Look, I’m sorry. But I’ve just got nothing left to give after writing about yet another SoCal bike death, and yet another death from traffic violence on North Fig.
This is all just so fucking needless, and so fucking endless. I’ll see you all next week, and we’ll start over.
Gil Cedillo killed a man in Highland Park Wednesday night.
No, the former CD1 councilmember wasn’t behind the wheel when a man riding an ebike was run down from behind on North Figueroa, but he might as well have been.
Because it was Cedillo who singlehandedly killed a fully funded and shovel-ready safety project to tame the deadly corridor in 2014, after a series of sham public meetings in which only opponents of the project were allowed to be heard.
Now yet another man has lost his life, exactly where traffic lanes should have been narrowed and bike lanes installed over a decade ago — just the latest in a string of violent collisions that have left at least five people dead since 2015, keeping the corridor on LA’s High Injury Network.
According to KABC-7, the victim, described only as a 40-year old man, was riding north in the right lane of the 4500 block of North Figueroa Street when he was rear-ended by the driver of a gray sedan around 11 pm.
The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The driver remained at the scene.
Video from the scene shows a mangled ebike resting on the curb, but it’s not clear enough to tell what kind of bike it is, though other sources describe it as a bicycle.
There’s no way to say for certain that the victim could be home with his family tonight had Cedillo had not been elected to replace a termed out Ed Reyes. But he would have had a better chance if the safety project approved by Reyes had been allowed to move forward.
I honestly don’t have the words left to express the sadness and anger I feel right now, after writing about seven other fallen bike riders in the last 14 days.
But Gil Cedillo has this man’s blood on his hands, and I hope his loved ones allow him to lie in repose on Cedillo’s doorstep, figuratively if not literally. And I hope they have a damn good lawyer.
This is at least the 53rd bicycling fatality that I’m aware of in Southern California this year, and the 18th in Los Angeles County.
My deepest sympathy and prayers for the victim and his loved ones.
Welcome to the worldwide A Week Without Driving.
Or as I call it, Thursday.
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After ignoring bicycles since the last election cycle — pun intended — Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Karen Bass made a theatrical production of signing a resolution dedicating a whopping $1 million for CicLAvia and other open streets events.
According to LA Magazine,
“As a lifelong biker and native Angeleno, I know how important open and slow streets events like CicLAvia are to our city and the L.A. region. These events connect communities, bring people together, support local businesses, and help us reimagine public spaces in the second-largest city in the country,” said Mayor Bass.
Which is enough to fund two — count ’em, two — CicLAvias. But it’s better than nothing, which is what Metro’s budget originally included.
And speaking of which, CicCLAvia returns to the Heart of Downtown on October 11th, celebrating 16 years and one day since the first one on 10-10-10.
And yes, I still have the T-shirt. But either it shrank, or I didn’t.
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On the last possible day for California bill signings, Gavin Newsom signed Encinitas Senator Catherine Blakespear’s SB 1167, defining the difference between ebikes and e-motos.
Which Streetsblog’s Damien Newton called the best of all the many ebike bills debated by the legislature this year.
Here’s how PeopleForBikes explained it.
SB 1167 establishes a clearer distinction between legal electric bicycles and higher-powered vehicles that are not e-bikes under California law. The legislation reinforces the state’s existing 750-watt and maximum speed limits for e-bikes while strengthening requirements for how e-bikes and other electric vehicles are labeled, marketed, sold, and operated.
Now let’s hope the cops and press read it, and stop confusing the two every chance they get.
Meanwhile, another bill signed by the governor places a 10 mph speed limit on sidewalks — presumably for ebikes and e-scooters, as well as regular bicycles — and allows local authorities to set speed limits on bike paths and trails.
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Fox News considers what sets America’s greenest cities apart, as WalletHub ranks Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco as the top three in a Bay Area sweep.
San Diego is the top SoCal city at six, followed by Irvine at eight. Meanwhile, Los Angeles checks in at a relatively lowly, and overrated, 24, with green Long Beach just two notches higher.
And what sets the greenest cities apart is they’re all in blue states, which probably isn’t what Fox News had in mind.
