Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

Economic Review of York Boulevard Road Diet Shows Bike Lanes Don’t Cause Loss of Business

By Damien Newton | Sep 25, 2012 | 8 Comments

A recent report by Cullen McCormick uses a road diet in Northeast Los Angeles as a case study to examine the economic impacts of reducing mixed-use travel lanes and increasing bicycle lanes. Despite the traditional opposition of local businesses when diets are proposed in front of their stores, McCormick’s case study finds there was little […]

Pro Walknomics/Pro Bikenomics

By Gary Kavanagh | Sep 17, 2012 | 4 Comments

In order for our society to tackle the challenge of creating a more walkable and bikeable North America, with the appropriate devotion of money, resources and public space, we have to build a solid political consensus. Unfortunately, some of the compelling reasons to prioritize active transportation have been unnecessarily politicized into partisan issues. We can […]

The National Women’s Cycling Summit: This Is Not a Bike

By Brian Addison | Sep 17, 2012 | 4 Comments

Leah Missbach Day, co-founder of World Bicycle Relief and the keynote speaker to inaugurate the Women’s Bicycling Summit, was very succinct with her main point about a bike: “This is not a bike.” The bike is a tool, she intoned; a tool that helps generate economic stability, community cohesiveness, and gender equality, particularly in poor […]

Carmageddon Now a Big Bike Weekend

By Damien Newton | Sep 14, 2012 | 6 Comments

Last year, Wolfpack Hustle stole the show, and many of the headlines, from the doomsayers that predicted Carmageddon when Caltrans had to temporarily close less than ten miles of freeway connecting the Westside of Los Angeles to the Valley. How did they do it? The bicycling team raced an airplane from Burbank to Long Beach […]

Morales: Young Man Killed During Critical Mass Lesson Learned, or Not?

By Carlos Morales | Sep 4, 2012 | 40 Comments

(Following this weekend’ high profile crash and fatality at Critical Mass, there’s bound to be some discussion of fixed gears, “brakeless bikes” and helmet usage. Here at Streetsblog, we don’t want to run away from the controversy or try and tell you how to think so we decided to run a series on the issue(s) […]

Santa Monica Monica Staff Present Bike Action Plan Update

By Gary Kavanagh | Aug 31, 2012 | No Comments

This week Santa Monica planner Lucy Dyke, the city’s Deputy Director for Special Projects (a.k.a. the person in charge of making bike stuff happen) presented to the city planning commission an update on the status of implementation of the Bike Action Plan. Although most of the progress outlined was highlighting projects I’ve seen or experienced […]

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