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NY congestion pricing works while LA keeps studying…and studying, and making a moral commitment to human life

January 6, 2026 / / No comments

Congestion pricing works.

Despite predictions that it would make Manhattan a ghost town, after a full year in place, New York’s congestion pricing is working according to plan.

The program, which charges $9 a car for each trip into the city’s Central Business District, has raised $700 million in tolls in its first year. The money has gone to support transit, including upgrades to subway lines and station, as well as Metro bus lines.

At the same time, vehicle entries into the district have dropped, although the void was quickly filled by ride-hailing vehicles. Foot traffic is up. Pollution levels have dropped across all five boroughs, bus speeds have increased slightly, and both collisions and traffic injuries dropped.

As Charles Komanoff put it in Vital City,

Before the first-in-the-nation plan went into effect on Jan. 5, 2025, proponents promised that the policy would bring entrenched Manhattan gridlock to heel, while foes predicted far-reaching economic and environmental harm. Gov. Kathy Hochul, fearing electoral consequences, delayed its implementation. The then-incoming Trump administration promised to kill the program in the crib…

But, contra the sky-will-fall predictions, congestion pricing is producing no noticeable social injury. Manhattan businesses haven’t fled. The city’s economy hasn’t contracted. Putative spillover areas like the South Bronx aren’t seeing more trucks and dirtier air. Mirabile dictu: the birth of a major public policy initiative has been attended by little if any disruption.

Those same benefits could accrue right here in Los Angeles, including the possibility of free transit, if Metro hadn’t backed down on this city’s congestion pricing proposal.

Instead, we did what LA does best, conducting yet another study instead of actually doing anything.

That was five years ago.

It will be another two years before we can expect it to be completed. If ever.

Maybe someone can explain why it takes seven full years to conduct one damn study.

But even then, if and when they actually complete the study, does anyone really believe the spineless Metro board will somehow find the courage to stand up to LA’s infamous angry drivers.

And if you thought the whole Playa del Rey road diet fiasco pissed local drivers off, just wait until they have to pay a toll to enter certain parts of the city or use specific roadways.

Thanks to Megan for the video. 

Photo by Kaboompics from Pexels. 

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He gets it.

The VP of the Napa County Bicycle Coalition Board of Directors considers Vision Zero, and choosing safety over speed and convenience.

Some may dismiss Vision Zero as being uniquely achievable in Europe given different cultures. But here in the U.S., Hoboken, New Jersey — a city of almost 60,000 with a Vision Zero approach — has recently had a seven-year streak with literally zero traffic fatalities.

And Hoboken is no outlier; many U.S. jurisdictions have adopted Vision Zero policies. Napa County happens to be one of them. But as noted in a recent Washington Post investigation, Vision Zero policies are meaningless without moral commitment to making human life paramount and without commensurate political and economic investment in proven life-saving infrastructure and systems.

Which is exactly why it failed so miserably here in Los Angeles, where traffic deaths are higher now than they ten eleven years ago when it became official city policy.

Never mind that traffic deaths were finally supposed to be a thing of the past over a year ago. Or that the most recent Vision Zero news on the city’s website is nearly three years old.

There was no moral commitment from our elected leaders, let alone the political and economic investment necessary to make it work.

Or the courage to actually implement it

So we continue to sacrifice innocent lives to the almighty motor vehicle god.

And will, for the foreseeable future.

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A horrific story from Kansas, where a 47-year old man faces charges in two separate states after leading police to the body of a 13-year old boy last month.

The boy was found dumped at the bottom of a steep Missouri ravine, a day after he had disappeared while riding his bike to a neighbor’s home half an hour away in Kansas.

An autopsy showed he had died of dog bites.

The suspect faces a charge of abandoning a corpse in Missouri, and interfering with law enforcement, criminal desecration, and allowing a vicious dog to run at large in Kansas.

Sadly, it’s not hard to read between the lines.