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Thanks to Megan for forwarding a flyer for a rally in memory of two bike riders killed on the same street on or near UC Davis, as she says the university “punts” on safety measures, as well as responsibility.
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And credit the very prolific Megan again with forwarding video of a student-led ride in Kragujevac, Serbia as they launch an anti-corruption campaign in advance of elections later this month.
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No bias here, as a TikTok user complains about being momentarily stuck behind two Colorado bicyclists riding in the roadway next to a “perfectly good” pathway, even though the bike riders aren’t doing a damn thing wrong, and he’s illegally filming them with a handheld phone.
@motorfeed Cyclists are so annoying. 🤡
No bias here, either, as Megan again forwards video of New York residents alarmed by a block completely taken over by ebikes, while failing to even notice the line of cars parked across the street.
Two real rocket scientists sharing an ebike in York, England recorded themselves assaulting a bike rider by trying to push him off his bicycle as they passed — apparently not realizing they were just creating evidence for their own prosecution.
The woman hit by a bike rider near Boston University on Tuesday remains in critical condition, but is expended to survive with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Nice to see our old friend Kent Strumpell in the pages of the Los Angeles Times, arguing that the best approach to bike networks is building them out as quickly as possible.
San Francisco Streetsblog reports a driver killed a pedestrian at an intersection where a fully funded safety project was supposed to be finished three years ago.
The bike counter on Seattle’s Fremont Bridge just hit 1 million trips so far this year.
A Washington State bike rider was found badly injured in the bushes next to the roadway, with “at least” six broken ribs, broken jaw, a broken eye socket, broken clavicle, several abrasions and a brain bleed, but the cops don’t think he was a hit-and-run victim, insisting he said there wasn’t a car involved, even though all he remembers is waking up in the hospital. Which is pretty fucked up for just falling at less than 12 mph.
Bicyclists want safer streets and expanded bike lanes in Louisville, Kentucky. Just like bike riders pretty much everywhere else.
New York’s city council considers a ridiculous 23 separate bills to rein in ebike riders, or “the scourge of lawless riders” plaguing the city, according to the Post. However, New York’s delivery riders just fear the bills will result in more police stops and racial profiling.
Around 60 bicyclists occupied one lane of DC’s Connecticut Ave during the morning rush hour to call for the protected bike lanes they were promised, until the mayor dropped the plan two years ago citing parking and access for emergency vehicles — even though an ambulance didn’t have any problem passing the protestors.
Speaking of DC, Trump’s plans to turn a popular public golf course into upscale PGA-caliber links could jeopardize a beachfront roadway popular with bicyclists and runners by extending the course to the water’s edge.
New Orleans will offer rebates up to $1,000 on ebike purchases, with the first round limited to 100 people.
A London bicyclist records a taxi driver squeezing past him on busy Oxford Street, which is set to be pedestrianized later this month.
A British pro cycling site offers a guide to Nova Scotia’s nearly 200-mile Cabot Trail, saying it appears to be ideal for bicycling until you consider the steep grades. Which is the same problem I had with freshman algebra.
Taiwan’s Minister of Transportation and Communications biked a part of the island’s 633-mile Cycling Route No. 2 with other government officials, which differs from Cycling Route No. 1 in allowing people to ride at their own pace. No shit.
Road.cc considers why the West wants Chinese mountain bikes, and the Chinese want Western ones.
Slovakian National Team masseur Vladimir Kovacik evidently rubbed pros the right way, saying many top cyclists came up to congratulate him for making it through the first 100 kilometers of the men’s elite road race at the recent World Championships, after he was pressed into service when none of the team members was able to make it to the starting line.
What do WorldTour cyclists think of Artificial Intelli…excuse me, Super Intelligence? We may never know, since I refuse to pay extra on top of my NY Times subscription to get The Athletic, otherwise known as the Time’s sports section.
Now you, too, can bid on an actual replica bike owned by the late, great Pee-Wee Herman and his adult theater-wanking alter-ego, Paul Ruebens. New York’s plan to stop homeless people from cycling between the streets and hospitals apparently has nothing to do with transportation.
And shaming the Eveready Bunny by signing a new pro contract at 50.
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.
Oh, and fuck Putin.
