Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bike Master Plan

Early Wednesday Morning, Transportation Committee Has Full Bike Agenda

By Damien Newton | Jun 12, 2009 | 7 Comments

City Council Meeting packed with Cyclists on May Day, 2009. Photo: Dr. Alex Thompson The City Council Transportation Committee has re-scheduled the "bike themed" meeting that was postponed from mid-May for next Wednesday, June 17, at 8:00 A.M. in room 1050. There is a clear tier to the agenda. The "big ticket" items include a […]

More on the Bike Plan: Strength and Weaknesses

By Joe Linton | Jun 4, 2009 | 14 Comments

(As you may have noticed, Streetsblog is running a series gathering different people’s opinions on the Bike Master Plan. You can read statements by a group of different bike activists from Monday, Dan Koepel on Tuesday, Kent Strumpell in the comments section yesterday and now LACBC Founder and Green L.A. Transportation Working Group Chair Joe […]

LADOT Claims to Be Out of the Loop on Bike Master Plan

By Damien Newton | Jun 3, 2009 | 17 Comments

What’s going on with the Bike Master Plan? That question has been on the minds of cyclists ever since public outreach meetings for the plan were announced in January of 2008. The release last week of a series of low-resolution maps by the Department of City Planning actually made the confusion and frustration felt by […]

Anger and Optimism Expressed Over BMP Maps

By Damien Newton | Jun 1, 2009 | 16 Comments

Last Friday, the city released the first piece of its Bike Master Plan when it posted the draft area maps that will make up the framework of the engineering portion of the Plan. "Word on the street" is that the City's Planning Department , the body that is in charge of the BMP despite the widely held belief that it's the LADOT Bikeways Division, didn't want to release the plan piecemeal. If the reaction from advocates and bloggers is any indication of the general feelings towards the plan, then the instinct to withhold wasn't a bad one.

City Starts to Release Bike Plan

By Damien Newton | May 29, 2009 | 13 Comments

View the maps that are the framework for the BMP at http://www.labikeplan.org/bikeway_maps/ Yesterday afternoon, the City of Los Angeles began the slow roll out of the Bike Master Plan by emailing members of Neighborhood Councils a letter announcing that the maps that will be the framework of the engineering portion of the BMP are available […]

Whither the Bike Master Plan?

By Damien Newton | May 13, 2009 | 10 Comments

Photo from Bike Master Plan outreach meeting courtesy Franz Ellers, 2/2008 You may have noticed that recently I’ve been finding a way to work the oft-delayed Bike Master Plan into just about every post about bicycles. This being Bike to Work Week, there have been plenty of chances. Yesterday I had a chance to visit […]

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