Bikeside LA

Was Think Bike LA great?  I can’t answer that question, I wasn’t there.  What I can say is that the concept behind Think Bike LA is great.  Dutch planners sharing their biking best practices with LADOT staff and community stakeholders is a great idea.  Instead of LA’s bike activists electronically screaming “you don’t get it!”, [...]

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 [...]

“Take this plan and shove it.  Who needs it?  Not us.” That’s been a common refrain in backroom discussions about the proposed LA Bike Plan.  When the plan first came out there was outrage at the lateness, and frustration with the narrow comment period.  Then, as people began to dissect the plan, dismay at how [...]

Michelle Mowery said that LA did not get the same robust Bike Plan process as Portland in part because Portland is “very white” and LA is “a very diverse, disjointed city.”  Mowery, LA DOT’s Bicycle Coordinator, made her assertion Wednesday in LA City Council Transportation Committee.  Here’s the transcript with Councilman Bill Rosendahl’s question and [...]

The Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) unanimously voted tonight to demand that the deadline for public input on the Los Angeles Bike Master Plan (LABMP), November 6th, be extended to January 8th.   With the support of the BAC, the only official body representing cyclists in the city, the campaign for sufficient time is looking better.