Bikeside LA

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 [...]

The Bike Working Group met for the fifth time this past March 6, 2010 to work on the LA’s Best Bike Plan and was well attended despite the sporadic rain. Thanks to the Hollywood Adventists we had a dry space to present, review and discuss the Best Bike Plan and the Backbone Bikeway Network. Alex [...]

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 [...]

Jeremy Grant, who writes This Is Not A Bike Blog, took the Bike Plan Challenge I issued to write the introduction to LA’s Best Bike Plan, the bike plan authored by cyclists, for cyclists.  I loved this paragraph: The Best Bicycle Plan is a proactive vision that will offer success for the whole community; a [...]

David Pura took my challenge to write the introduction to LA’s Best Bike Plan, the bike plan written for cyclists, by cyclists: Bicyclists can, and will, ride on every city street; California law allows as much. Bicyclists, pedestrians, social vehicles and private vehicles will equally share the privileges and responsibilities of the public realm; these [...]

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 [...]