Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

Long Beach’s Leap Toward Livability – Part 2 of 2

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2009 | 11 Comments

(There’s a lot of great bike and walk improvements happening in Long Beach, so L.A. StreetsBlog has covered it in two parts, for now. Last week’s article featured the past and present; today’s features exciting plans for the future.) Photo: Joe Linton Long Beach’s mobility coordinator Charlie Gandy has big plans. During L.A. Streetsblog’s interview […]

Freedom to Be Inclusive

By Browne Molyneaux | Oct 8, 2009 | 22 Comments

Crowd shot from last Friday’s panel discussion with David Byrne. At the October 2nd ALOUD event with David Byrne I couldn’t help but notice the lack of racial diversity in the crowd. It did not match the demographics of Los Angeles and certainly did not match the demographic that rides bicycles in Los Angeles. Where […]

Unanimous BAC Votes for More Time to Review Draft Bike Plan

By Ted Rogers | Oct 7, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Bike Writer’s Collective huddles at last night’s B.A.C Meeting. Photo: Stephen Box/Facebook It may have been a few months late, but last night’s review of the proposed new bike plan by the Bicycle Advisory Committee had enough fireworks for the fourth of July. From BAC Chair Glenn Bailey to a small, but passionate group […]

Streetsblog Investigation Uncovers Secret Quasi-Governmental Cycling Organization

By Ted Rogers | Oct 7, 2009 | 7 Comments

A meeting of the B.A.C earlier this year. Photo: Ubrayj02/Flickr Okay, so the Bicycle Advisory Committee isn’t really a secret. But it might as well be. Stop any cyclist on the street and ask about the BAC. Chances are, you’ll be greeted with a blank stare – or insistence that he or she can still […]

Byrne-ing down the house: A Lively Discussion on Bikes and Livability

By Ted Rogers | Oct 7, 2009 | 2 Comments

Byrne and bike in NYC. Photo: Coromandal In the end, it really wasn’t about David Byrne. Even though it was billed as An Evening With David Byrne, anyone who attended last Friday’s panel discussion at the Aratani/Japan American Theater in Little Tokyo expecting rock star insights from the former Talking Head and current Bicycle Diaries […]

A Woman’s Comfort on Our Streets

By Enci Box | Oct 6, 2009 | 19 Comments

One of Enci’s many Thomas Guide maps, colored in for routes she’s taken. WI’m young, I’m an actor and a photographer and I’m a woman. This might be nothing unusual in Los Angeles with the exception that I’m also car free. I ride my bike everywhere and I take the Metro rail or bus to […]

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