So that’s where it’s all going.
The Los Angeles City Controller’s office has developed a dashboard allowing you to examine where each city department stands in relation to the budget, including how much has been spent, and how much remains.
For instance, 44% of the city transportation budget for the ’25-’26 fiscal year has already been spent, most of which has gone into salaries for city employees.
And something tells me they’re not working on bicycles.
Never mind that the entire transportation budget is roughly 11% of what the city spends on police alone.
It’s worth taking some time to check it out.
Because it’s your money.
Actual photo of Los Angeles officials spending your tax money by MART PRODUCTION from Pexels.
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True then. True now.
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Not only that, but one of them looks like a corgi.
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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.
In a brilliant example of cost effectiveness, the leadership of Medford, Oregon voted to rip out a road diet and two-way protected bike lane, spending $1 million to return the road to the previous layout — and another half million to repay a state grant to do the original work.
No bias here. A Killarney, Ireland website is up in arms after spotting a group of bicyclists riding in the street next to a new $4 million curb-level bike lane, saying “If you build it, they will come… or maybe not.” Except a group ride of a dozen or so fast-moving bicyclists is exactly what you don’t want in a bike lane, which should be used by a) fewer bike riders at once, and b) slower bike riders.
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Local
An ebike rider was hospitalized in critical condition after riding out of an A Line train car at a high rate of speed, and falling off the elevated Allen Station in Pasadena.
State
A Fallbrook kid was struck by a driver while riding their bike and knocked completely under the vehicle, then just got back up and rode their bike home before first responders even got to the crash site; sheriff’s deputies found him at home, and paramedics took him to the hospital.
The owner of a downtown San Diego bike shop is still struggling to recover, weeks after burglars escaped with more than $25,000 worth of merchandise.
National
Bicycling drops their paywall to promote a handful of products they think will make your rides more fun, or at least make them a few bucks if you buy them. The bubblegum pink inner tube is kinda fun, but the only way anyone will ever see it is if you’re fixing a flat, which is not so much.
Velo says AI will make you faster on your bike, but not the way you think. Especially if you leave the damn thing at home, whatever device you keep it in, and just ride your bike without the extra weight and distraction.
Led by high school students, Washington State advocacy groups backed a proposal to keep the state’s three-tier ebike definitions, while adding a clear distinction between ebikes and electric motorbikes.
A Joliet, Illinois man is suing the city for more than 50 grand, plus medical expenses, after he rode his bicycle into a giant hole in the road without warning, alleging the city knew about the pothole and did nothing to fix it.
An Illinois man is riding his bike across the US, 50 year’s after he was one of 2,000 people who took part in the Bikecentennial, which involved riding 4,200 miles across the US to mark the bicentennial.
Road.cc’s ebiketips website says New Jersey’s draconian new ebike law will remove a viable form of clean transportation off the road.
Richmond, Virginia is moving forward with plans to replace a 113-year old bridge, even as planning commissioners got an earful about the lack of protection for proposed bike lanes.
Police in Savannah, Georgia, have made an arrest in the hit-and-run death of the city’s beloved Flag Man, known for riding his bike with a giant flag, nine months after he was killed while riding his bicycle. Seriously, if you can’t see someone on a bicycle with a giant flag on a flag pole, you’re driving with your eyes closed.
International
Filmmaker Lee Donaldson makes a pitstop at the Cyclist podcast to discuss his upcoming documentary 525: The Unstoppable Eddy Merckx.
Life is cheap in Nova Scotia, where a drunken hit-and-run driver who killed a 10-year old girl was granted a full parole after just under a year and a half behind bars, less than a third of his four and a half year sentence.
Off.Road.cc says the 1990s was the golden era of British mountain biking.
Netflix is developing a documentary series about the death of Tony Parsons, who disappeared on a Scottish fundraising ride only to be discovered years later when a farmer confessed to his girlfriend that he killed Parsons while driving drunk, and with his twin brother, hid Parson’s body in a peat bog; they were sentenced to 12 years and 5 years behind bars, respectively. The moral of this story: don’t tell your girlfriend about the bodies.
Competitive Cycling
Pro cyclists share their best hacks, habits and kit tweaks to make it through the worst of the winter months.
Finally…
That feeling when your epic ride goes from Boring to Dull. Your next ebike could be a computer on two wheels.
And aren’t drop bars supposed to, you know, drop?
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.
Oh, and fuck Putin.
