Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

Looking into Los Angeles’ 2010 Draft Bike Plan

By Joe Linton | Jul 22, 2010 | 24 Comments

The new draft 2010 City of Los Angeles Bike Plan was released on Friday June 18th 2010. The draft is available online at labikeplan.org. That website is also where interested parties can sign-up for bike plan webinars tonight at 6pm and 7:30pm. At tonight’s webinars, the city will explain the already-released 2010 draft and will release a new piece: its 5-year implementation […]

Villaraigosa on HuffPo: I Like to Bike in Los Angeles

By Damien Newton | Jul 19, 2010 | 9 Comments

Bicycle advocate and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took to the Internet to talk bike policy in the aftermath of this weekend’s crash. While there’s nothing groundbreaking in his essay; it’s nice to see our city’s political leader take a stand for bicyclists. If anyone thinks advocates are tilting at windmills when it comes to […]

Dangerous Taxi Driver Causes Bike Crash, Broken Arm for Villaraigosa

By Damien Newton | Jul 18, 2010 | 18 Comments

Image: Villaraigosa/Flickr Well, that didn’t take long. On Friday, Metblogs’ Will Campbell noticed a tweet from Mayor Villaraigosa about how much he enjoyed riding his bicycle as part of the Summer Night Lights program. Campbell spent the time to page through the Mayor’s flickr feed and even found a picture of Villaraigosa laughing it up […]

LAPD Outlines How to Report a Bike Crash or Theft

By Damien Newton | Jul 15, 2010 | 10 Comments

It’s a story we’ve heard too often. A cyclist is riding legally down the street, when out of nowhere, blam! For some reason, a car slams into the bicycle for reasons unknown. The car speeds off (or the driver waits, it doesn’t matter), and the bloody cyclist rises to his feet, calls 911, and for […]

Facebook Face Off: Malibu’s Anti-Bike Crusade Runs Into Opposition

By Damien Newton | Jul 9, 2010 | 80 Comments

A cyclist blocking traffic in Malibu on the PCH. Photo:JGL Songs/Flickr Generally, I try to avoid writing about Facebook "groups" that bag cyclists, pedestrians or transit riders and projects because they’re not really representative of anything other than an angry person with a keyboard. However, that was before Biking In L.A. pointed us towards a […]

We Rode As One

By Damien Newton | Jun 27, 2010 | No Comments

By now you’ve probably heard the news about last Friday’s Los Angeles Critical Mass, now with cops!, and have read touching accounts of cyclist’ new B.F.F.’s. If you haven’t, you can get a feel for how the ride went by watching the video above, and reading Kumbaya, posted here on Saturday and Undiscovered Country posted […]

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