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!”, [...]

It’s a given that understanding a situation improves your ability to respond to it.  That’s the value of edumucation!  That’s why understanding the structure of the City of LA is key to understanding how activists can motivate change, and improve the environment for cyclists.  It follows that misunderstanding can lead to catastrophic failure, and waste [...]

On Friday Ted Rogers of Biking In LA attacked John Fisher, Assistant General Manager of Operations of LADOT, claiming that Fisher is ultimately responsible for Bikeways failures.  In “Who’s the man behind the curtain of L.A. bicycling?” Rogers, a board member for the LACBC, exonerates Michelle Mowery by arguing that she is not powerful enough to [...]

Late post y’all, but I highly recommend calling into to today’s Airtalk: Pavement Wars 2.  It’s going to be all about the tension between cyclists and motorists.  It starts at 10:20am, and runs to 11am.  Ted Rogers, author of BikingInLA, will be on representing cyclists, and Michelle Mowery of LADOT will be on representing motorists.