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If you watch the following video you’ll see an all too familiar situation to cyclists – petulant police officers detaining a cyclist in a Long Beach as, essentially, retaliation for him trying to clarify the vehicle code: This time it’s Long Beach Police Department, a little outside Bikeside’s typical territory, but it’s so egregious that [...]

When a father and son are struck and left for dead, it’s time to do something about hit and run.  When a judge sentences a hit and run convict to 90 days community service for nearly destroying someone’s life, it’s time to do something about hit and run.  When 32% of all collisions are hit [...]

CicLAvia was great.  Here’s my write up, in photos (full set on Facebook and Bikeside):

As if the problem with hit and run wasn’t bad enough, the LA Times reports that LAPD officer William J. Skett was convicted of felony hit and run: A Los Angeles police officer was convicted Thursday of leaving the scene of an accident and causing great bodily injury in a June 2008 hit-and-run in which [...]

CicLAvia is Sunday.  The organizers of the event capitalized on a setback (“if you push a negative hard enough it becomes a positive” paraphrase of Saul Alinsky) and rescheduled the event for the numerically alliterative date of 10/10/10.  Apart from the obvious conclusion that they will be forced to organize events for 11/11/11, 12/12/12, 20/20/2020 [...]

Bike activists have been hearing murmurings of a bike ban on USC campus for a while now.  This morning we learned through various channels that indeed, Associate Senior Vice President for Career and Protective Services Dr. Charles E Lane banned bikes in some areas of USC. A lot of people learned this from LADOT, in [...]

Life Before License will have it’s 3rd organizing meeting this Sunday afternoon – details below.  We’re almost ready to roll out this campaign, so this is the best time to get in on what’s destined to be a great campaign to change state law.  If you’d like to participate, but can’t make the meetings – [...]

I thought I’d give you a run down of some of what I was up to, and what others were up to last week, vlog style, 10 minutes! I’ve never done a vlog (video blog) before, so I welcome your input.  There’s so many things in a week of bike work that I would love [...]

Life Before License is kicking off by surveying you about your opinions on hit and run laws, and driving privileges.  Please take the survey, and please share this link widely: http://bit.ly/LB4Lsurv Share it on your twitter account, share it on Facebook, and ask your friends, family, and community to take the survey.  This survey will [...]

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 [...]