Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

Bike Trail Funding Survives 583 Amendments

By Damien Newton | Feb 18, 2011 | No Comments

Bet you weren’t expecting to hear any good news from the floor of the House today, were you? Turns out not everyone in Congress is as axe-happy as some high-profile Republicans. For example, Amtrak survived one attempt to cut all its funding and another to cut $447 million. (Amtrak funding does stand to lose $224 […]

What is LAMC 80.27 and Why Is It Called “the Anti-Cargo Bike Law”

By Damien Newton | Feb 18, 2011 | 5 Comments

Last week, in the run-up to the City Council Transportation/Planning and Land Use Committee Hearing on the Bike Plan, Josef Bray-Ali wrote, “I don’t think I can make it, but if someone can mention LAMC 80.27 (the anti-cargo bike law) and ask for its repeal as part of the bike plan that would be awesome.” […]

From Spokes People to Bikeroots

By Carter Rubin | Feb 10, 2011 | 7 Comments

Back in January 2009, Los Angeles Magazine writer Matthew Segal took an assignment as an embedded reporter (so to speak) with bike activists and group riders. The resulting article, titled “Bike Culture: Spokes People,” was a thoughtful five-page assessment of the state of the bike community in Los Angeles from the perspective of a curious […]

More Details on the Proposed “South Beach Bicycle Path” Extension

By Damien Newton | Feb 9, 2011 | 3 Comments

Last week, we reported on an effort to add a proposed extension to the South Bay Bike Path through Venice Beach and away from Washington Boulevard. There was some confusion as to how that extension would work, and yesterday Jim Kennedy provided images that better explain the path. We’re just hours away from the Joint […]

Is Extending South Bay Bike Path Worth a Debate? LADOT, NIMBY’s Say No.

By Damien Newton | Feb 1, 2011 | 14 Comments

For Jim Kennedy, the matter is a simple one. The South Bay Beach Bicycle Path is a unique public resource, and cyclists shouldn’t be forced to take a detour down Washington Boulevard in to Marina del Rey when they hit the Venice Pier to keep riding on it. However, nothing is that simple when it […]

Biggest TRB Meeting Ever Highlights Visionary Bicycle Research

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 1, 2011 | No Comments

If you attended last week’s annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, you were one of 10,900 people presenting 2,200 papers and 2,500 slide presentations on everything from the conspicuity of pavement markings to complete streets for blind pedestrians. TRB changed in 1976 from a highway research board to a multimodal focus, and now “TRB […]

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