Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bike Master Plan

Less Anger, More Posterboard at 2009 Bike Plan Meeting

By Damien Newton | Oct 29, 2009 | 3 Comments

There was no power point presentation. Instead LADOT, City Planning and Alta Planning just made mini-presentations in front of a series of poster board. The balloons were not related to the presentation. For more images, visit the Streetsblog Flickr page. The first thing I noticed when I arrived at last night’s Bike Plan meeting for […]

Gov. 2.0? Activists Mimic Bike Plan Site

By Damien Newton | Oct 27, 2009 | 6 Comments

Which one is which? Images: labikeplan.org and labikeplan.com The other day, I noticed that some of the stories reviewing the Draft Bike Plan on Streetsblog were receiving incoming links from what I thought was the city’s Bike Plan Website. Given the strong critiques of the plan and the city, I was surprised that the City […]

Streets Notes for the Upcoming Bike Plan Meetings

By Damien Newton | Oct 20, 2009 | 5 Comments

I’ll be going to the Westside Meeting. If anyone wants to write about the other ones, let me know. Starting on Thursday, the City of Los Angeles will hold the first of five "official" public meetings on the Draft Bike Plan that was released for public viewing after some draft maps were released earlier this […]

Neighborhood Focused Bicycle Plans

By Siel Ju | Oct 15, 2009 | 6 Comments

Photo: Pocket Monster D/Flickr Thanks to hard-working bicycle activists like Joe Linton and Stephen Box who’ve read through the L.A. draft Bike Plan, Angelenos who care about bikes can get the skinny on the 212-page draft without wading through the typo and error-riddled document themselves. That said, I’d love it if this draft were not […]

L.A.’s Draft Bikeway Plan: Non-Committal, Sloppy and Perhaps Illegal

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2009 | 17 Comments

Shouldn’t this map have street names? Oh… now it does! All Image via labikeplan.org In September 2009, the city of Los Angeles released its draft Bicycle Master Plan update. This followed the May 2009 release of slightly different facility map portions of the plan. The public is invited to four meetings later this month to […]

Original Draft Maps Disappear from Bike Plan Website, But You Can Still View Them on Streetsblog

By Damien Newton | Oct 8, 2009 | 5 Comments

The original Downtown and Westside Bike Plan Map. Last night, during an email conversation between myself, Stephen Box, Dr. Alex Thompson, Ted Rogers and Joe Linton; we were discussing the updated Draft Bike Plan now available on the official Bike Plan website. Linton commented that the original draft maps, the ones that caused such large […]

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