Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

Streetsblog Reader Survey: Howard Krepack

By Damien Newton | Sep 6, 2011 | 5 Comments

Usually, our monthly survey features a Q and A between you, the readers, and one of the elected officials or government staffers that writes, passes and enforces transportation policy. This month, we’re going to do something a little different. I asked personal injury attorney and avid cyclist Howard Krepack if he would take your questions […]

Give Me Three Rides to the Assembly Floor. Republican Opposition Expected.

By Damien Newton | Aug 31, 2011 | 6 Comments

This Friday, S.B. 910, the Three Feet Passing Law authored by Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-LB) heads to the Assembly Floor. S.B. 910 has been passing committees and the full Assembly by mostly party-line votes, but that doesn’t mean that passage is assured in two days. The California Bicycle Coalition has a sample letter to email […]

Confessions of a Sidewalk Rider and Commentary on L.B.’s “Walk It or Lock It”

By Damien Newton | Aug 31, 2011 | No Comments

Hello, my name is Damien. <Hi, Damien.> And I occasionally ride my bicycle on the sidewalk, and have been since 2008. It’s true. It’s not an uncommon site to see me in the Streetsblog Baby Mover hiking up Barrington Blvd. or back and forth on National Boulevard riding on the sidewalk. I don’t ride […]

Best Practices: Bike It! Day in Santa Monica

By Damien Newton | Aug 30, 2011 | 5 Comments

In the fall of 2007, a pair of high school students in Santa Monica High School (Samohi), decided to organize their own Bike to School Day. Somewhere between 80 and 100 high school students took part that first year, which is a respectable number for a student-run event with no budget, but nobody could have0for […]

Making Change on North Figueroa Street

By Damien Newton | Aug 25, 2011 | 2 Comments

Earlier this year, when the designs for South Figueroa’s My Figueroa project were released, Josef Bray-Ali wasn’t happy. While many advocates celebrated designs that would, if implemented, result in segregated bike paths, transit-only lanes, pedestrian plazas (at a minimum), Bray-Ali saw another major investment in the Downtown and area around L.A. Live. Meanwhile, the portion […]

From Minneapolis: Ten Street Design Solutions to Transform Your City

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Aug 23, 2011 | No Comments

Only 11 cities in the U.S. have earned the title of Gold-Level Bicycle Friendly Community from the League of American Bicyclists. In May, Minneapolis joined the select ranks and, last week, the city got a chance to show off its bike progress to a national audience of active transportation advocates and officials. When Mayor R.T. […]

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