Bikeside LA

Today’s Caltrans Bicycle Advisory Committee kicked off with a brown-bag session of Bikeside presentations of Hit & Run incidents by Sara Bond, the LA Bike Map by Alex Thompson and the Greensters by Enci Box.
This two hour session attracted many folks from Caltrans, SCAG (Southern California Association of Governments), California Highway Patrol, LAPD, Burbank PD [...]

[UPDATE: Sharon McNary apologized to Enci in the comments over at IlluminateLA]
There’s good publicity and there’s bad publicity.  For cycling in LA, it used to be that any publicity was good publicity, because we were so desperate for attention.  I think however, we’ve reached a point where we would benefit from a little less bad [...]

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 [...]