If you are in Santa Monica this afternoon, you might want to participate in todays civic obedience event put up by the Crimanimalz. The event is called CRIMANIMALZ VS THE SANTA MONICA POLICE (080808) Because Santa Monica Arrested Santa.
This ride will consist of disruptive civil obedience. Obedience because they will follow the law - […]

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In the grand scheme of things, fighting to ensure that cyclists have full access to the 2008 Griffith Park Festival of Lights may seem like a low priority battle with little to gain, especially if you’ve ever spent much time sucking the fumes from the middle of the gridlocked environmental nightmare.

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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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What is the Bill of Rights? And how many of us read it, let alone how many of us know all ten amendments? Most of us probably learned it in school and we hear it in conversations all the time.
But sometimes we take the rights of the People for granted. 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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On Thursday morning (September 6) we will join with other cyclists for a ride to the Beverly Hills Traffic Commission where we will address the Police Department and the Commission, urging them to provide equal access to all modes of travel and to provide cyclists with the full support of the law.
We hope you can […]

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We meet at 6:00 pm @ the Bike Oven and we linger a while to admire the new digs before riding to Pasadena for the City Council Meeting.
“New location for the Bike Oven!”
3706 North Figueroa St.
Highland Park
Just 1/3 of a mile from the Heritage Square Gold Line station.
or join us at the
Pasadena City Hall
100 N. […]

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What a shame! In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Pasadena City Council passed a motion prohibiting “bicyclists from riding more than two abreast in any public street…”
The night was long, starting at 6:30 in the evening on Monday, and the agenda was heavy with tedious items that resulted in long discussions about ending […]

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