Bikeside LA

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 [...]

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 [...]

Apparently road rage felon Christopher Thompson has accumulated a stack of letters attesting to his good character, seeking a lenient sentence for his violence in Mandeville Canyon. The prosecutor, District Attorney Mary Stone, is seeking letters giving the counterpoint to that – attesting to the seriousness of his crimes and the personal effect such [...]

My peeps have a saying: STILL GOT IT.  We say it when impressive HULK like action makes it clear that we still got it.  Still got that mojo that makes one an outstanding person.
The League of American Bicyclists still don’t get it, and they STILL DON’T GOT IT.  The League’s reputation was completely tarnished when [...]

(originally printed on City Watch on Monday.  Sign up for City Watch here.)
Bill Rosendahl, LA City Council Transportation Committee Chair, can be a great champion of any cause, but lately he is missed by cyclists and transportation advocates.  And so, if I may begin this public comment with my “ask”, I ask Bill to re-engage [...]

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.

(by Mihai Peteu)
As a Santa Monica resident that relies on his bike for everything from work commuting, to running errands, to recreation, our city’s bike friendly image is starting to wear thin. The utter disrespect shown towards the few “safe” bikeways provided to us around town is simply despicable.  As previously reported, Santa Monica is [...]

Yo!  If you want to talk bikes, Bike Plans, and the Evil Dr. Thompson, I’ll be at Bikerowave (12255 Venice Bl) on Thursday, from 6:30pm to 10:00 pm.  Come pick my brain, tell me why I’m wrong, rap on LA’s Best Bike Plan, and talk bikes with the peeps.  I’ll be the one with the [...]

If you can’t make the Bike Working Group today, here are twelve principles we’ll be presenting.  These principles were distilled out of the 8 solid pages of ideas that came out of the first Bike Working Group.  Bikeside and the Bike Writers Collective will be presenting these 12 principles as the proposed backbone of LA’s [...]

(by Mihai Peteu)
The MTA rapid on Wilshire is one of the most heavily used bus routes in the city of Los Angeles. After staring at the 720 Timetable + Route(PDF) dozens of times, it became pretty clear that there’s no reason why the bikeways in the city can’t be modeled after where I, a [...]