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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 […]
June 28, 2012
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 […]
July 4, 2012
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