Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bicycling

Cyclists Scoop LADOT on New Hoover Street Bike Lanes

By Damien Newton | Apr 13, 2010 | 18 Comments

New Hoover Street, two automo lanes and two bike lanes. Photo: Joe Linton/Eco Village Over the weekend, the L.A. Eco-Village blog wrote about new bike lanes appearing over a 1.6 mile stretch of Hoover Street in South L.A. between 98th and 120th street. A day later, the LADOT’s Bike Blog picked up its own story […]

Transportation Committee Agenda: Bike Corralls, Bus Rapid Transit, and Measure R

By Damien Newton | Apr 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

This week’s Transportation Committee hearing doesn’t have all of the agenda items that we hoped to see, but does have an interesting one concerning use of Measure R funds to widen a road in the San Fernando Valley. Along with a report on the Wilshire Bus-Only program and one directing LADOT and City Planning to […]

Advocacy and Endorsements, the Next Step for Bike Advocacy?

By Damien Newton | Apr 8, 2010 | 9 Comments

Since L.A. Streetsblog started publishing twenty-six months ago, we’ve seen a boom in bike advocacy. Joining the LACBC; C.I.C.L.E. began doing more advocacy work, the Bike Writer’s Collective began pushing the Cyclists Bill of Rights to Neighborhood Councils and the City Council, the Bike Working Group decided to write their own Bike Plan, and more […]

Bicycling Magazine Ranks Top Fifty Bike Cities: Whither Southern California

By Damien Newton | Apr 7, 2010 | 8 Comments

A couple of striped bike lanes sounds pretty good to me. Last month, when Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was in town for the Street Summit, we were talking about the great work going on in Long Beach. He commented that it would make a great Streetfilm showing that there can be great work going on in […]

Long Beach Signs On To Some Good Ideas

By Drew Reed | Apr 6, 2010 | 3 Comments

Photo: Drew Reed/LA Loyalist A month ago, I had a few ideas about how Long Beach could go about improving its budding network of numbered bikeways. As it turned out, a few of the suggestions I made are slowly beginning to appear on the street lights and signposts of Long Beach. Is this a happy […]

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Streetfilms: The Capital’s Colossal Contraflow Cycle Track

By Elizabeth Press | Mar 31, 2010 | No Comments

While we were down in Washington, DC for the National Bike Summit, Streetfilms got the chance to check out some of the innovative bike infrastructure. Tops on our list: the city’s first protected, contraflow lane for bicyclists. The district DOT has redesigned 15th Street NW between U Street and Massachusetts Avenue to accommodate two-way bike […]

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