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On December 6th 2012, Jersey City Mayor Jerremiah Healy announced that, during 2013, Jersey City will receive 54.7 new miles of bikeway. I received the news via the NJ.com article Move over, drivers: Jersey City plans to add 54 miles of bike lanes. The article describes the future bike facilities as part of a “comprehensive bike […]
November 27, 2012
There are 0.3 miles of new bike lanes on Santa Monica Boulevard in the city of Los Angeles neighborhood of East Hollywood. The new bike lanes extend from just below Sunset Boulevard at Sunset Junction all the way to Virgil Avenue, fairly near the new Bicycle Kitchen’s new location. The lanes connect with existing bike […]
October 25, 2012
(Note: Bikas organizer-in-chief Joe Linton is moving to Jersey City, New Jersey, in January 2013. I am here now through mid-November. For the foreseeable future, I will be blogging NJ/NYC bike stuff here at Bikas blog.) Last weekend, my fiance and I took a two-day weekend trip to Tarrytown, NY – about 30 miles north […]
August 16, 2012
Bikas founder Joe Linton will be a guest tonight on KCRW radio‘s Which Way L.A.? The news radio segment airs at 7pm-8pm today, August 16th 2012, at 89.9 on your FM dial. You can listen online – then or after – too. Tonight’s program will feature a 10-minute segment discussing the recent New York Times […]
August 1, 2012
An occasional round-up of some links that Bikas recommends! >At Taking the Lane, Elly Blue coins a new term “Bikewashing” to describe those non-bikey things that are using bikes to advertise. An excerpt: As bicycling becomes more popular, there’s been a shift in the bike imagery used in advertising. Sure, there are still adssuggesting that […]
July 30, 2012
So, after seeing them posted in a few places on Facebook, I figured I’d better go get me some of the U.S. Postal Service’s new bicycle stamps. From the wording on the back of the stamps: Whether a youngster just learning to ride, a commuter on the way to work, a road racer crossing the […]
July 27, 2012
Earlier this week, I posted about a sign that cautioned pedestrians where I thought drivers were to blame… continuing Bikas scintilating sign series, today I take on a pair of similar signs, starting with this one: This sign is in Tustin, California, about an hour’s train ride southeast of Los Angeles. It’s the suburb where […]
January 6, 2013
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