One of the ironies of Los Angeles is that Metro, despite being a transit agency, is still obsessed with the windshield perspective. Even as driving miles drop steadily in the US—since well before the Great Recession (brought on in part by sprawl)—the powers that be wobble onward building more lanes, more parking, more roads. We’ve [...]
Read More ...Let’s start off today’s post with this lovely little photo of Figueroa Boulevard, the street that naysayers whine is “too busy” to give up an inch of asphalt to bike lanes, the street that needs to remain a junior speedway for the convenience of cut-through drivers: Daunting traffic isn’t it? I snapped the photo a [...]
Read More ...This is what we’re up against. The ugliest backlash I ever seen in LA against bike lanes. Do you ever want to ride a bike on North Figueroa Street in a buffered bike lane? The LADOT has plans to install a 5-foot wide bike lane on North Figueroa Street this year – but those plans [...]
Read More ...Join us this month on the first Spoke(n) Art Ride sponsored by NELA Art’s Microgrant! This is going to be a Spoke(n) Art Ride like none we have done before (well, they are all like that, but this one is going to be something special). Meet at the Flying Pigeon LA bike shop at 6 [...]
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