You all know that I’m involved with the cycling issues here in LA. Cycling for me is not for sport but I believe in cycling as a transportation solution.
I ride everywhere; to auditions and jobs, to the movies and the theatre, I ride to fun events and I also ride to the grocery store […]

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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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Me: An LA Cyclist
You: An Inverted U Bike Rack
I thought I could count on you. I was there. I thought you’d be waiting for me. I looked and looked and you were nowhere to be found. I asked and nobody had seen you. How could you leave me hanging like that?
This is getting old. […]

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Two months have already passed and we are riding again to the Bicycle Advisory Committee. (Even though not many on the Committee are cyclists and not much advising is going on, we just have to accept their name for the time being.)
I couldn’t attend the June meeting but I heard it was quite […]

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by homegrownrevolution
An article in the July 31, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) detailing Nissan’s plans to develop an in-car navigational system for motorists in Beijing’s increasingly congested streets contains a remarkable conclusion:
“Michael Walsh, an independent consultant who works on motor-vehicle issues in China, says the Nissan system has one major drawback: […]

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by homegrownrevolution
Just the very name Caltrans brings to mind billions of square feet of concrete and asphalt, the paving of paradise, and what James Howard Kunstler calls the “national automobile slum” which is why it was such a pleasure yesterday to have those stereotypes broken by going on a bike ride with some of the […]

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May 14-18, 2007 is celebrated around the country as Bike to Work Week and on Thursday, May 17, 2007, local cyclists will converge on Hollywood and Western in a demonstration of cycling solidarity and at 9 am they will ride down to City Hall.
The Hollywood and Western Pit Stop is hosted by illuminateLA and will […]

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The “new” Sunset Boulevard bike lanes were installed and positioned a constant distance from the curb. (left side is 12′ from the curb, right side is 7′ from the curb) This moved the bike lanes closer to the curb in seven different locations between Lucile and Alvarado!
I note in the MUTCD that the standard is […]

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STORM THE BASTILLE
Tuesday, April 3rd, 5:30 pm
The Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committee meets every other month to address cycling issues in the City of Los Angeles. They speak on behalf of the cycling community and advise the Los Angeles City Council, the Department of Transportation, the Planning Departments and the Department of Recreation […]

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