Bikeside LA

My main gripe with the latest release of Los Angeles’ 2010 Bicycle Plan is that it uses the word “bicycle” and it refers to “bicyclists.” Nerdy!  Cycling cyclists, bikers biking and riders riding are so much more sexy than bicyclists bicycling . . . the plan sets back bikers’ sexual prospects decades. On the other [...]

The cycling community is unified on the draft bike plan – send it back, and we must be at the table for the next round.  The universal sentiment is: this draft has big problems that we ought to fix – give us our opportunity to fix it. This morning LACBC blogged that the draft needs [...]

Nearly three years ago the newly formed Bike Writers Collective gathered in West LA to hear what Alta Planning and LADOT had to say about making Los Angeles bike friendly.  What we heard was “there’s no time for questions” and “there’s no room for bicyclists.”  That was the beginning of the bike plan update process, [...]

LA already has a Backbone . . . from 1977.  City Planner Claire Bowin discovered and scanned this map from the 1977 LA Bike Masterplan.  It’s a map of the planned bikeways from that plan, and it plans for two systems – a Backbone system and a broader (but one assumes, lower priority) Citywide system.  [...]