The good news is that no one riding a bicycle appears to have been killed in Southern California yesterday, for only the fourth time in the last eight days.
The bad news is that a report on the Citizen app showed the aftermath of a bike rider struck by a driver in my own Hollywood neighborhood yesterday, at Sunset and Detroit a little before 4 pm.
The video showed police closing Detroit to investigate, which is never a good sign, likely indicating a serious collision.
So fingers crossed.
Rendering of West Valley LA River bike path project shamelessly stolen from LA Streetsblog. And I’ll try to catch up with all the recent email submissions in tomorrow’s post.
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I hate to say it, but she’s got a point.
Writing for CityWatch, Miriam Preissel says she continues to fight the completion of the many named LA River bike path through the Sepulveda Basin, not because she hates bikes, but because she questions how the price tag ballooned to nearly $100 million.
I am not anti-bike. A safe, continuous RiverWay through Los Angeles is a good idea. But taxpayers should still be able to ask a basic question: How did less than three miles of bike and pedestrian improvements become a project approaching $100 million, while five major undercrossings once included in the plan were pushed into the future?
That is where this stops being just a bike-path story and becomes a public-accountability story.
That’s nearly double the original estimate.
Preissel also questions why the bike path has to take a chunk out of the San Fernando Valley’s only dog park, located in Balboa Park.
For years, I have asked a simple question: Why not keep the path on the south side?
The City has never provided what should settle the issue once and for all: a side-by-side analysis comparing the north-side and south-side routes, including cost, engineering constraints, available width, environmental effects and recreational impacts…
In 2023, the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Areas Steering Committee questioned the north-side alignment and said it could find “no supportable justification” for moving approximately a mile of the path from the south side to the north.
The committee also noted that the proposed north-side route would run only a few hundred feet from the existing Orange Line bike path along Victory Boulevard and questioned whether existing bicycle connections might provide much of the same transportation function. It also raised concerns about future floodplain and habitat restoration.
Then there’s the question of lighting, both on the bike path and in the dog park.
The RiverWay is expected to include roughly 233 lights. The dog park still has none.
The park closes at sundown. During the shorter days of the year, that means many working residents may not get home in time to use it. For apartment dwellers, the dog park is not merely a recreational luxury. It may be the only large, legal place nearby where their dogs can run off leash.
Yet the park continues to struggle with basics: irrigation, bare ground, supplies and routine maintenance. At the same time, a nearly $100 million transportation project is moving forward next door.
I wish I had the answers.
I suspect part of it is because construction on the bike path is paid for with grant money, while the dog park comes out of city funds. But if Los Angeles is ever to become the great city it professes and pretends to be, we’ve got to be able to do the basics.
Chop wood, carry water.
This city is failing, and has continued to fail for the past decade, to do the simple things that make a city livable.
Fix potholes. Pick up trash. Get the drug users and people with mental illnesses off the streets, and into housing and treatment programs. And for God’s sake, light and maintain the damn dog parks.
We may have a spiffy new bike trail to show off to the world at the ’28 Olympics, but it will only hide the fact that we’re failing as a city.
Yes, I want all 52 miles of the LA River bike path finally finished, from the headwaters of the Los Angeles River to its mouth to the Pacific in Long Beach.
But I also want a livable city.
Is that really too much to ask?
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Today is the last day for Governor Newsom to sign a number of outstanding bike and traffic safety bills. Anything left unsigned at the end of the day automatically becomes a veto.
Meanwhile, CalMatters looks at the four DUI laws that Newsom signed last week.
Now let’s focus on getting something passed in the next session allowing DAs to charge hit-and-run drivers with second-degree murder for making a conscious decision to flee rather than helping the victim, or at least calling for help.
Is that really too much to ask?
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LA Taco looks at the dispute over improving safety on Forest Lawn Drive.
Which isn’t really a dispute over safety, or even bike lanes. But whether a city street should be kept dangerous to placate the wealthy owners of Forest Lawn and Mount Sinai cemeteries.
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At least Culver City can get things done. Even if it takes a couple decades.
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As a side note, I revised that Spanish language version of my ghost bike t-shirt to make it brighter and highlight the bike, after realizing the previous version was a tad too dark.