Especially if you’ve ever been chased by an angry dog.

Let alone caught by one.

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Rush hour looks a little different in the Netherlands.

And not just because of the snow.

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

— BicycleDutch (@bicycledutch.bsky.social) 2026-01-05T07:26:33.292Z

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This is why you don’t park in bike lanes.

I just wish they’d do that here.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

A writer for Road.cc says it may be a new year, but Britain’s Daily Mail is still trotting out the same old “anti-cycling ragebait,” accusing riders of routinely breaking a pathway’s 12 mph speed limit. Although it beats being accused of being repulsive to women because of your bikewear.

But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.

Yesterday, we mentioned that London bike riders caught running red lights will have the option of paying the equivalent of a $67 fine or watching a video of a bike rider getting hit by a bus after jumping one; today we learned that the video is of a woman who voluntarily agreed to share it as a warning to others.

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Local 

In an apparent example of legal redundancy, Manhattan Beach now requires any ebikes ridden in the city to have a rear reflector or flashing red light, something that is already required under state law. Never mind that only the state has the legal authority to regulate vehicle equipment, including for bicycles, motorbikes — and yes, ebikes.

 

State

Sad news from Bakersfield, where a 44-year old woman was killed by a driver while riding her bicycle on a highway offramp; police excused the driver by blaming poor lighting and the position of the victim on the roadway.

More bad news, this time from San Jose, where a man died more than two weeks after he was struck by a driver while riding an ebike.

Still more sad news comes from Vallejo, where a man was killed when he somehow lost control and crashed his bicycle; police said there didn’t appear to be any other vehicles involved. Although there’s all kinds of things that can make someone lose control of a bike, from potholes and loose gravel to a too-close pass from a distracted driver. 

 

National

Cycling Weekly marks the passing of Cannondale founder Joe Montgomery, crediting him with changing the bicycle industry by introducing aluminum tubing — along with bankrupting the company with an ill-advised entry into motocross. Although I want to know more about that mid-’90s rollerblade bike.

 

International

A writer for Bike Radar lists ten things he wished he know when he started riding, so you can avoid making the same mistakes. Although in retrospect, I wish I’d skipped the carbon bike and stuck with steel if I couldn’t afford Ti.

Bike theft is virtually legal at UK rail stations, where just 0.5% of bike thefts ever resulted in charges.

Former pro cyclist Marius du Preez plans a 4,300-mile solo bike trip across Africa to raise funds for vulnerable children, camping under the stars amid “lions, leopards, hyenas and elephants.”

A Vietnamese architect says the country should follow the example of bike-friendly Singapore, and not settle for a single bike lane in Ho Chi Minh City.

A 27-year old Aussie man is suing the former premier of Victoria province for defamation, as well as ongoing injuries, a dozen years after he was struck by the ex-premier’s wife while riding a bike; she claimed he crashed into her car after she came to a complete stop, which seems kinda unbelievable given the extent of his injuries and the damage to her windshield.

 

Competitive Cycling

It seems like the pro cycling season just ended last week, yet the WorldTour is already ready to kick off the 2026 season with the Tour Down Under on January 20th through the 25th.

 

Finally…

That feeling when your local bikeway turns into a “raised snake of tarmac goo.” How to scam bikemakers out of $50,000 worth of bikes by pretending to be a YouTube influencer.

And maybe it can be a real crosswalk after it graduates.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Why this isn’t e-BikinginLA, New York’s new mayor puts his money where his bike is, and new San Diego Fondo this June

January 5, 2026 / / 7 comments
Welcome back!
And thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who donated to the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive!

I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am to all those who gave this year to support this humble site.

So thanks to John, Norwood, Mary, Robert, Jim and Glenn for their generous donations in the final days of the fund drive to help keep all the best bike news and advocacy coming your way every day.

