Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

Motion to Move Forward on Rail-to-River Bikeway Project up for Vote Thursday

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 22, 2014 | 15 Comments

In a motion before the Metro Executive Management Committee last Thursday morning, County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Mark Ridley-Thomas cited the successful “transformation of unused or abandoned rail right-of-ways into pedestrian access and bicycle routes” around the country and here in L.A. as support for his call that the Board direct Chief Executive Officer […]

Report: “Multi-Modal Level of Service” Metrics Not Quite Up to the Challenge

By Joe Linton | Oct 17, 2014 | No Comments

Livability proponents celebrate that car-centric Level of Service (LOS) is finally on its way out, at least in California.Wouldn’t it be great if there was a similar bike- or walk-centric metric that could be used instead? UCLA Lewis Center and Institute for Transportation Studies researchers have studied some of the published metrics for evaluating how well streets […]

SCAG Staff Release ATP Bike/Ped Project Funding Recommendations

By Joe Linton | Sep 29, 2014 | 1 Comment

The first year of the state’s new Active Transportation Funding (ATP) program is drawing to a close. ATP is the main source of funding for walking and bicycling projects and programs in L.A. County. In the past, L.A. County bike and ped projects were primarily funded by Metro’s Call for Projects. Changes at the federal level […]

Happy New Year, See You Tomorrow

By Damien Newton | Sep 25, 2014 | 1 Comment

It’s Rosh Hashanah. Streetsblog L.A. will publishing lightly today and tomorrow.

What the Latest Census Data Says About L.A. City Bicycle Commuting

By Joe Linton | Sep 23, 2014 | 6 Comments

Last week, Streetsblog L.A. ran a national Streetsblog Network story DC and New Orleans Closing the Bike Commute Gap with Portland which summarized this BikePortland story. Those stories examined recently released Census data to shows trends in bicycle commuting. Since 2008, about 6 percent of Portland commuters traveled primarily by bike. The Census shows that bike […]

Wilmington’s New Bike Lane Network, and What It Does and Doesn’t Do

By Joe Linton | Sep 11, 2014 | 21 Comments

Where is California’s most concentrated bike lane network? Long Beach? Davis? San Francisco? Santa Barbara? San Luis Obispo? How about Wilmington? Some readers may be wondering: just where is Wilmington? Wilmington is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. It is directly inland from the Port of Los Angeles. San Pedro is west of […]

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