Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Sharrows

20 Miles of Sharrows in One Weekend…More Facts and Figures from LADOT

By Damien Newton | Oct 4, 2011 | 19 Comments

Last weekend, in an impressive display of what LADOT can do on city streets when it puts its mind to it, 4 teams of LADOT employees spread out throughout the city and placed 803 Sharrows over 20.61 miles of city streets. LADOT caused some controversy when it announced it would include these Sharrows as part […]

Sharrows Appear on Motor Avenue

By Damien Newton | Oct 3, 2011 | 10 Comments

When Jonathan Weiss emailed me two weeks ago announcing that Sharrows placeholders appeared on Motor Avenue, I didn’t think too much of it. After all, stencils marking a place for bike racks have been on the ground next to my Big Blue Bus stop for almost five months. However, apparently LADOT contractors were working overtime […]

Eyes on the Street: More Sharrows Coming to the Westside

By Damien Newton | Sep 23, 2011 | 5 Comments

Earlier this week, Joe Linton noticed that marking were appearing on mid-town streets to mark the spot where Sharrows would be placed. Linton is one of the harshest critics of the city’s attempts to jump off the Bike Plan to add Sharrows to city streets to reach the Mayor’s stated promise of 40 miles of […]

The Embedded Activist

By Damien Newton | Sep 8, 2011 | 2 Comments

There’s always a risk when an advocate is hired by a government agency. Will the advocate “go native” and be an ineffective agent of change? Will the advocate ever be able to shake his reputation of being “just” an advocate? When the City of Glendale and the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition submitted a joint […]

LADOT Responds: 20 Miles of Sharrows Part of Mayor’s Infrastructure Commitment

By Damien Newton | Sep 1, 2011 | 6 Comments

Yesterday, we featured a headline by our Joe Linton that pretty harshly criticized an LADOT Bike Blog posting from Monday about the LADOT’s committment to increasing the number of Sharrows on L.A.’s streets. We summarized Linton’s post into a couple of questions and sent them on to the LADOT to get some clarification. After all, the […]

In NELA, D.I.Y. Sharrows Remain, But L.A. Is Moving On

By Damien Newton | Dec 9, 2010 | 4 Comments

Yesterday, Carter Rubin and I were in Northeast L.A. on our way to a meeting at Occidental College and we had a chance to stop in and visit with Josef Bray-Ali st the Flying Pigeon Bike Shop (see ad on the right). I commented that the “D.I.Y. Sharrows” that appeared along some local streets connecting […]

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