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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 […]
July 18, 2012
Today, Bikas will pass along a story that we heard many years ago. I can’t vouch to its veracity: Once upon a time, there was a small kingdom called De’Ir. De’Ir was located on an island called Sihkwah, just off the coast of Kh’arz, and said to be very much under the influence of Kh’arz. The […]
July 17, 2012
The city of Los Angeles is hosting a series of meetings to kick off its process of studying then (hopefully) implementing 40+ miles of somewhat more difficult bike lane projects. There’s a webinar today, Tuesday, 3-4pm (details/rsvp here), and the final in-person meeting tomorrow: Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 from 6-8pm at the L.A. River Center, […]
July 11, 2012
During Fiscal Year 2011-2012 – that’s July 2011 to June 2012 – the city of Los Angeles achieved unprecedented accomplishments in implementing new bicycle facilities. The city added ~62.5 new miles of bikeways, including 50.26 new miles of bike lane!! Woooot! Woooooooot! Bikas decided to do a report card grading the city’s FY2011-2012 highlighting the […]
July 5, 2012
Now that it’s July and the city’s fiscal year is over, I’ve been tooling around a bit in the city’s bike lane mileage data. As Bikas posted earlier this week, the city of Los Angeles implemented 50.26 miles of new bike lanes during the past fiscal year 2011-12. This is an order of magnitude greater […]
July 4, 2012
It’s the second post from Bikas recent trip to San Francisco. See also Bikas’ earlier post about San Francisco’s new green bike lane conflict zones (and our S.F. sketches if you’re into that.) Today, we’re going to report on San Francisco’s new protected bike lanes on JFK Drive. This bike facility is located on John […]
July 3, 2012
It’s July 2012, which means that the city of Los Angeles has just completed Fiscal Year 2011-2012. The city’s fiscal year runs July 1st to June 31st. Mayor Villaraigosa’s directive to “build 40 miles of bikeway a year” went into effect July 1st 2011, one full year ago. The great news is that L.A. City […]
July 2, 2012
We’ve got City Hall nearly surrounded!! Mentioned earlier as announced and underway, the city of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) extended the Main Street bike lanes northward. The newest stretch, added in late June 2012, extends 1.4 miles from Cesar Chavez Avenue to 9th Street, which is where Spring Street merges into Main Street.
July 2, 2012
The city of Los Angeles Department of Transportation recently installed new bike lanes on Huntington Drive in the eastside L.A. neighborhood of El Sereno. The Huntington bike lanes are 2.1 miles long. They extend from Esmerelda Street (a couple blocks east of where Soto Street ends) to Maycrest Avenue. Maycrest is the intersection immediately west […]
January 6, 2013
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