Bikeside LA

Almost 6 months after the passage of LA’s 2010 Bike Plan (passed in 2011), City Planning will report to City Council on progress thus far.  Specifically, tomorrow, they will report to the Transportation Committee (and for some reason, DOT Bikeways will not report.) What Council will hear will be a lot of rah rah cheerleading [...]

Bike activists have been hearing murmurings of a bike ban on USC campus for a while now.  This morning we learned through various channels that indeed, Associate Senior Vice President for Career and Protective Services Dr. Charles E Lane banned bikes in some areas of USC. A lot of people learned this from LADOT, in [...]

Already the LADOT Bike Blog has left it’s mark on the bike community.  When Damien Newton, LA Streetsblog editor and author, included it in the blog roll for LA Streetsblog, I called foul.  Damien, to his credit, reexamined his inclusion of the blog in the blog roll, and transferred it to his government links section. [...]

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) and Los Angeles County Bike Coalition (LACBC) are ahead of schedule with their April Fool’s jokes.  The two organizations, which are partnering in studying sharrows, rather than implementing them, announced new pursuits today that have my eyes crossed. LADOT announced that it has opened an LADOT Bike Blog, [...]