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A 34-year old North Dakota mother faces multiple charges after allegedly driving her car at a group of children at a reported 55-60 mph before swerving away at the last minute, allegedly because the kids hid her son’s bicycle as a prank before returning it; she says she was only doing 35 to 40 mph, which does not make it better.
The arch-right Daily Caller reports that bicyclists berated bystanders tending to the father who was struck and killed by a bike rider while walking in New York’s Central Park. Which is something no one else seems to have reported, so take it with a grain of salt, if not the whole bag.
A Singapore man calls the police after a teen riding with a group of boys accidentally crashed into his bicycle and apparently didn’t apologize sufficiently. He then tells the group they’re “kind of pathetic,” to which one of the kids answered “thank you for the compliment.” I’ll leave it to you to decide which side belongs here.
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Volunteers with People’s Vision Zero once again embarrassed city officials by painting their own crosswalk where a 16-year old boy was killed by a driver in South LA last week, and his sister seriously injured. As we noted above, a city that can’t do basic things like install crosswalks will never be great, and barely be livable.
Jim sends word that Palos Verdes Drive South will be fucked up for sewer repair work until next February, which may block access to the “switchbacks” on PVD East.
LAist says ebikes are Orange County teens’ ticket to independence, but questions if they’re too dangerous — then actually takes the time to explain the legal classifications for ebikes, noting that only 12% of ebikes used by middle and high schools in Marin and San Mateo counties fit into the legal classification system. And no, that’s not data from Orange County, but there’s probably a correlation there somewhere, and the same goes for LA County beach cities.
The LA Times reports on All Kids on Bikes classes in the Inland Empire, with Rancho Cucamonga kindergarten kids learning how to ride in gym class.
Ventura County sheriff’s deputies are cracking down on bicycle and ebike violations in the Ojai Valley, as if the people on two wheels were somehow the biggest danger on the streets.
Road.cc says the phenomenon of Oakland’s scraper bikes continues. I saw my first scraper bike outside a Hollywood Target a few weeks back, although purists would argue it wasn’t a real scraper because it wasn’t in Oakland.
Mill Valley is building a citywide culture of bicycling by focusing efforts on getting elementary students at one school to bike to class, and measuring the results.
Horrible news from Sonoma County, where a woman’s body was discovered in a ditch eleven hours after a hit-and-run driver left her bicycle more than a mile from the crash site. And no, the detail about eleven hours isn’t in this Patch article, but the more detailed information is hidden behind the local newspapers’ paywalls.
She gets it. A Salt Lake City op-ed says bicycling deaths like the writer’s father’s aren’t anomalies, but rather, the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.
Iowa Democrats are calling the Republican candidate for governor a carpetbagger, after the man’s quickly deleted Strava account shows he actually lives across the border in Kansas.
A Boston woman suffered life-threatening injuries when she was struck by a bicyclist while walking near Boston University; the rider was also injured, but not as seriously.
The wacky New York Post says the city must rein in ebikes, arguing that ebikes should offer no speed advantage over regular bikes. Apparently forgetting that a skilled rider on fast bike can easily top 30 mph, which tops the maximum speed allowed by legal ebikes.
The honeymoon appears to be over for New York Mayor Mamdani, as Streetsblog contends he is allowing a street to be a fatality waiting to happen.
Two North Carolina men in their 40s were killed while sharing an ebike when they were struck by a 22-year old man; the driver was not arrested or cited, despite a history of five moving violations in three counties since 2022.
Electrek says a ticket issued to an 11-year old Florida boy for riding an illegal e-motorbike shows we don’t need more ebike laws, because the ones we already have are pretty good.
Momentum surprisingly offers a what appears to be a new story based on 2026 PeopleForBikes data highlighting ten North American cities quietly getting better for bicycling, including our own Long Beach.
The success of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge is reinvigorating historic neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, as bicyclists fill the streets, businesses boom and forgotten landmarks are being rediscovered.
A group of Toronto doctors, nurses and other front-line healthcare workers denounced the province’s move to rip out the city’s popular bike lanes, citing the risk of traffic violence.
A 69-year old Canadian man claimed the record as the oldest man to circumnavigate the earth by bicycle, riding 18,600 miles in 324 days in honor of his late wife.
