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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What are the benefits or riding? Amongst other things:

Less pollution - Every gallon of gasoline we burn creates about 20 pounds of climate change-causing CO2.
Shaping up - Casual biking burns about 173 calories per hour.
Saving your money - A typical U.S. family spends nearly $8,000 per year operating a car, while a bike might cost […]

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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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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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Dear LAPD,
Bikes belong in traffic! Cyclists belong on the street and not in the gutter, or the door zone, or the sidewalk (read “walk”.)
Below is the San Francisco PD training video, but the California Vehicle Code (CVC) is the same here in Los Angeles. Please, watch this and write down the code.
Protect the people by […]

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