LADOT wants your input on a proposal to install rush hour bus lanes and other safety improvements on deadly Lincoln Blvd south of the Santa Monica border, which could be used for parking and biking at other hours.
Since this one is in Councilmember Mike Bonin’s district, it might actually happen; he’s one of the few friends traffic safety advocates have left on the city council.
Although maybe we’d be better served by a shared bus and bike lane during rush hour that converts to a floating bike lane during off hours.
Thanks to Kent Strumpell for the heads-up.
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Anger is boiling over in LA’s fifth council district, as a new effort to recall Paul Koretz gets underway.
Today, Uplift Melrose’s $30M grant application was supposed to be submitted to the state, but @paulkoretzcd5 had other plans. So today, we announce https://t.co/YaJOHiObBC. Time’s up, Paul.
— Recall Koretz (@RecallKoretz) September 15, 2020
If I still lived in the district I called home for a quarter of a century, I’d be the first to sign the petition.
The only real question is what took so long?
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Maybe they should wear helmets.
A new survey says you’re more likely to get hurt playing golf than you are riding a bike. (Scroll down if the story doesn’t load correctly.)
Unless, like me, you wouldn’t be caught dead on a golf course.
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When is a bike lane not a bike lane?
When it’s filled with patrol cars from cops grabbing lunch.
Three LAPD SUVs in the 7th Street bike lane while six cops order food in the custom burger joint. #SafeStreetsNow pic.twitter.com/9PglojPvmX
— Sean Meredith (@seanmeredith) September 17, 2020
Thanks to Erik Griswold for the tip.
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Bike Angeles takes you riding on Latigo Canyon, calling it the most essential climb in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Thanks to Zachary Rynew for the heads-up.
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The only thing worse than a near miss is a pass that doesn’t.
Miss, that is.
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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes is all too real.
Life is cheap in the UK, where a road raging English farmer walked without a single day behind bars for intentionally slamming into a bike rider in reverse.
No bias here. British business owners insist that popup bike lanes are a pain in the backside and an accident waiting to happen.
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Local
London and Long Beach based Zwift is now a one billion dollar company.
The replacement for the Gerald Desmond Bridge in the Port of Long Beach is set to open next month, including the long awaited Mark Bixby bike lanes.
State
San Jose develops an innovative plan to improve safety on a pair of three lane one-way streets by installing a frontage lane to keep cars out of a curb protected bike lane, along with protected intersections.
Sunnyvale is dropping the speed limit on El Camino Real to 35 mph to match the speed in other nearby cities, while considering a plan to add bike lanes.
The US Bicycling Hall of Fame in Davis unveils this year’s inductees.
National
Next City calls freight delivery the forgotten part of Vision Zero, saying streets need to be designed so delivery vehicles can operate safely in mixed traffic. Or better yet, replace delivery trucks and vans with more efficient ebikes. Although in Los Angeles, it’s Vision Zero itself that’s been forgotten.
Spin looks at the success of Slow Streets programs around the US.
Seattle’s Cascade Bicycle Club maps out routes into the city from West Seattle. Something we could use here in LA to navigate the city’s fractured bikeways.
Bike riders are discovering the joys of biking on gravel in Texas, where there’s lots of it.
Busted for Biking While Black at just ten years old. Michelle Obama — yes, that Michelle Obama — tells the story of how her own brother was stopped by a pair of Chicago cops who refused to believe the bike he was riding belonged him.
Speaking of Chicago, the police are finally releasing bicycles that were seized during the Black Lives Matter protests earlier this year. But not in the same condition they were in when they seized.
Bike trails to check out the fall foliage for your next trip to the Big Apple.
The brother of a Brooklyn assistant DA who was killed in a collision while riding her bike last week says the city failed her, and all new bike riders.
Nice story about a writer’s friendship with a noted Florida chef, and tracking down the bespoke bike he passed along. As usual, you can read it on Yahoo if you’re blocked out by Bicycling’s paywall.
International
Axios traces the timeline of the coronavirus bike boom, saying it remains to be seen if it’s a long-term trend that will outlive the virus itself.
Cycling News offers advice on how to safely lock-up your bike to help ensure it’s still there when you get back.
Cycling Weekly says it’s time to up your sock game.
A 155-year old British sports publication talks with American mom Denise Mueller-Korenek, the world’s fastest assisted bicyclist, clocked at just this side of an incredible 184 mph.
A woman in the UK credits the Busby app with saving her life when she was knocked unconscious after a driver forced her bike off the road.
Dutch bikemaker Van Moof raises $40 million to further expand worldwide, as it sets its sites on an IPO.
Turkey wants to integrate bicycles into the country’s transportation network.
Competitive Cycling
Yesterday’s stage of the Tour de France ended with a nail-biting attack on the on the Col de la Loze.
Team USA profiles Sepp Kuss as he works to keep Slovenian cyclist Primož Roglič in yellow.
Fans aren’t exactly social distancing at the Tour, as fellow Slovenian Tadej Pogačar had to push a fan out of the way as he neared the summit.
The only Black bike rider in this year’s Tour says he hasn’t seen a lot of solidarity and support on the pro tour.
Somehow, cycling is never far from doping in the news, as the leaders of a massive blood doping ring involving pro cyclists and Nordic athletes went on trial yesterday.
Finally…
That feeling when you design a bike that shouldn’t work, yet somehow it does. Still shaving his legs after 29 years and 1,450 twin blade cartridges.
And who doesn’t want to see a bunny on a bicycle?
Beatrix Potter, Four rabbits on bicycles, 1895 #womensart pic.twitter.com/QKdLvvyqMS
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) September 16, 2020
Thanks to Megan Lynch for this one.
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And wear a mask, already.
