(Help the Bicycle Kitchen reach their fundraising goal to buy their own space. You can donate on-line or you can pay to attend their celebratory square dance this Saturday night April 28th 2012.) 2005 was a big year for bicycling in Los Angeles. The m... »
CicLAvia! (LAT, Patch, KPCC, ABC 7, The Source) Bike Share! (LAist, Daily News, Neon Tommy, CBS 2, Yo Venice, The Source) Glendale, Burbank, Want in on CicLAvia (Leader) Metrolink Fail, Suburban Rail Service Runs Out of Room for Bikes (LAT) Metro Consi... »
Mechanics and Boyle Heights residents worked on their bikes at Saturday's ResuWRENCHion at Proyecto Jardin, hosted by the Ovarian-Psycos Bicycle Brigade. Photo by Kris Fortin When Rey Veitia works on people’s bicycles at Bici Libre, he’s used to the so... »
Along with announcing the upcoming CicLAvia on April 15, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaragosa introduced at a press conference in McArthur Park the Spanish-language Bicycle Safety Public Service announcement. The PSA was inspired by the ideas from day... »
The next CicLAvia is a week from Sunday, April 15. Bike Nation will have 100 bikes at CicLAvia for people to borrow for free. That news is old to regular Streetsblog readers by now, but tomorrow morning the media campaign to ready the general public ge... »
Apparently, I should let reader's know April Fool's plans earlier so I can get better graphics. NYT: L.A. Needs to Be More Like New York, Part MMCCCXVIII Toronto Globe and Mail: Toronto Needs to Be More Like L.A. High Speed Rail Gets Shorter Route, Sla... »
Featured Headline: A jogger was hit by a car at the intersection of Tesla and Silver Lake Drive on Wednesday and was taken to the hospital. Silver Lake residents have complained about this intersection for years and both the local City Councilman, Tom... »
The election is still a year away and already the campaign promises are flying! This past friday evening, Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti joined Bill Roschen, President of LA’s Planning Commission, and Christopher Hawthorne, Architecture Critic for the... »
There’s been a lot of excitement, not just in Silver Lake but around the city, for the opening of Los Angeles’ first street plaza in Silver Lake this weekend. Pictures and renderings of the “Sunset Triangle Plaza” at at Griffith Park and Sunset Boulev... »
Photo by Victor Entre Puertas Having only trained for three hours in one week’s time, Adrian Gonzalez knew he wasn’t ready for the 50-mile Los Angeles to Orange County DREAM ride. Gonzalez, a deaf studies undergrad at California State University, North... »
Image via Streets 4 People. For more on the March 4 opening of a pedestrian plaza in Silver Lake, check out the Curbed article below. Mark Your Calendar: New Pedestrian Plaza Opens in Silver Lake on March 4 (Curbed) “Many” DUI’s Later, Woman Finally Hi... »
Culver City CRA Busy Last Day, Gets Out Request for Projects and Approves Contract in Last Week (Wave via Curbed) Red Line Stations Getting Hats (Brigham Yen) …And This Time, It’s Staying Green! (LADOT Bike Blog) Express Bus Linking South Bay to Long B... »
“Streets for People” Unveil First Project: Pocket Park in Silver Lake (Curbed, Eastsider) Long Beach’s Bike Friendly Business District: Making Green and Going Green (LB Biz) Governor Brown Announces CEQA Reforms (CP&DR) L.A. Still Building CRA Projects... »
Bruce Chan, second to the right, explains his group's model of Glendale Boulevard as a culturally rich roadway. Photo: Kris Fortin While Jose Sigala, president of the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council, and architect Peter Lassen helped con... »
New bike lanes on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood - among the 12 new miles of bike lanes implemented in late 2011. The good news: the city of Los Angeles is implementing more bike lanes than ever before. From July 2011 through December 2011, the city o... »
