Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

How a Crop of Women Activists Is Making Long Beach Safer for Bikes, Everyone

By Brian Addison | Jan 7, 2013 | No Comments

We keep getting safer here in Long Beach—and as a rather stereotypical boy whose palate leans towards danger and risk (or what my fair counterparts rightfully call stupidity), this makes me happy. And it was of no shock to me that the first ever all-female class of League Cycling Instructors (LCI) accredited by the League […]

Change.Org Petition Asks for Bike Lanes on North Figueroa

By Damien Newton | Jan 7, 2013 | No Comments

The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition’s East L.A. Bike Ambassador Program is proving to be one of its most active local programs. While the group is meeting again tonight to discuss strategy for working with the city to improve bicycle access and safety in East and Northeast Los Angeles. It’s been a cause celeb for […]

An Apology: Santa Monica Gets Bicycling Right, and This Writer Got It Wrong

By Ted Rogers | Jan 4, 2013 | 6 Comments

Consider this a public apology to L.A. County’s bike-friendly city by the bay. No, not that one. The other one. It’s something I’ve been mulling ever since I met Andy Clarke, President of the League of American Bicyclists, at the ceremony honoring L.A.’s recognition as a Bike Friendly Community last October. As we talked, I […]

Long Beach Unveils Plan to Make “Most Bike Friendly City” the Safest Too

By Brian Addison | Dec 21, 2012 | 3 Comments

Glance to the right of this article and you’ll see ads geared towards bike safety. Sift through the work of this site and you’ll find endless accounts of dooring, commuter frustration, measures to keep one safe, how to “properly” ride a bicycle, riding on sidewalks… The list is as exhaustive as it is important despite […]

Eyes on the Street: Clear the Road

By Damien Newton | Dec 20, 2012 | 9 Comments

A personal errand took me to Marina del Rey this morning. Thanks to last night’s wind storms, much of Washington Boulevard was covered in fallen palms. Correction, much of the bike lane was covered in Palms. As I observed a cyclist veering out of the lane to avoid a palm, a car honked angrily. “Stay […]

Let There Be Light: Operation Firefly Lands in South L.A.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 14, 2012 | 6 Comments

I don’t know about you, but I feel naked riding a bike at night without lights. On the few occasions I have found myself out later than expected or sporting dead batteries, images of the myriad unpleasant ways in which I was sure I was going to die played in my head the whole way […]

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