| alexcthompson@gmail.com | 205 posts
As the city, state and federal government burn money that doesn't exist, City Councilman Bill Rosendahl & Paul Koretz are pushing LA to support an extension of the beach bike path at $15 million per mile. Cyclists' have expressed preference for on-street facilities in the city, but the two West LA councilman, who both serve on the Budget & Finance Committee, [...]
February 4, 2010
LAPD Sergeant David Krumer and Commander David Doan sorted through massive collision data for 2008, and found that in 2008, 23% of bike involved traffic collisions are Hit & Run – 3% were misdemeanor and 20% were felony. This was just one statistic of many in a report on bike collisions in LA in 2008. [...]
February 3, 2010
Jeremy Grant, one of the members of the Bike Working Group Steering Committee, just released the Valley Area map for the Backbone Network. I highly recommend going over there and reading his post, because he gives some good visuals of how we put the network together, and has some interesting comments on it. Also, because [...]
February 3, 2010
There will be some new guest bloggers around the place in the coming weeks, but if some writer comes in and says “I this, I that” without stating who they are, you probably know it’s me, Alex. For instance, they might say “I’m running for Community Director of Mar Vista Community Council.”
February 2, 2010
Bill Rosendahl and Paul Koretz sponsored a motion to spend $30 million dollars on 2 miles of bike path (report by the Chief Legislative Analyst – pdf), extending the beach bike path further north. That’s FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS per mile. Resolution (Rosendahl – Koretz) to include in the City’s 2009-2010 Federal Legislative Program SPONSORSHIP and/or SUPPORT [...]
February 1, 2010
If you open the draft of the proposed Bike Plan, and you flip to the maps, you’ll find a sixteen pages of confusing mess: dashed lines, dotted lines, infeasible lines, and tiny street names. By contrast, when the Bike Working Group publishes its Best Bike Plan (a community effort to produce a ambitious bike plan [...]
January 29, 2010
[UPDATE: Sharon McNary apologized to Enci in the comments over at IlluminateLA] There’s good publicity and there’s bad publicity. For cycling in LA, it used to be that any publicity was good publicity, because we were so desperate for attention. I think however, we’ve reached a point where we would benefit from a little less bad [...]
January 28, 2010
A note to the LA Times: do your research! In an article on the cyclist anti-harassment ordinance, Shelby Grad writes: On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to study ways to protect cyclists. . . . Among the ideas being consider: creating bike sharing lanes in certain areas, improving training for police and creating a cyclist “Bill [...]
January 25, 2010
Wednesday’s Transportation Committee will prove a litmus test on Rosendahl’s tenure as Chairman of the Transportation Committee. Rosendahl will steer the committee in deciding whether to approve speed limit increases on Chandler, Beverly Glen, and Riverside Drive (LAist). Will Rosendahl take proactive measures to protect cyclists and pedestrians, or sweep away progress thus far and [...]
January 24, 2010
Unless you’ve been under a rock where they don’t have the internet, you know that the Mandeville Canyon road rager, Christopher Thompson, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison. From a punitive standpoint, he deserves every lick. For many though, it’s hard to celebrate that; even Ron Peterson, who lost his nose to Thompson’s [...]
February 5, 2010
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