If you build it, they will come. Gloomy Glasgow, Scotland saw a 74% jump in bicycling rates over just a two-year period after investing, and continuing to invest, in new bikeways.
Thousand’s of bicyclists turned out in Birmingham, England for a viral DJ-led drum and bass bike ride, saying it displayed the dangers bicyclists face in the city.
Life is cheap in the UK, where a 15-year old kid riding an illegal e-moto was ordered to pay just the equivalent of $652 after crashing into a 46-year old father riding a bicycle, leaving the victim hospitalized with life-changing injuries after eight full months.
Spain introduces new bicycling rules allowing bicyclists to take the primary position in the lane and requiring drivers to take more care passing bicycles; however, the law now requires all bike riders to wear a helmet under all circumstances.
An Indian travel website offers a slideshow of the world’s ten most beautiful bicycling routes, including our own PCH on the California coast, which only turns really deadly once it reaches Ventura County.
A man from Kazakhstan is 100 days into a 3,200-mile bicycle journey from the country’s capital to Australia.
Beijing opened a new 21-mile section of what will eventually form a nearly 30 mile greenway on both sides of the Qing River.
Outside profiles Brandon McNulty, who most Americans never heard of until he won the men’s world championship last week. And still haven’t.
It was a double victory for the US at the worlds, as American phenom Ashlin Barry became the first-ever Yank to win in the men’s U-23 race.
That feeling when rising gas prices lead a ’90s pop group to trade their tour bus for Lycra and bicycles. Your next bike could be a Bugatti, for a mere $27,000 — or you could buy your toddler a Tesla balance bike for just $225. Your old bike could be someone’s new prosthetic leg.
And it’s probably not the best idea to punch someone in the chest at a bike lane meeting and call her a “stupid cunt” when you’re an elected semi-city official.
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.
Oh, and fuck Putin.
For the fourth time in less than a week, someone riding a bicycle has been killed by a motorist in Southern California.
And for the third time, the victim was murdered by a hit-and-run driver. Because that’s the right way to describe a conscious decision to leave someone to die in the street, even if the law doesn’t agree.
According to the Lake Elsinore-Wildomar edition of Patch, the victim was riding in Homeland, California shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday when he was run over and killed by a heartless coward who fled the scene without stopping.
And no, I never heard of Homeland before, either.
The victim, identified as 45-year old Homeland resident Juan Holguin, was riding his bike on Leon Road at Queen Palm Drive when the driver of a Gray Mazda 3 plowed into him at an unknown speed, and apparently an unknown direction.
Witnesses immediately reported Holguin down in the roadway, and he was taken to Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley, where he died four hours later.
The suspect vehicle was found abandoned in a dirt alley approximately one-and-a-half miles from the crash scene with “damage consistent with the reported collision,” according to a CHP spokesperson, including visible “damage to the passenger side of the front windshield.”
There is a 35 mph speed limit on Leon Road, but the straight, wide-open roadway, just half block south of California Highway 74, is engineered to encourage speeding.
Anyone with information is urged to call the CHP Temecula office at 951/466-4300.
This is at least the 52nd bicycling fatality that I’m aware of in Southern California this year, and the sixth in Riverside County — the second in the county in just three-and-a-half days.
At least 17 of those SoCal deaths this year have been hit-and-runs.
My deepest sympathy and prayers for Juan Holguin and all of his loved ones.
I guess we’re going to ease back into this slowly.
I’m apparently still affected by the adverse reaction to the Moderna covid and flu shots last week. I had hoped to play catch-up today, and cover most if not all of what we missed last week.
But after falling asleep mid-sentence and running my laptop battery down to zero, it’s clear that I still don’t have my strength back — something I discovered after thinking I was okay on Saturday and nearly passing out at a WeHo dog event.
But at least I got to see a nice bakfiets someone rode to the dog park. Even the corgi stopped to check it out.
Due to the resulting time constraints, I’m going to be an asshole today and not take the time to look up who sent me what. So thank you for sending me stuff, even if I don’t credit you individually.
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I promised someone last week, before everything went to hell, that I would look into the death of man killed by a driver while riding an ebike in Arleta early in the morning of Sunday, September 13th.
