Bikeside LA

Bikesiders! The final results from Bikeside’s CA-36 Congressional Candidate Survey are in!  In total, we got nine of the sixteen candidates to respond, including the major frontrunners Debra Bowen, Janice Hahn, Marcy Winograd and Mike Gin.  That’s not bad for a scrappy bike org!  Now the Bikeside Steering Committee is deliberating on who to endorse, but [...]

Bikeside got happy news via the internet in the last two days.  First, Don Ward, who famously won the battle for the Wilbur Ave road diet, wrote about Bikeside’s Life Before License campaign, and his organization, Safe Streets Northridge, gave it’s endorsement.  Second, Flying Pigeon announced it’s financial sponsorship of Bikeside.  Bikeside joins CicLAvia and [...]

(this post from a new blogger for Bikeside, the Subjective Bureaucrat.  The Subjective Bureaucrat chooses to remain nameless, but you can bet he or she knows what he or she is talking about ; ]   I’m happy to have him or her on board!  -AT) In the world of planning, or on a larger scale [...]

Bikesiders! We’re excited to report back with some preliminary results from Bikeside’s Biking and Walking Survey for CA-36 Congressional Candidates. The survey was emailed to the 16 registered candidates last week and Dr. Loraine Goodwin was the first to submit a completed survey! Thank you, Dr. Goodwin! As of today, Bikeside has received completed surveys [...]

(This post from a newcomer to Bikeside – ‘Bikeside Chris’ – in collaboration with me, Alex T.  Welcome Chris to the blogosphere with a comment below! – AT) Bikeside invites candidates of the May 17, 2011 Special Election for the 36th Congressional District seat to take our online survey on federal bicycle policies.  We’re going [...]

This past Saturday, the city of Long Beach took a ground breaking step towards making their downtown area safer for cyclists. While not perfect, their protected bike lane design is considerably safer than most options seen in Southern California thus far.

Two months ago, the Bike Plan Implementation Team met at City Hall and walked away with an informal top ten list of cycling infrastructure projects.  Since then, Planning and DOT have refused to put their time and energy toward any proposals that are not on the list.  When advocates complain to the authorities, they are [...]

Evolution calls for better bike lanes Call them what you want: Cycle Tracks, Protected Bike Lanes, Bike Paths. Bottom line is, most people won’t start riding until you take cars out of the equation. Why? Because even well-intentioned people do stupid or careless sh**, and when people do stupid or careless sh** while in a [...]

Bikeside went to the LA County draft Bicycle Master Plan meeting in Marina del Rey last night.  The draft plan covers unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County and other seemingly random patches of land, like the Westside VA campus (we’ll get back to that one later). The existing LA County Bicycle Master Plan was adopted [...]

Ciclovia(s) CicLAvia was even more amazing than last year, with folks coming from all over to enjoy the freedom of exploring the city car-free.  Seems like even Sandy Banks of the LA Times had a blast.  Restaurants could barely keep up with demand, that’s about as busy as I’ve ever seen MacArthur park and Little [...]