LABP: Writing Challenge – write the introduction to the bike plan! (10/100)

Enter the bike plan writing challenge!  We challenge anyone and everyone to write an introduction to LA’s Best Bike Plan, which begins with the sentence “Every street is a street that cyclists will ride.”  500 words or less!  Submit your composition to alexcthompson@gmail.com. I’ll post the submissions in batches as I receive them, and I’ll write my own submission around Thursday.

What’s this all about?  Well, LA’s proposed bike plan isn’t all that great.  In fact, it’s so bad, it’s a step backward!  So instead of rejecting the new one and keeping the old one, Bikeside and the Bike Writers Collective are writing their own plan!  We’re calling it LA’s Best Bike Plan.

At Bike Working Group II the consensus was that the plan should begin with the assumption that “every street is a street cyclists will ride.”  This language comes from the Long Beach Bike Plan, in which the first policy, Policy 1.1, is “Consider every street in Long Beach as a street that bicyclists will use.”  We liked this principle so much, we chose it as one of our top three design criteria, and decided that LA’s Best Bike Plan should begin with that sentence.

Get writing!

(Photo by Olivia Kate Jaffe)