In the end, more than 60 people opened their hearts and wallets to donate this year, falling just just a few hundred short of breaking that elusive $5,000 barrier for the first time — far more than I expected after what was such a difficult year for so many of us.

Now the holidays are finally over, and I’m tanned, rested — or maybe rusted after all this rain — and ready to get back to work.

And hey, happy new year! Let’s hope it’s a better one for all of us. 

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Let’s start with a recent email exchange with someone who seemed to think I write too much about ebikes, suggesting I should change the name of the site to e-BikinginLA.

He warned that things would look a lot different to if I was a parent riding a “real bicycle” with child passenger, and then someone zoomed by in the curb lane or on the sidewalk at 28 mph.

This was my response, which I’m sharing to clarify where I stand on the great ebike debate.

I write about ebikes because that’s what’s in the news these days, just like I’ve written about any number of things that have been in the news over the years.

I’m not a fan of high-speed, throttle-controlled ebikes, which I believe should be recategorized as motorbikes and require a license to operate. I do like ped-assist ebikes with a max speed of 20 mph, simply because they expand the potential for bicycling from the proverbial “young and healthy” we always hear about, to virtually everyone. And provide the potential to trade a car for a bicycle for countless people who might not otherwise even consider it.

I also believe every bicycle should be ridden within the limits of the law whenever practical, which would generally prohibit passing on the inside or riding on the sidewalk at an excessive speed. Everyone should ride in a safe and sane manner, regardless of how their bike may be powered. And no one should ever have a sense of entitlement on the streets, whether walking, biking or driving.

Personally, I’d like to have an e-cargo bike just so I can bike to Costco or the hardware store, and take my service dog with me wherever I go, which doesn’t exactly work on my 18-speed racing bike. However, I’ve never actually ridden one yet, after being a lifelong roadie, and don’t know if I’d really like it or not.

Meanwhile, on a related subject, The New York Daily News says the city could end its “vicious cycle” with high-speed ebikes by requiring them to be licensed and insured as mo-peds, like they do in the Netherlands.

But apparently, they don’t want you to read it, because the editorial is locked behind a paywall for subscribers only.

And a Bay Area woman says she’s all for ebikes, and the problems everyone seems to be complaining about are caused by people on electric motorbikes, not Class 2 ebikes like hers.

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It didn’t take long for New York’s new mayor to demonstrate his transportation bona fides.

Just days after Mayor Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office, he announced a Complete Streets makeover of McGuinness Boulevard, including parking-protected bike lanes the full length of the corridor, considered a key bicycling route connecting Brooklyn and Queens.

The project was killed by the previous administration following a corruption scandal, when a top aide to former Mayor Eric Adams accepted “a relatively small sum of money” and the promise of a speaking role on a TV series to kill the project.

Thanks to Megan for the heads-up.

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Oceanside bike lawyer and BikinginLA sponsor Richard Duquette is sponsoring the Giro di San Diego Gran Fondo this June, complete with cash prizes and KOM kits.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

A Cathedral City man can be grateful a local driver is a bad shot, after a Palm Springs man is accused of deliberately hitting a man on a bicycle with his car following an argument between the two men, then making a U-turn to fire off a gunshot at the 40-year old victim before fleeing; 47-year old John Nicholas Duran was arrested later in Cathedral City, and faces charges of attempted homicide and assault with a deadly weapon.

But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.

A Florida man was knocked off his bicycle by the cops while carrying a sackful of stolen mail, after a year of posing as a mail carrier to break into people’s mailboxes. Although riding his route on a bicycle should have been a dead giveaway wasn’t a real mail carrier.

Bicyclists in London will now have the option of paying a fine equivalent to $67 if they’re caught running a red light, or watching video of a red-light running bike rider who was in a coma after he was hit by a bus driver. Personally, I’d rather just pay the fine.

Police in the UK are looking for a 20-something road-raging ebike rider accused of threatening and racially abusing a van driver, after being told he was riding too close to the van with no lights on his bike.

