Bikeside LA

(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 [...]

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 [...]

(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 [...]

For immediate release.  For information & interviews contact alexcthompson@gmail.com. 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On Friday Ted Rogers of Biking In LA attacked John Fisher, Assistant General Manager of Operations of LADOT, claiming that Fisher is ultimately responsible for Bikeways failures.  In “Who’s the man behind the curtain of L.A. bicycling?” Rogers, a board member for the LACBC, exonerates Michelle Mowery by arguing that she is not powerful enough to [...]

Masters of Journalism student Kim Nowacki put together this great piece on Bikeside over at Neon Tommy, the popular city blog produced by the collective efforts of USC Annenberg journalism students.  Nowacki’s, an outsider to Bikeside, and new to Los Angeles, crafted a piece that is the best description to date of what Bikeside is [...]