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I had a brief trip to San Francisco earlier this week. I wrote this earlier post about excellent bike facilities in SF, and there’s plenty of great coverage at SF Streetsblog… but I like to bike around places I visit, and to see what lessons they might have for Los Angeles (see my recent San […]
June 27, 2012
Today was the big day when I served on the Santa Monica Museum of Art‘s (SMMoA’s) expert artists panel to select a winner for the museum’s 2012 Tour da Arts materials. If you’re not familiar with Tour da Arts, watch this video right away. It was great to hang out with SMMoA’s education staff and […]
June 22, 2012
Programming nota: Bikas’ entire writing team is going out of town for a few days – we’ll be back in town, rightin’ reedin’ and respondin’ next Wednesday June 27th 2012. Here’s a quick post while we pack - Earlier this week, I attended the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition‘s event Supporting a Bikeable Los Angeles […]
June 20, 2012
I am excited about the new bike lanes on First Street in Downtown Los Angeles! Bikas reported on the First Street lanes announcement as part of a downtown bikeway network, and twice about their preliminary striping. Today, Bikas covers the somewhat disappointing history of these lanes. The moral of the story is something along the […]
June 19, 2012
The city of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has installed additional bike lane on Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles. The new Vermont Avenue bike lane segment is 2.1 miles long extending from Redondo Beach Boulevard to 120 Street.
June 19, 2012
It’s the end of the fiscal year and the Los Angeles Department of Transportation has been busy adding quite a few new bike lane facilities. Bikas may need to do multiple posts each day to keep up with the city’s impressive output. This post’s featured bike lanes are on South Figueroa Street, extending 1.0-mile from […]
June 18, 2012
L.A.’s cyclist activists have a history and reputation for DIY (Do It Yourself) projects: painting sharrows and bike lanes, adding safety signage, etc. Drivers also have some history of DIY efforts toward enhancing parking. Today’s story focuses on a San Fernando Valley street where someone has painted DIY gray curbs to increase car parking at the expense of bicyclist […]
June 15, 2012
Bikas spotted work underway on the new bike lanes on First Street and Main Street in Downtown Los Angeles. For detailed background on what the city of Los Angeles is calling the Downtown Bikeway Network, see this overview and this post on the new Los Angeles Street lanes. Since last weekend, Main Street has been […]
June 15, 2012
Within the past week or so, the city of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) added 2.7 miles of bike lane on Burbank Boulevard. The new Burbank Blvd lanes extend from Radford Avenue (just west of the 170 Freeway) to Hazeltine Avenue (just east of Van Nuys Boulevard.)
June 14, 2012
The city of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) recently striped new bike lanes on La Tuna Canyon Road in Sun Valley. The new La Tuna bike lanes extend 0.26 miles from Sunland Boulevard to Glenoaks Boulevard.
June 28, 2012
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