recent presentation to Caltrans, made available on their website, shows current thinking on the legacy project from the project team and the new lead agency, LADOT. There’s […]

Happy Bike Month South L.A.: Trio of New Bike Lanes Appear, More on the Way

By Damien Newton | May 16, 2012 | 11 Comments

South Los Angeles has three new bike lanes. Maybe it’s the celebrations of bike week. Maybe it’s the push to meet the mayoral directive for 40 new miles of bikeway by June 30th 2012. Maybe Mayor Villaraigosa, City Councilmembers Bernard Parks and Joe Buscaino pushed hard enough. Maybe it’s just good livable streets attitudes taking […]

Add a Green Buffered Bike Lane and Number of Cyclists Explode

By Damien Newton | May 11, 2012 | 10 Comments

Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition released “2011 City of Los Angeles Bicycle & Pedestrian Count Report” and a separate study on bicycling on Spring Street in the Green Buffered Bike Lane. The result? Cycling in the city is on the upswing, as positive press, CicLAvia and new infrastructure are encouraging more people to […]

Who Parks in the Bike Lane?

By Damien Newton | May 3, 2012 | 20 Comments

One of the major obstacles to building a truly bike friendly city isn’t in the engineering and design of a street, it’s in the enforcement and respect given to all modes of travel. In the above picture, a truck is blocking the new bicycle lane on Sepulveda Boulevard. Sadly, this not an unusual occurrence in […]

Good News for the Westside: New Bike Lanes Appear on Sepulveda Boulevard

By Damien Newton | May 2, 2012 | 4 Comments

In April, a pair of North-South bike lanes appeared on 1.2 miles of Sepulveda Boulevard, providing a crucial connection from National Boulevard to the Venice Boulevard bike lanes. The new bike route actually spans two City Council Districts, the 11th District represented by Bill Rosendahl and the 5th District represented by Paul Koretz. I’ve had […]

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