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Nine Dead in DC Metro Crash (NYT, Times, News) Read Oberstar’s Transportation Bill Yourself (DC Streetsblog) City Staff Confused at Caltrans’ Conference on Pedestrian Planning (City Watch) Caltrans’ State Director Take’s Leahy’s Old Job at OCTA (LA Now, Sac Bee) LA Is Full of Dumb Bike Lanes, Thank Goodness for the Bike Plan (LA Examiner) […]

Jassy in his more G.Q. days. Photo via: Finest RNB Late last year, pianist John Osnes was crossing the street in Hollywood when, according to witnesses, an SUV pulled partway into the intersection.  Osnes placed his hands on the vehicle and shouted at the driver to obey the law.  At that point, a backup singer […]

Just a reminder: this is the copy of Bicycling Magazine you’re looking for. (Editor’s note: Dan Koeppel is the writer of the now famous "The Illegal But Highly Effective D.I.Y. Bike Lane" article that appears in the July issue of Bicycling Magazine.  You can continue to read his writing at his blog at www.bananabook.org.  The […]

Photo of Riverside via Miizzard/Flickr. In what could seem a companion piece to either this morning’s Streetsblog.net post or last week’s interview with Michael Woo, the California Planning & Development Report outlines some of the excuses local planners are using to attack S.B. 375, the legislation that requires land-use patterns be used to fight sprawl.  […]

Last year’s Bike to Work Day stop in West Hollywood. Streetsbloggers, Unless this is your first day on Streetsblog, you probably realize that tomorrow is Bike to Work Day in L.A. County and this week has been pretty heavy on bike stories.  However, tomorrow is the "big day" and I can’t cover it all myself, […]

For anyone planning to pedal to City Hall for tomorrow’s "All-Bike" city council meeting, I just received email notice that it has been canceled.  I’ll have more on this later, but wanted to make sure nobody made plans this evening on old news.