Bikeside LA

Santa Monica has been making some huge strides lately towards supporting cycling as a legitimate mode of transportation. The Arizona bike lane has been extended all the way to Ocean Ave, Broadway between Cloverfield and 26th has been re-striped into three blocks of extra-wide bike lane heaven, also taking into account a local rider’s feedback.  [...]

Come out to the LA Streetsblog Re-Launch party this Wednesday (RSVP on Facebook), from 7 pm – 11:30 pm, in Mar Vista at 11555 National Blvd.  It’s $20 admission to support LA’s finest land use and transportation blog. Damien Newton, founder of LA Streetsblog, thought he would have to shutter his operation when funds dried [...]

Follows are some comments from the wall of the Mayor’s Facebook event for the Bike Summit.  Always remember, for every person who speaks out, there are typically many who don’t. “Thank You for the Invitation, unfortunately I as well will be at work during these hours.” – Hector S. ” I’d like to go but [...]

Bikeside will be hosting a meeting (RSVP on Facebook, Twitter) this Sunday, August 15th, from 1pm till 3pm, to get organized for our Life Before License campaign.  The Life Before License campaign is Bikeside’s campaign to change state law so that hit and run drivers have their license revoked; it is part of Bikeside’s larger [...]

This is a shitty city.I’m sorry for not being able to come up with a more academic way of explaining it.  If you want nice clean historical reasons why Los Angeles is so sub-par for pretty much everyone but those living up in the hills, read a Mike Davis book.  If you live in a [...]

(Editor’s note – this article originally circulated in CityWatch, an email newsletter on City Hall. If you want to understand LA politics, you must read CityWatch! Subscribe here!) Partly in response to his bike collision, the Mayor is holding a Bike Summit. While that might not be your cup of tea, it provides an interesting [...]

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the date and time of his bike summit today – Monday, August 16th from 9am-11am.  The mayor’s staff, renowned for the extraordinary political acrobatics, completed a triple front FAIL in organizing the bike meeting. Failure #1: The meeting takes place during work day, making it impossible for many of the city’s [...]

(Editor’s note – this article originally circulated in CityWatch, an email newsletter on City Hall. If you want to understand LA politics, you must read CityWatch! Subscribe here!) (There’s been some great coverage of both Critical Mass and the Blood In & Hit and Run protests. Check out Alex de Cordoba’s blog – the Engaged [...]

(Editor’s note – this article originally circulated in CityWatch, an email newsletter on City Hall.  If you want to understand LA politics, you must read CityWatch! Subscribe here!) “The drivers that hit us and run are driving in your neighborhoods, past your kid’s school, your mother’s church, and your house” – that was the message [...]

Rick Darge produced this excellent video of the Blood In protest & press conference: