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Riding Car-Free with LACBC

By Damien Newton | | 4 Comments
The Los Angeles County Bike Coalition’s newest campaign, Car-Free Fridays, launched this morning at 8:00 A.M. at the Hollywood and Western Red Line Station.  After interviews with the press and a short wait for stragglers, City Council President Eric Garcetti and the Bike Coalition led a group of sixty cyclists to city hall to show […]

Good Samaritan Opens Bike Sharing Program

By Damien Newton | | 1 Comment
From this week’s Los Angeles County Bike Coalition newsletter comes news that one major employer in Los Angeles is bringing bike sharing for their employees. Bike Sharing At Good Sam Good Samaritan Hospital in Downtown Los Angeles has launched a bike-sharing program that allows its approximately 1,500 employees to borrow bicycles for traveling around the […]

Bike Day Saturday: LACBC’s Paleta Bicicleta

By Damien Newton | | No Comments
(It’s certainly no surprise to anyone that reads this blog, or that lives in Southern California, that this area is hardly known as a haven for bicyclists.  But, that doesn’t stop creative and dedicated cyclists from devising their own ways to make Los Angeles a bike town of our own.  This week we’ll profile four […]

Complete Streets Legislation Clears Legisalture

By Damien Newton | | 5 Comments
A Complete Street in Portland Last week, the state legislature finally passed AB 1358, The Complete Streets Act.  This legislation would require that all modes of transportation be given equal consideration when Caltrans or any other government body in California spends funds on a road project. Other states that have passed similar legislation include Oregon, […]
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