Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

Reseda Boulevard Bike Lanes: One Mile Done, Four to Go

By Joe Linton | Oct 5, 2009 | 3 Comments

One down…Photo: Joe Linton Yesterday, the city of L.A. Department of Transportation (LADOT) made good on their pledge to stripe the first new mile of Reseda Boulevard bike lanes. The lanes were approved in 1996, but languished for various reasons detailed earlier, until bicyclists and community members rallied. It’s one mile of a five mile […]

Draft Pasadena Bike Plan Maps Released

By Joe Linton | Oct 2, 2009 | 3 Comments

This image, via CICLE/Flickr, is from this year’s Bike Week Pasadena. Last night, the city of Pasadena hosted a public input meeting for its new bike plan. The big news at the meeting was the release of a draft map of proposed bikeway facilities. Though that map is not yet posted on-line, the city’s Senior […]

Long Beach’s Leap Toward Livability – Part 1 of 2

By Joe Linton | Oct 2, 2009 | 3 Comments

(There’s a lot of great bike and walk improvements happening in Long Beach, so L.A. StreetsBlog will cover it in two parts, for now. Today’s article features the past and present; next Friday will feature exciting plans for the future.) All Photos by Joe Linton unless otherwise stated. LONG BEACH’S LIVABLE COMMUNITY AGENDA Long Beach […]

NYC’s Sands Street Gets a Sassy, Center-Median Cycletrack

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Chalk up more bikeway innovation to the folks at the NYC Department of Transportation. Now nearly complete, the Sands Street approach to the Manhattan Bridge is now safer and more enjoyable thanks to a first-of-its-kind in NYC: a center-median, two-way, protected bike path. Frankly, the facility is a perfect solution to counter the dangers posed […]

Byrneing Down the House This Friday…

By Joe Linton | Sep 30, 2009 | 17 Comments

Hey now! This must be the place: Friday is a happy day to stay up late for a once in a lifetime event with David Byrne! Byrne is pretty well-known recording artist, one-fourth of the Talking Heads and the founder of the heavenly Luaka Bop world music label. Byrne is also many other things seen […]

Ride Report: The Crenshaw Crush

By Stephen Box | Sep 29, 2009 | 3 Comments

Sunday’s Crenshaw Crush drew cyclists from all over the city to Leimert Park, home of the Drum Circle, for a bike ride that introduced riders to the history, the culture, the politics and the people of the Crenshaw District. Aubrey Provost, the 8th Council District representative on the City’s Bicycle Advisory Committee, has spent years […]

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