Bikeside LA

In less than a week the public hearings for the 2010 Los Angeles bike plan will be finished.  The bad news?  One of them is already over.  The good news?  There are four left!  This is your opportunity to ask the people responsible for choosing the streets in the bike plan why your desired streets [...]

The public hearings during which the draft 2010 Los Angeles Bicycle Plan will be discussed are almost here!  The series of four hearings and one webinar begins on Saturday September 25 in Hollywood and concludes on October 2 in Van Nuys (specific dates, times, and locations are listed at the end of this post).  Each [...]

The city of Malibu is having a PR problem with cyclists.  A facebook page, “Share the Road, Share the Tickets”, created by one of Malibu’s Public Safety Commissioners, Susan Tellem, resulted in a backlash from cyclists throughout Los Angeles County who felt they were being unfairly targeted.  After all, none of the 96 collisions and [...]

(Editor’s note: this post by rida and Blood-In organizer [one of many] Rach Stevenson.  Hopefully she will write for Bikeside again!) At the recent Los Angeles Bike Summit Mayor Villaraigosa unexpectedly announced that he would push for state-level legislation that would make it mandatory for all cyclists in California, regardless of age, to wear a [...]