The victim was struck by the SUV driver before 2 am in the 13000 block of Osborne Street.
A crowdfunding campaign posted by his brother has raised over $17,000 of the $20,000 goal to help pay for funeral expenses, describing in heartbreaking detail how much he loved, and was loved.
However, as we have discussed before, it’s difficult to determine whether a fallen ebike rider was on an electric bicycle or an electric motorcycle, since the police and the media can’t seem to tell one from another. And while any death is tragic, only the former are the subject of this site.
So unless I know for certain that the victim of a crash was riding a ped-assist bicycle, and not some other form of two-wheeled electric conveyance, I’m not including them in the already too high count of SoCal bicycling deaths.
And yes, even one is one too many.
So while my heart goes out to the family and loved ones of Oscar Adrian Lazaro, I won’t be adding his name to a 51 others who have lost their lives riding a bicycle in our deadly corner of the country.
But if anyone can convince me he was on a legal Class 1, 2 or 3 ebike, I’m more than willing to reconsider.
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Gracias por nada, Los Angeles.
Or rather, thanks for a whole 2.2 miles of new bike lanes installed in the last fiscal year, from June 2025 to June 2026. Except that’s lane miles — i.e., counting each side of the roadway separately — so we’re really talking about a whole one and one-tenth mile of net new bike lanes.
Streetsblog’s Joe Linton wrote earlier this month that the City of Los Angeles, not to be confused with the other 87 cities and various unincorporated areas that make up LA County, built a whopping 7.5 miles of new bike lanes. But at the same time, the city removed 5.3 miles of already existing bike lanes, resulting in the wholly underwhelming 2.2-mile net total.
They also improved a whole 14.1 miles of existing bike lanes, which usually translates to adding a row white plastic bendie posts and calling it protected, as if those wands will somehow magically ward off a couple tons of ballistic steel and glass.
Which is like trading the family cow for a handful of magic beans. I mean, your family does have a cow, right?
And people wonder why I’m voting for Nithya Raman, if only because she’s not Karen Bass — the current mayor who not only supervised the non-building of bike lanes for the last three-and-a-half years, but also personally intervened to keep Forest Lawn Drive deadly.
Not to mention my current state Assemblymember, who voted to make it virtually illegal to fix the deadly street after a more than $300,000 lobbying campaign on behalf of Forest Lawn and Mt. Sinai cemeteries, in what can only be seen as a blatant attempt to drive more business.
Pun intended.
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Speaking of things that suck, as we seem to be this morning, yet another person traversing the county without benefit of a motor vehicle was killed by a driver before they could reach the other coast.
According to the New York Times, 24-year old Norwegian Joachim Lanham was killed by a driver in Kansas while attempting to rollerblade from Los Angeles to New York.
Lanham was 22 days into his journey when he was apparently run down by an 82-year old woman, once again raising the question of what the hell someone that old was doing behind the wheel. Except that in many, if not most cases, auto-centetric road designs and the lack of viable options doesn’t give them any other choice.
I’m just tired of people coming to this country on a tourist visa, and being sent home in a box.
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If you’ve been hanging around this site for awhile, you’ve probably seen my complaints that, despite common perceptions, bike helmets aren’t the life-saving equivalent of seat belts and air bags, and do little to protect again high-speed crashes or injuries to other parts of the body.
However, I may be forced to reconsider their utility, after a woman in Philadelphia used her bike helmet to stop a sexual assault.
No word on what the man actually did, or attempted to do. But the 63-year old woman responded by whacking the guy with her bike helmet — and continued to chase after him, yelling and smacking him with it, until a stranger intervened to protect her.
And him, apparently.
One more reason you should always have a helmet handy, evidently.
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Metro Bike says “Westward ho!” by expanding service between West Los Angeles and DTLA, as well as Downtown Los Angeles southward to the Rail-to-Rail Active Transportation Corridor.
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Kyle writes to say that Bike Streets is launching in Torrance.
They’re looking for 20 people willing to log every ride with Bike Streets and help build a Low-Stress Torrance Bike Map; you can sign up at bikestreets.com/join.
According to Kyle’s email,
Bike Streets takes a practical “Network First” approach to making biking safer and more accessible.
