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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I’m usually skeptic when I receive a video link about the Rights & Rules of cyclists. (I’m not seeing any video being circulated around the web about the Rights & Rules of drivers, and they are the ones who kill over 40,000 people a year.)

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People here on the west coast like to say that in New York you could die on the street and nobody would notice. People who are saying this like to pride themselves, that here in LA it’s so different. I’m of a different opinion:
Yesterday at noon I went down to the Metro to ride to […]

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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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For the second time in 10 days, a motorist was injured in a collision with a Gold Line train after crashing through lowered fiberglass crossing gates along the route between Los Angeles and Pasadena, raising anew the issue of safety along commuter lines running through heavily populated areas.The crash Friday morning at Avenue 50 and […]

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I hope you all are doing well, and can manage the heat.  I went this week to the CPAB (Community Police Advisory Board) and they were talking about the two young women who were attacked on Monday night.  These two women were in their early to mid 20s, and they left their sliding window open, […]

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