May 12-16, 2008 is celebrated around the country as Bike to Work Week and on Thursday, May 15, 2008, local cyclists will converge on Hollywood and Western in a demonstration of cycling solidarity.
The Hollywood and Western Pit Stop is hosted by illuminateLA and will offer refreshments, swag and encouragement to cyclists from 6 am to […]

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Thank you for pulling us 4 cyclists over tonight and for giving us a lecture on safe left turns.
Thank you for letting us know that you know CVC 21202.
Thank you for making the streets safer for us cyclists by pulling us over for impeding traffic.
Thank you for taking your time and standing in the cold […]

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On February 2, 2008 LA Cyclists will gather at the Eco-Village for a neighborhood bike ride, all in an effort to get out the vote for Obama.
There are many issues on the table in the upcoming election but when it comes to sustainable communities and intentional living, the campaign noise gets quieter.
In fact, when the […]

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Councilmember Tom LaBonge, the DWP, LADOT and the Department of Rec & Park(ing) have conspired to exclude cyclists from the Griffith Park Festival of Lights.
Little do they realize, “We ARE the Festival!”
Illuminate yourself with your brightest lights, meet at the Mulholland Fountain (Riverside & Los Feliz) @ 7:30 pm, ride at 8:00 pm.
Remember, “We ARE […]

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Originally posted on LAist by Stephen Box

Los Angeles CityBeat’s Greg Katz asks Tom LaBonge why cyclists can’t ride through the Griffith Park DWP Light Festival and Tom almost completes a sentence before simply dodging and deflecting and offering more hollow promises for the future.

Greg asks “You’re a bike advocate, a Griffith Park advocate, and you […]

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Originally posted on LAist by Stephen Box

For the past two weeks Councilmember Tom LaBonge has been proudly welcoming visitors to the 12th Annual LADWP Holiday Light Festival at Griffith Park, announcing with a straight face that this year’s Festival demonstrates the DWP’s commitment to a “Greener LA.”
Tom deserves credit for maintaining a straight face as […]

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CVC 21202 Suspended for the Month of December?
The LADOT, the DWP, Rec & Park(ing) and Councilmember Tom LaBonge have once again overruled State Law declaring the Griffith Park Festival of Lights to be BICYCLE FREE.
Kim Hughes of the DWP explained that “the LADOT traffic consultants felt that the significant automobile traffic for the Festival of […]

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On Labor Day my husband was riding his bike home from the Ice Cream Social when a bus honked at him and squeezed him into the parked cars on Hollywood Boulevard.
We encounter bad bus drivers on a daily basis and we also encounter good ones. We always take down the bus number, route info, time […]

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If you’re out and about today and see parks in parking spaces, there is a good explanation for it. Today is Park(ing) Day all over the world, where people convert parks for cars into parks for people.
Park(ing) Day started with a group of cyclists in San Francisco in 2005 and within a year it […]

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Capt. Curtis of the Beverly Hills Police Department appeared before the BH Traffic Commission to address one issue, the “SUV vs. Cyclist” incident on August 21, 2007 that resulted in a citation for the cyclist and nothing for the motorist.
Also in attendance were 8 local cyclists, none having met the cited cyclist before but all […]

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