Instead of waiting years for individual bike lanes to be designed and funded, Bike Streets helps communities:
• Map the safest, lowest-stress streets and paths that already exist
• Connect those routes into a usable bike network
• Identify dangerous intersections and missing links that prevent the network from working
• Focus resources on fixing those critical gaps
• Start with practical, lower-cost improvements while working toward permanent infrastructureThe goal is to create a connected network that people can use now, and then continually improve it over time.
I think this is an approach worth learning about for anyone interested in making it easier and safer for kids and families to bike around their communities.
He says the project began with a podcast video from Avi Stopper of Strong Towns.
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A Bay Area TV station says a new bike trail offers a safer way to ride into Sausalito.
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A New England-based law firm forwarded their guide to safer electric transportation, covering everything from e-cars to ebikes, electric scooters and hoverboards, for whatever it’s worth.
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A 41-year old father of two died four days after he was struck by a speeding 32-year old bicyclist while walking in New York’s Central Park.
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Hoodline reports the LA Board of Public Works is set to approve an $84 million contract for a 2.9-mile segment of the Los Angeles River bike through Reseda, but will abandon planned under-crossings in order to finish in time for the 2028 Olympics, forcing riders to cross major streets.
Long Beach, like her larger neighbor to the north, met its target year for eliminating traffic deaths in abject failure, with 35 traffic deaths already this year, including six in just 18 days this month.
Speaking of Hoodline, nice to see their Jake Rodriguez reads this site, and thanks for citing me in his article about the fatal Paramount hit-and-run.
Construction has started on a bridge extending San Diego’s Fenton Parkway over the San Diego River in Mission Valley, providing bicyclists, pedestrians and yes, motor vehicle drivers with a safe crossing during high-water events.
Sad news from San Jose, where a 32-year old woman was killed by a driver while riding her bike.
You can all sleep better tonight, knowing the NTSB, aka National Transportation Safety Board, is on the case of the Milligan University massacre. On the other hand, it’s not comforting to know that Tennessee thinks a bicycling route with a 55 mph speed limit is somehow okay.
New protected bike lanes in Queens NY are the physical benefit of New York’s congestion pricing tolls.
A Baton Rouge, Louisiana group is still riding together, ten years after it was started by a 45-year old man to uplift the community.
Having obviously run out of things to talk about, Momentum continues recycling old articles, in this case linking to a 16-month old Japanese study showing that riding a bicycle can help people over 60 live independently. In other breaking news, researchers have confirmed that ursine creatures do, in fact, defecate in the woods.
In a win that shocked the world, the men’s elite cycling world title went to none other than Brandon McNulty, the 28-year old journeyman becoming the first American rider to take the title since Lance Armstrong in 1993, and Greg LeMond in 1983 and 1989; McNulty won by a 52-second margin in a two-lap solo breakaway.
Aussie Michael Matthews finished second in the race behind McNulty, with Mathieu van der Poel taking bronze.
The women’s world’s were marked by a massive 15-rider crash that changed the outcome of the race; fortunately, the two most seriously injured riders were showing marked improvement a day later.
Dutch cyclist Demi Vollering may have won may have won the rainbow jersey at the Road World Championships, but she was still sanctioned with a 1000 CHF fine — the equivalent of roughly $1,200 — a 25-point deduction in UCI rankings, and a yellow card for “using a non-compliant position or point of support on the bicycle.”
A 32-year old man documented his ride in the Race Across America, better known as RAAM, finishing the more than 3,000 race in 11 days, 23 hours and 3 minutes in a tribute to his father, who is suffering from prostate cancer; his film The Road to Why is now available on Apple TV and Amazon.
Twenty-three-year old Afghan cyclist Fariba Hashimi won silver in the Asian Games, after having to disguise herself as a man in order to train without abuse in the ultra-conservative country.
A 25-year-old Aussie cyclist and coach is back racing just two years after a life-saving heart transplant.
Speaking of the worlds, the masseur for the Slovakian team had to shave his legs and compete in the race, after none of the country’s team members were physically able to race; he made it 100 km — 62 miles — before dropping out.
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.
Oh, and fuck Putin.
