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“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 [...]

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

Last year when Jesus Castillo was killed LA Critical Mass went to the site of his death, joined together around his ghost bike, and held a die-in to honor him, and call attention to the driver’s crime.
A little over a year later we are still plagued by hit and runs.  I humbly suggest that those [...]

Until Sara or I can write a proper post, here are some photos from the Blood In protest, courtesy Gary Kavanagh and “Barleye”:

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On Tuesday, July 27th, and Friday, July 30th, cyclists will gather at the Beverly Hills Courthouse to protest the tepid sentence handed down by Judge Elden S. Fox for Celine Mahdavi.  Mahdavi hit cyclist Louis Deliz and left him to die in the street on December 1st, [...]

“I turned left on to a one way street (the correct way) and a cop started yelling at me while I was catching up to the ride. He drove over, started yelling, didn’t allow me to say anything really and then handcuffed me.” – Chris
That’s what you get for riding bikes Chris.
“When I got to [...]

LACBC recently crowed that the 10% of Measure R (local return) funds set aside for cyclists & pedestrians became available.  As LACBC puts it, the “collaborative effort between LACBC, LA Streetsblog (Damien Newton), and the Green LA Coalition”
led to the liberation of $3.27 million in funds for the next fiscal year for cycling and [...]

“She shouldn’t drive unless she has a valid driver’s license.”  That was Judge Elden Fox’s message today to Celine Mahdavi, the women who clobbered Louis Deliz into 49 days of hospitalization.
Lindsay Lohan will likely serve 14 days of the 90 day sentence in County jail she began today.  She violated the terms of her probation [...]

Tonight, while executives and lawyers and lobbyists and assistants wined and dined and worked the room, while producers and directors and agents and actors made war and contracts with blackberries and iPhones, while all of them struggled mightily to meet in the middle, two men from two worlds crossed the gap to shake hands and [...]

It’s a given that understanding a situation improves your ability to respond to it.  That’s the value of edumucation!  That’s why understanding the structure of the City of LA is key to understanding how activists can motivate change, and improve the environment for cyclists.  It follows that misunderstanding can lead to catastrophic failure, and waste [...]