Bikeside LA

This Saturday, March 6th, we’ll finalize the Backbone Bikeway Network streets, and move on to discussing methods for making those streets ultra safe and ultra convenient for cyclists.  From 2pm till 5pm the fifth Bike Working Group will convene at the Hollywood Adventist Church (around the back) at 1711 N Van Ness Blvd.
Everyone is welcome, [...]

“The car behind me was trying to make the light and accelerated, hitting me and running over my bike as I flew through the air.” – Brandon Chau. To stop LA’s epidemic of hit and runs, Bikeside visited Beverly Hills City Council to confront “the safest city in America.”

Welcome to Bikeside! Bikeside is a new organization for bike activism. Our mission, simply, is to make LA safe for cyclists. We’re going to do that with the same brand of hard hitting, assertive and insightful activism you’re used to getting from the Bike Writers Collective.

If you’re dialed into bike blogs, you’ve probably read either Enci Box’s account or Stephen Box’s account of a recent meeting between LAPD and a swath of bike orgs.  For a review of the content of the meeting, I suggest either or both of their pieces.  I just thought I’d share my impression of the [...]

Waaaay back on December 9th, Councilman (CD11) Bill Rosendahl asked 12 tough questions of city staff – Michelle Mowery, Jordann Turner, and Jane Blumenfeld (who is E-RIPping) – about the proposed LA Bike Plan.  I think the responses to the these questions are telling, so I clipped out the section and you can listen to [...]

Bill Rosendahl’s motion to ask the City Attorney to draft a anti-harassment ordinance will be heard in Public Safety Committee on Monday.  From Rosendahl’s Transportation deputy, Paul Backstrom:
Please be advised that the anti-harassment ordinance will be heard in Public Safety committee this coming Monday, January 11 at 9:30 AM (item #4 on the agenda) in [...]

Starting at 4pm pst on Friday December 18th, theStream.tv will be hosting a 24 hour streaming cycling themed fundraiser supporting the Pablove Foundation, which seeks to improve the lives of children with cancer.  The Stream Team will be taking turns riding a stationary bike for the 24 hours in addition to featuring live music, interactive [...]

Michelle Mowery said that LA did not get the same robust Bike Plan process as Portland in part because Portland is “very white” and LA is “a very diverse, disjointed city.”  Mowery, LA DOT’s Bicycle Coordinator, made her assertion Wednesday in LA City Council Transportation Committee.  Here’s the transcript with Councilman Bill Rosendahl’s question and [...]

Saturday we’re having Bike Working Group III, for the die hard bike wonks and the lonely souls who didn’t leave town (RSVP on Facebook.)  We’ll be continuing work on LA’s Best Bike Plan, the bike plan created for cyclists, by cyclists.  We’ll start work at 1pm, at the Hollywood Adventist Church (1711 N. Van Ness [...]

Late post y’all, but I highly recommend calling into to today’s Airtalk: Pavement Wars 2.  It’s going to be all about the tension between cyclists and motorists.  It starts at 10:20am, and runs to 11am.  Ted Rogers, author of BikingInLA, will be on representing cyclists, and Michelle Mowery of LADOT will be on representing motorists.