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Local 

Streetsblog’s Joe Linton offers his predictions for the coming year, including a 50% drop in new bike lanes in Los Angeles, as the city puts on the brakes to avoid complying with Measure HLA and ADA-compliant curb cuts.

Burbank has closed a section of the Channel Bike Path between Verdugo and Providencia avenues for an undetermined period to conduct repairs.

San Pedro’s Bike Palace is now boarded up after more than 50 years as a local mainstay, while the owners deal with the aftermath of a devastating pre-Christmas fire; a crowdfunding page has raised more than $62,000 to help the rebuilding efforts. Unfortunately, the Daily Breeze story in the first link may be hidden behind a paywall, so you’re on your own if they block you.

I want to be like him when I grow up. A 79-year old Long Beach man rode his bike every day for more than 18 years, through an appendectomy and the death of his wife, going so far as to pay a man 20 bucks to borrow a kid’s bike after attending the Kentucky Derby.

 

State

Sad news from Fremont, where someone riding a bicycle was killed when a semi driver turned into a driveway in front of the victim. Although someone should tell NBC Bay Area that they might want to at least mention the driver, because the damn truck didn’t do it on its own.

The bikelash is real. San Francisco’s transportation pendulum appears to be swinging back in favor of motorists, as the people on four wheels claw back their political power.

 

National

A Las Vegas writer says the city could be safer for biking and walking if it just invested the same effort into building paved trails as it does for stadiums.

An 18-year old Utah man rode his bicycle 14,000 miles from Morocco to Singapore in five months. At that age, I was happy just to drive across the state line to buy booze. 

Colorado’s state ebike tax credit will be cut in half this year, dropping from $450 to just $225, as bike shop owners understandably question whether that will result in a drop in sales.

For the second time in just two weeks, a Texas driver ran down two people riding their bikes, this time in Houston, killing one person and critically injuring the other. But at least the driver stuck around this time.

A 73-year old man was charged with aggravated vehicular homicide for killing a 44-year old Toledo, Ohio man as he was waiting on his bicycle at a red light, running him down from behind before fleeing the scene. The next time someone asks you why so many bike riders run red lights, remind them about cases like this. 

Tennessee drivers will now be expected to know bicycle hand signals as part of the driver’s test. Although they probably already understand the most common one. 

New York’s street safety efforts seem to be paying off, after 2024 was the safest year on city streets since they began keeping stats 116 years ago.

A 40-year old man from El Cajon, California has been charged in the hit-and-run death of a 49-year old man riding an ebike in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, after spending three days on the run.

New Orleans is the latest city to offer a rebate up to $1,200 to buy a new ebike. Which compares favorably to the $0 offered by Los Angeles.

A 20-year old hit-and-run driver in Louisiana also faces a vehicular homicide count, among other charges, after the 64-year old bike-riding man he ran down while allegedly driving drunk died in the hospital a day later.

Once again, an advocate for safer streets was killed while riding his bike, this time when a Macon, Georgia man was run down from behind by a 73-year old woman, who claims she didn’t see him before the crash — yet police still blamed the victim for simply riding in the roadway, instead of on the shoulder, and not yielding to traffic.

Sad news from Florida, where Joe Montgomery died of apparent heart trouble, 55-year after he founded Cannondale above a Connecticut pickle factory, naming the bikemaker after a nearby train station; he was 86.

 

International

Momentum offers their resolutions for a “very bicycle new year,” including embarking on more aimless, social bike rides, and always make bicycling the first choice.

British Columbia bike riders say winter weather doesn’t stop them, but “snow-packed bike lanes and impatient drivers” can.

Bicycling has hit an all-time high in Flanders, with an increase of 40,000 bicycle trips per day since 2022 in the Dutch-speaking region of northern Belgium.

Take a bicycle tour of Transylvania. But maybe wear a garlic necklace just to be safe. 

