Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner Adopts Wildly Anti-Bicycle Policy

By Damien Newton | May 7, 2013 | 84 Comments

Starting on June 1, the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner service connecting San Luis Obispo to San Diego by way of Los Angeles is adopting a new policy that will make life harder for anyone planning on biking to or from the train. The policy is so onerous for bicycle commuters, one has to assume it’s intentional. […]

Behind the Scenes, Are Hollywood’s Councilmen Delaying the Repainting of Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane

By Damien Newton | Apr 12, 2013 | 14 Comments

Surely Film L.A. doesn’t have so much clout that it can hold up the simple repainting of an already fading and chipped green buffered bike lane on Spring Street over the wishes of the Mayor’s Office, LADOT, local City Council Member Jose Huizar and the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council. So what’s the delay? Opposing […]

Will Vehicular Cyclists and the “Right to Park” Trump Safer Streets in Boston?

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 20, 2013 | No Comments

Beacon Street in Somerville, just outside Boston, is perhaps the most biked route in the state of Massachusetts. It also has a terrible safety record. There have been 154 collisions involving cyclists on the corridor between 2002 and 2010, according to the state Department of Transportation [<a href=”http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/downloads/trafficMgmt/10TopCrashLocationsRpt.pdf”>PDF</a>]. “There are more bikes going down Beacon Street […]

Irony Alert: L.A. Weekly Story Mocks Cyclist Right to Lane Appears Next to Story of Fatal Dooring

By Damien Newton | Mar 19, 2013 | 4 Comments

Must be a slow news day. Dennis Romero at L.A. Weekly hasn’t exactly been a friend to the cycling community, this is the same writer who referred to CicLAvia as “Mayor Villaraigosa’s Bike Ride Pipe Dream” in the runup to 10/10/10. Today’s column is little more than a weird mocking of Metro’s “Every Lane is a […]

Zoning a Healthier Los Angeles?

By Mark Vallianatos | Feb 22, 2013 | 11 Comments

(editor’s note: When I saw L.A. County was being praised for updating its zoning code to encourage wider sidewalks and bicycling facilities, I went to some zoning experts to ask them to weigh in on the county’s proposal. Occidental College Professor Mark Vallianatos answered my call. – DN) Shock City The Los Angeles region was […]

This Week’s CD1 Debate, One of Three Big Events by LACBC

By Damien Newton | Feb 8, 2013 | No Comments

Just a reminder that Sunday afternoon, the Los Angeles County Bicycle and Occidental College/UEPI Program, LA Walks and Streetsblog Los Angeles will sponsor a forum for the three candidates trying to replace Ed Reyes in Northeast Los Angeles’ Council District 1. The forum will be moderated by Occidental College Professor Mark Vallianatos and begins at […]

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