Bikeside LA

Bikeside endorsed six candidates for positions in the recent Neighborhood Council elections in West LA.  All six candidates faced challengers, and all six candidates won!  (Incidentally, I also won the Community Director position at Mar Vista Community Council, but I was unopposed, so we didn’t do an endorsement.) In the most hotly contested race in [...]

Bikeside is proud to endorse Albert Olson, at large candidate for Mar Vista Community Council (MVCC.)  Albert claims that he isn’t an expert in transportation, but when I first met him he was the chairman of the vibrant and well run MVCC Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.  Shortly after he became the chair of the MVCC [...]

Bikeside’s slate of candidates for the April 11th Neighborhood Council elections is growing!  We are proud to endorse Sharon Commins, at large candidate for Mar Vista Community Council (MVCC), Linda Lucks, who is running for President of Venice Neighborhood Council (VNC), and Kristopher Valentine, at large candidate for VNC. If you live (reside), work, or [...]

There will be some new guest bloggers around the place in the coming weeks, but if some writer comes in and says “I this, I that” without stating who they are, you probably know it’s me, Alex.  For instance, they might say “I’m running for Community Director of Mar Vista Community Council.”

The demand for an extension of the deadline for public input (November 6th) on the LA Bike Plan process continues to gather momentum.  The Mar Vista Community Council (MVCC) passed a motion requesting an extension of the deadline, and Silver Lake Neighborhood Council is hot on their heels.  However, so far Transportation Chairman Bill Rosendahl [...]