Over 1,000 people turned out in Vadodara, India on Sunday for the 55th annual Fit India Sundays on Cycle, just one of the 5,000 bike events held across the country yesterday.

A Zambian woman says the gift of a Buffalo bike from World Bicycle Relief has allowed her to double the profits from her small shop, and help her children dream of a better future.

Bicycling has become a hugely popular form of recreation in China, accounting for a whopping $42.9 billion in bike sales in 2024.

Next time you find yourself in Osaka, Japan, make plans to visit the Shimano Bicycle Museum, where you’ll find a century of exclusive bicycling history from the earliest Safety Bikes, to a rain-proof electric trike and a five-seat racing bike.

 

Competitive Cycling

British Olympic cyclist Sir Chris Hoy made his first appearance just weeks after suffering a severe leg injury in a mountain biking crash, hobbling out on crutches to present a trophy to the winner of the World Darts Championship.

Double Olympic medalist Wout van Aert had surgery to repair a fracture and a sprained ankle after crashing on a snowy ‘cross course.

A Rwandan website considers the role a mother played in the rise of her daughter in junior cycling.

 

Finally…

Who needs an ebike when you’ve got an exoskeleton? Or a camper van when you’ve got a postal ebike?

And doing the Stranger Things bike thing, without that whole downer Upside Down thing.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Road rage driver shoots at Italian cycling team, jerk blows vape at ‘cross racer, and LAPD still keeping us all in the dark

December 23, 2025 / / One comment
Day 357 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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It’s the last 2 days of the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive!

Thanks to Ed for his generous support to help keep all the best bike news and advocacy coming your way every day!

But time is quickly running out, with just three two short days left to give.

So what the hell are you waiting for?

Just stop what you’re doing, and donate right now with just a few clicks through PayPal or Venmo, or via Zelle to ted@bikinginla.com using the banking app on your smartphone.

Give now!!!

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Good grief.

As if punishment passes and brake checks weren’t bad enough, an apparent Italian road rage driver pulled out a gun and fired off two shots at a local bike team on a training ride.

Although his marksmanship left something to be desired, thankfully.

According to Road.cc,

The shocking attack – which miraculous resulted in no injuries – took place as members of the S.C. Padovani Polo Cherry Bank team, which races in cycling’s Continental third tier, were training on the SS12 road just outside Dolcè, near Lake Garda in northern Italy on Saturday morning, as part of their pre-Christmas training camp.

Footage of the incident, shared by the team on social media, shows a BMW driver pull up alongside the seven riders as they navigate the twisting road, located in Italy’s Val d’Adige district.

According to the squad, the motorist then rolled down his window and produced a gun, before firing two shots at the cyclists. In the footage, one of the riders can be seen ducking as a shot appears to be fired. The motorist then drives off into the distance.

Unfortunately, I can’t seem to embed the video, so you’ll have to click through to see it.

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Not quite on the same level, but still demonstrating an extreme degree of assholery, is this post Megan forwarded from Mastadon, with some jerk blowing his vape pollution directly into the face of a ‘cross racer.

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The new Golden State Report news site, founded by former LA Times Opinion writers, takes a look at something we’ve complained about all year — the LAPD’s refusal to release any information about traffic deaths.

Or any crime data, at all.

We’ve gone from open city data under former Mayor Eric Garcetti, to a near total statistical blackout under Mayor Bass and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell.

The dearth of data hinders transparency, and means members of the public have no real sense of how well crime suppression is working at the neighborhood level. They have no idea, for example, if their neighborhood is experiencing a month to month or year to year rise in burglaries or car break-ins, information they could use to demand action from their senior lead officer or help from their local council office.

It’s not just crime, either — the LAPD’s traffic collision dataset stopped updating earlier this year. While Crosstown was previously able to break down traffic deaths by neighborhood — downtown, Sun Valley and Manchester Square topped the list of fatalities in 2023 — now that can’t happen.

