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Image: Richard Masoner/Flickr What’s a sharrow ? Well, a sharrow is a lane marking that looks like a bicycle with a chevron on top of it.  Sharrows are used to mark streets as places where bicyclists and cars share the road.  The sharrow is painted where that it’s most safe for cyclists to ride in […]

Photo: Illuminate LA Unified by our shared experiences on the street, angered by the now infamous "Hummer Incident" and emboldened by their experiences with the LAPD Police Commission and Inspector General, roughly fifty cyclists pedaled to the monthly Los Angeles City Council meeting in Van Nuys to tell their stories, our stories, about life on […]

Photo of the Ansaldo Breda plant in Pittsburg, CA via  Delta Projects International This Saturday, the Southern California Transit Adovates will host Fabio Ficano of Ansaldo Breda, the rail car company in the middle of the controversy about who will supply rail cars for future the expansion of the Gold Line. After Streetsblog reported on […]

Next Friday, CalPIRG is hosting a major conference about what the upcoming reauthorization of the federal Transportation Trust Fund could mean for Los Angeles, if we want it enough.  New federal language in transportation funding legislation could bring major changes to Los Angeles and the rest of the country.  However, CalPIRG is perfectly able to […]

Panorama shot from the Sepulveda Pass trail head path. via Dan_Wuh/Flickr Support for two major highway projects are highlighting another packed Metro Board agenda. First, tucked away on the consent agenda is a motion to formally oppose AB 113, legislation by Assemblyman Portantino which would require Caltrans to sell state-owned property along the unconstructed areas […]

U.S. Judge Sides with Ports in Clean Truck Lawsuit (Times) Meanwhile, Port Activity Picking Up (LA Business Journal) Man Killed While Getting Mail by Hit and Run Texter (LAist) L.A. Could Learn a Lot About Urban Planning from Tokyo (Times) El Capitan Kicks Miley Impersonator Off Their "Private Property" aka the Sidewalk (Metblogs) Bike Portland […]