Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Los Angeles

The National Women’s Bicycling Summit: This Is Not a Bike

By Brian Addison | Sep 18, 2012 | No Comments

Leah Missbach Day, co-founder of World Bicycle Relief and keynote speaker at last week’s National Women’s Bicycling Summit, in Long Beach, California, was very succinct with her main point about a bike: “This is not a bike.” The bike is a tool, she intoned; a tool that helps generate economic stability, community cohesiveness, and gender […]

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How Handicap Placard Abuse Threatens SF’s Parking Reforms

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 31, 2012 | 47 Comments

If cities needed any more reason to curb handicap placard abuse, here it is. The authors of a new study out of Los Angeles point out that rampant placard abuse threatens to undermine performance parking programs like SFPark by skewing the data and the price of parking, the Atlantic Cities explains: If a city has […]

Sunnyvale Latest City to Consider Anti-Harassment Law for Bike Riders

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 9, 2012 | 11 Comments

A groundbreaking law adopted in Los Angeles almost one year ago that allows bicycle riders to take civil action against drivers who harass them continues to generate local and national interest, with Sunnyvale becoming the latest city to consider enacting protections. “So many (drivers) seem to think it’s like basketball rules: no hit, no foul. […]

Lance Armstrong, L.A.’s Mayor Push Brown on S.B. 910

By Damien Newton | Oct 3, 2011 | No Comments

Bicycling superstar Lance Armstrong and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have joined forces again. Their target: Governor Jerry Brown. Their message: sign S.B. 910, the state’s three foot passing law that would protect cyclists from drivers who pass too close and too fast. “Gov. Brown can help make our roads safer for everyone by making […]

Interview With Donald Shoup: Los Angeles Making Strides With ExpressPark

By Damien Newton | Aug 24, 2011 | No Comments

Last week Streetsblog LA talked with UCLA Professor and parking guru Donald Shoup about ExpressPark, the new parking pricing system coming to downtown Los Angeles. Damien Newton: Los Angeles is changing the way it does parking in its downtown. They’re calling it the ExpressPark system. Let’s start with the basics — what is the program […]

CicLAvia: 100,000 Cyclists, Zero Incidents, Millions of Stories

By Damien Newton | Oct 11, 2010 | No Comments

The numbers for yesterday’s CicLAvia are impressive. KABC News says that there were 50,000 people riding the streets of Los Angeles along a 7.5 mile stretch of streets that were open to public use, but closed to automobiles. The Los Angeles Times puts that number closer to 100,00 people. Anecdotally, the Coke truck ran out […]

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