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Downtown L.A. has endured a half-decade of construction for the Metro Regional Connector subway. Construction is nearly complete. The new subway is due to open in 2022. Metro is already starting to restore streets where it has been doing construction. After adding great new transit stations and new transit service – why restore streets back to […]
June 11, 2020
This week I wrote a piece about planned new bus lanes on 5th and 6th Streets in downtown Los Angeles. I think the bus lanes are very important. I am really glad to see LADOT and Metro working together to make this happen. Street repaving is getting under way next week (June 15), and re-striping […]
April 27, 2020
Write a few emails today – in support of safer streets under COVID-19 – and specifically in support of quick-build safety improvements for Los Angeles City’s Fouth Street. BACKGROUND: In many parts of the world, cities are responding to the COVID-19 crisis by implementing quick-build measures to make streets better serve the present need for safe walking and bicycling. […]
December 30, 2016
Northeast L.A.’s Fletcher Drive recently received some handsome new road diet bike lanes. Unfortunately, they only extend as far south as (almost to) San Fernando Road. Two days ago, LAPD reported a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a 19-year-old pedestrian at Fletcher and La Clede Avenue – just two blocks south of the recent improvements. […]
February 12, 2014
In just a couple days, I am moving to Los Angeles to write for L.A. Streetsblog. I don’t expect to be posting much here at Bikas… but you can read my stuff at L.A. Streetsblog. I have a few last things to post about Jersey City. JC has been a great place to live, and […]
January 16, 2014
It’s only very tangentially related to bicycling… but I wanted to write down a few thoughts on the Chris Christie “Bridgegate” scandal. New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie, in apparent retaliation against local democrats, was responsible for closing lanes onto the George Washington Bridge, which connects the state of NJ with Manhattan. This is the […]
January 15, 2014
Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken have partnered to implement a three-municipality bike share system, similar to NYC’s Citibike. The joint RFP is available online here. The deadline for submissions is January 31st 2014; the specified launch date for the system is Summer 2014. The RFP includes this description of Jersey City: Jersey City, New Jersey’s […]
December 17, 2013
With the huge visibility and success of NYC’s CitiBike, there’s a great deal of interest in bringing bike share to the west bank of the Hudson River. At tomorrow’s meeting, Jersey City’s City Council will vote on a resolution to lay the groundwork for local bike share. Cyclists are encouraged to attend the council meeting […]
December 3, 2013
Apologies for not getting to this sooner – between family duties and holidays and a cold, I didn’t get around to reporting on the status of the November 15th Jersey City City Council bikeway vote – announced earlier here. I attended the council meeting, which ran long due to extended testimony regarding Journal Square redevelopment. […]
November 12, 2013
I was happy to read that NJ Transit announced that the 2nd Street Station bike-path, which Bikas wrote about earlier here, will be open to the public very soon. NJ.com has an article, dated November 11th 2013, entitled One year late, $4M walkway linking Hoboken and Jersey City nearing completion. It reads in part: The Hudson Bergen Light […]
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