Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bike Master Plan

Friday News Dump: City Schedules Bike Plan Meetings, Westside Subway Won’t Reduce Car Congestion

By Damien Newton | Sep 7, 2010 | 10 Comments

Traditionally, the Friday before a holiday weekend is considered the time to release news that you don’t want to get traction in the public. Sure, the story could get picked up, but there’s less people watching the news that night or reading the newspaper the next morning than any other time. Both the City and […]

Looking into Los Angeles Draft Bike Plan Implementation Strategy

By Joe Linton | Aug 10, 2010 | 18 Comments

The city of Los Angeles is in the process of releasing the components of its 2010 draft Bicycle Plan, available at the city’s website. The plan’s chapters and most of its maps were released in early June 2010. On Thursday July 22nd, the city released its "Five Year Implementation Strategy." Still remaining unreleased is the actual […]

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 […]

Also Coming Later Today: L.A.’s Bike Plan

By Damien Newton | Jun 18, 2010 | 19 Comments

Excerpt from the 2009 Draft Bike Plan Via the LADOT Bike Blog comes the news cyclists and community activists have been waiting for: The Department of City Planning and LADOT will finally be releasing the final draft of the Bike Plan, a mere half a year behind schedule. Sources at LADOT have told me to […]

News from the Summit: Dude, Where’s My Bike Plan?

By Damien Newton | Mar 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

Bike Advisory Committee Chair Glenn Bailey discusses the most recent update to the Bike Plan The StreetSummit workshop update on the Draft Bike Plan was very much a good news and bad news sort of event. On one hand, the newest Draft of the plan looks better than the one released last summer. On the […]

LACBC Bike Counts: Strong Relationship Between Infrastructure and Riders on the Road

By Damien Newton | Mar 16, 2010 | 8 Comments

Each purple dot is a location surveyed by the LACBC last fall. The more purple, the more cyclists. Oftentimes, cyclists find themselves arguing with non-cyclists about many different facets of life riding the streets of Los Angeles. Cyclists ride the wrong way, spending money on bike lanes are a waste of money, cycling is just […]

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