Bikeside LA

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 [...]

WIN!  Jane Blumenfeld, who I recently criticized, wrote activists today to tell us the public comment period has been reinstated and extended to January 8th: City staff will take comments on the draft Bicycle Plan (which can be read on line at labikeplan.org) until January 8th, 2010. YEEEHAWWW!  Thank you Jane for doing the right [...]

“If you read the actual list of facilities and add up all the miles, then you’d be aware that the plan only calls for *28 new miles* of bike lanes.” – Joe Linton. Just 28 miles.

(updated to include proper spelling and title for Jane Blumenfeld, hat tip Joe Linton) The Planning Department has been misleading people, telling people that their comments will be considered in the LA Bike Plan after the public comment period has passed.  Even better, the Planning Department refused to extend the deadline, but the recipient of [...]

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 [...]

Enter the bike plan writing challenge!  We challenge anyone and everyone to write an introduction to LA’s Best Bike Plan, which begins with the sentence “Every street is a street that cyclists will ride.”  500 words or less!  Submit your composition to alexcthompson@gmail.com. I’ll post the submissions in batches as I receive them, and I’ll [...]

(originally printed on City Watch on Monday.  Sign up for City Watch here.) Bill Rosendahl, LA City Council Transportation Committee Chair, can be a great champion of any cause, but lately he is missed by cyclists and transportation advocates.  And so, if I may begin this public comment with my “ask”, I ask Bill to [...]

If you can’t make the Bike Working Group today, here are twelve principles we’ll be presenting.  These principles were distilled out of the 8 solid pages of ideas that came out of the first Bike Working Group.  Bikeside and the Bike Writers Collective will be presenting these 12 principles as the proposed backbone of LA’s [...]

Thanks to Ken Alpern, I was able to attend the Council District 11 (Bill Rosendahl) Transportation Advisory Committee.  We discussed the draft LA Bike Plan, and we passed two motions, unanimously (with 1 abstention each.) The 1st Motion: The first, was authored by the committee collectively, with Jay Handel (West LA NC) at the lead: [...]

If you can do one thing for cycling this week, come to the 2nd meeting of the Bike Working Group, put on by Bikeside and the Bike Writers Collective, this Saturday afternoon.  We’ll meet Saturday, from 1pm till 4pm in downtown Los Angeles at The Exchange, 114 W. 5th St (Facebook event.) If you can [...]