Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Road Diet

To KFI’s John & Ken: Where Are Those Streets With “50%” Space For Bikes?

By Joe Linton | Feb 13, 2015 | 22 Comments

This morning, I listened to SBLA editor Damien Newton interviewed yesterday on KFI radio’s John and Ken show . Frankly it made me tense to hear the level of antipathy that John and Ken express toward people who bike. Toward me. Toward my family and our safety. I heard a few misconceptions stated by the […]

LADOT Striping Some, Not All, of Bike Lanes on Repaved Venice Blvd

By Joe Linton | Jan 30, 2015 | 18 Comments

The preliminary striping is down on the resurfaced mid-city stretch of Venice Boulevard that SBLA highlighted last week. The site is east of the existing Venice Blvd bike lanes, in the Los Angeles City neighborhoods of Harvard Heights, Arlington Heights, and Mid-City. The good news is that the L.A. City Transportation Department (LADOT) is extending bike lanes one […]

Eyes on the Street: Venice Boulevard Resurfaced, Bike Lanes Soon?

By Joe Linton | Jan 22, 2015 | 7 Comments

Thanks to friend of the blog and L.A. City Bicycle Advisory Committee Chair Jeff Jacobberger for spotting this and bringing it to the attention of the city of L.A. Transportation Department (LADOT) and SBLA. Venice Boulevard was recently resurfaced between Western Avenue and Arlington Avenue. This portion of Venice Boulevard did not have bike lanes […]

San Diego Sued for Putting in a Bike Lane

By Melanie Curry | Dec 22, 2014 | 28 Comments

A lawsuit filed last week in San Diego [PDF] claims that the city did an inadequate CEQA analysis for a recent road diet and new bike lane on a stretch of Fifth Avenue. The city’s Bicycle Master Plan calls for a bike lane on that section of the street, and lists it as a priority […]

Glendale-Hyperion Bridge Political Contortions Forcing Unsafe Compromise Design

By Joe Linton | Dec 19, 2014 | 47 Comments

Last night, the Citizens Advisory Committee for the design of the new Glendale-Hyperion Bridge met to discuss the city’s latest proposal. L.A.’s historic Glendale-Hyperion Bridge opened in 1927. It connects the Los Angeles communities of Silver Lake and Atwater Village. About ten years ago, city plans to renovate the bridge got underway. In 2013, the city […]

Wilmington’s New Bike Lane Network, and What It Does and Doesn’t Do

By Joe Linton | Sep 11, 2014 | 21 Comments

Where is California’s most concentrated bike lane network? Long Beach? Davis? San Francisco? Santa Barbara? San Luis Obispo? How about Wilmington? Some readers may be wondering: just where is Wilmington? Wilmington is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. It is directly inland from the Port of Los Angeles. San Pedro is west of […]

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