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Cartoon Tuesday: Calvin and Hobbes Turn 30

By Damien Newton | Nov 24, 2015 | No Comments

Last week, TIME Magazine reported that Calvin and Hobbes was first published thirty years ago this month. For a lot of people my age, the story of a precocious and imaginative young boy and his stuffed tiger/best friend was a daily treat. For me, it was how I spent my last couple of minutes before […]

Equity Advocates Discuss Needs of “Invisible” Cyclists on HuffPost Live

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 5, 2015 | No Comments

Last week, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University published a story declaring that “Most Cyclists Are Working-Class Immigrants, Not Hipsters.” If you spend any time in the streets and/or pay attention to cycling issues, this is something you probably already knew. At least, intuitively. It’s been a little harder to substantiate that […]

Exhausted by Bus Commute, LA Mobility Advocate Decides to Buy Car

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 29, 2015 | No Comments

What was I writing about, a woman wanted to know. She had heard me explain to a gentleman passenger on the bus that, just because I had a camera with me, I was not also a model. Nor was I a stripper. I was a journalist. That news seemed to have disappointed him. He had […]

Awesome 11-Year-Old Defends Road Diet, Calls Out LA’s “Bullying” Drivers

By Joe Linton | Sep 21, 2015 | No Comments

In case you need a reason to feel confident about the next generation of livable streets advocates, check out this viral video of 11-year old Matlock Grossman, standing up for a road diet in his Los Angeles neighborhood. Grossman has been bike commuting since he was seven, and now commutes five miles each way to school. […]

Fix the Law That Criminalizes Pedestrians in California

By Joe Linton | Apr 30, 2015 | No Comments

In his insightful article “Struggling student a victim of high fines and misdemeanors,” Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez clearly lays out the human cost of so-called “jaywalking” tickets. SBLA includes “jaywalking” in quotes because the term was invented by the auto lobby nearly a century ago to re-frame how people think about how streets should be used. The […]

City of LA’s First Parking-Protected Bike Lanes Come to Reseda Boulevard

By Joe Linton | Apr 3, 2015 | No Comments

Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles installed its first ever parking-protected bike lanes. They’re on Reseda Boulevard in Northridge, part of the mayor’s Great Streets Initiative. As of this morning, the project is roughly one-quarter complete. The new protected lanes, also known as cycletracks, are mostly complete on the west side of Reseda Blvd from Plummer Street […]

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