Bikeside LA

If you can’t make the Bike Working Group today, here are twelve principles we’ll be presenting.  These principles were distilled out of the 8 solid pages of ideas that came out of the first Bike Working Group.  Bikeside and the Bike Writers Collective will be presenting these 12 principles as the proposed backbone of LA’s [...]

(by Mihai Peteu)
The MTA rapid on Wilshire is one of the most heavily used bus routes in the city of Los Angeles. After staring at the 720 Timetable + Route(PDF) dozens of times, it became pretty clear that there’s no reason why the bikeways in the city can’t be modeled after where I, a [...]

Thanks to Ken Alpern, I was able to attend the Council District 11 (Bill Rosendahl) Transportation Advisory Committee.  We discussed the draft LA Bike Plan, and we passed two motions, unanimously (with 1 abstention each.)
The 1st Motion:
The first, was authored by the committee collectively, with Jay Handel (West LA NC) at the lead:
Because the LADOT [...]

(via AudunV on Flickr)
 Tuesday afternoon, last week.
I’m cruising home from the ear/nose/throat specialist, fighting the wind on Venice Blvd.  If you know me in real life, well you might wonder if I was getting checked for eligibility for ear reduction surgery.  No dice – Kaiser told me my radar dishes are a preexisting medical condition [...]

If you can do one thing for cycling this week, come to the 2nd meeting of the Bike Working Group, put on by Bikeside and the Bike Writers Collective, this Saturday afternoon.  We’ll meet Saturday, from 1pm till 4pm in downtown Los Angeles at The Exchange, 114 W. 5th St (Facebook event.)
If you can do [...]

Broadway should be sacred pavement for cyclists.  Bike lanes, ideally, should serve as safe cross-town pathways for cyclists, taking you from one borough to another.  Not just to the grocery store and back.  They should have buttery smooth pavement since bikes don’t do nearly as much damage to the road surface.
Unfortunately, in Bronze-Award Bike Friendly [...]

A few weeks back I wrote about my disdain for vigilante action proposals (1, 2) for dealing with bike thieves.  “MS”, who had just had his bike stolen, disagreed in the comments.  Since then, he found his bike on Craigslist, and worked with LAPD to set up a sting operation:
UPDATE: I found my stolen bike [...]

The demand for an extension of the deadline for public input (November 6th) on the LA Bike Plan process continues to gather momentum.  The Mar Vista Community Council (MVCC) passed a motion requesting an extension of the deadline, and Silver Lake Neighborhood Council is hot on their heels.  However, so far Transportation Chairman Bill Rosendahl [...]

Dammit!  As if the LA Bike Master Plan process wasn’t annoying enough, they switched semantics on me.  Stephen Box informed me on the telephone that the proper terminology is now LA Bike Plan.  Are you %$%^ing kidding me?  So, now I’ll start using LA Bike Plan as the terminology, and LABP for short.
Aarrgh!  Confusing!

The LA Bike Working Group event to review the Bike Plan has had to change time and venue.  The new location and time is Saturday, 2pm, at the Hollywood Adventist Church, 1711 N. Van Ness Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028.  We’ll be in the Fellowship Hall on the NW side of the parking lot.