Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

This Week’s Hot Trend, Large Bike Parking Facilities Near Rail

By Damien Newton | Nov 18, 2011 | 13 Comments

This week’s been a big one for bike parking in L.A. County with the opening of Bike Stop in Burbank and Bike Center later this morning in Santa Monica. Meanwhile, the Culver City Bike Coalition is looking at plans for the Expo Line stop in Culver City and wondering “what about us?” Streetsblog presents a […]

Will There Ever Be a Bike Path for Expo Line Phase II?

By Damien Newton | Nov 17, 2011 | 3 Comments

It’s been a year since a group of Westside homeowners filed a lawsuit against the Expo Bike Path that would run adjacent to the rail line through the Westside into Santa Monica. The homeowners alleged that the categorical exclusion (CE) granted to the bikeway (a technical term meaning that only a partial environmental review is […]

CA Cyclists Call on Boxer to Respect Right to the Road

By Damien Newton | Nov 15, 2011 | 14 Comments

Senator Barbara Boxer is receiving bi-partisan praise for managing to move a transportation policy and funding bill through the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in a divided Senate, but she may be facing trouble from a usually supportive constituency back home. Regardless of how one feels about the new funding formulas proposed in the bill, there […]

City Not Looking to Ban Bikes on Sidewalks, But Staff and Council Want Some Clarification

By Damien Newton | Nov 7, 2011 | 52 Comments

(Note: Statistically speaking, riding a bicycle on a sidewalk isn’t a safe way to bicycle versus the street. However, for many novice or otherwise inexperienced riders the sidewalk is the only place they feel safe riding. The below piece discusses the safety concerns for pedestrians, but sidewalk riding poses some danger for cyclists as well. […]

New Routing Near Silver Lake Reservoir Could Close off Part of Park for Bikes

By Damien Newton | Nov 1, 2011 | 9 Comments

Visitors to Griffith Park over the last year have noted that there is some major construction going on near the Silver Lake Resevoir. In order to protect Angelenos from any future plans to poison the water, the federal government is ordering that all open air resevoirs be taken offline and replaced with below ground ones. […]

L.A. Seeks Federal TIGER Funds for 50-Mile River Bikeway

By Joe Linton | Oct 26, 2011 | 12 Comments

Today’s Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee meeting includes action on the Transportation Department’s (LADOT’s) proposal to seek $13million in federal funding for extending the Los Angeles River bikeway. The federal funding sought is part of a federal funding opportunity called Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER), a stimulus funding that encourages innovative and sustainable transportation. While […]

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