This is problematic in a city where vehicular deaths exceed homicides, and as Golden State just noted, the Vision Zero effort to eliminate auto-related fatalities has been an abject failure. With functioning data we could detail which neighborhoods record the most pedestrians struck, or where the highest number of DUIs occur.

Not only is it impossible to break down traffic deaths by neighborhood, we now have no idea how many people have been killed on our streets, regardless of whether they were walking, biking or driving.

Vision Zero has long been a punchline in this city. But it’s even more ridiculous, and worthless, when city officials can’t or won’t tell us what’s happening on our own streets.

It’s worth giving the whole story a read.

Even if they’re a lot more forgiving than I am, assuming the problem stems from a switch in data systems, rather than a deliberate attempt to keep us in the dark.

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Bike Portland demonstrates that even good infrastructure is no match for bad drivers.

Because every driver is a bad driver sometimes. And some drivers are bad drivers all the time.

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As we’ve said before, we’re not the only ones trying to raise funds before the year end, although we are the only one shamelessly exploiting a cute spokescorgi to do it.

In addition to Streetsblog LA, the East Side Rider Bike Club is trying to raise funds; no bike group does more with less to benefit their entire community in ways that go far beyond just bicycles.

And BikeLA, nee Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, is raising funds as well.

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‘Tis the season.

Former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Tyrone Goodson hosted his 11th annual bike giveaway, passing out more than one hundred bicycles and toys to kids in Ocala, Florida.

An Arkansas Stop the Violence group is working to deliver 500 bikes to kids across the state during their annual holiday bicycle drive.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

As we keep saying, the problem isn’t people on ped-assist bicycles, it’s people on bikes like the one seized by cops Key Biscayne, Florida, that was illegally modified to go 100 mph. Something tells me the rider wasn’t pedaling to go that fast, either. 

No bias here. Residents of a London borough are calling for a total ban on bikes in local parks, after a man had his ticket for exceeding the 12 mph speed limit in the park rescinded by pointing out that a) the limit is too low, b) the limit isn’t posted, and c) most bicycles don’t come with speedometers; again, riders point out that the problem isn’t people on bicycles, but the ones riding illegal electric motorbikes.

But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.

“Britain’s angriest cyclist” was sentenced to six weeks behind bars for a road rage incident that violated his probation for yet another road rage incident; in the most recent case, he went off at a woman walking her baby on a beachfront path after he nearly hit a dog that was running off leash, while he was already on probation for pounding on the windshield of a driver who honked at him.

A tiny Spanish village — population around 1,000 — stopped so many people for riding the wrong way in city alleys after a Christmas market blocked the main street that they had to call in reinforcements to write tickets for lines reaching 30 or more scofflaw salmon cyclists.

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Local 

Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition takes a deep dive into refuting the “big lie about bikes,” aka BLAB, t,o wit “Most people don’t want to ride bikes! If we built a safe bike network, no one will use it.” Something that is demonstrably false. 

 

State

CalMatters outstanding series on the rising death toll from traffic violence on California roadways — fueled in part by the DMV routinely allowing drivers with horrifying records to continue driving — is already resulting in action in the the state legislature.

This is who we share the road with. A post office in San Diego’s Mira Mesa neighborhood was the victim of an 81-year old driver when the woman slammed her car into it for some unknown reason; several people suffered minor injuries, while one person was hospitalized. Which should once again raise the question of how old is too old to drive, but probably won’t.

A senior marketing manager for Strava was kicked to the curb after a video went viral showing her abusing and attacking restaurant workers, after she was told they wouldn’t serve her any more alcohol; she was soon arrested on a charge of public intoxication.

This, too, is who we share the road with. Waymo suspended service in San Francisco after all of their self-driving cabs stalled in the middle of traffic lanes during the city’s widespread power outage over the weekend.

 

National

Speaking of kicked to the curb, a writer for Velo is no longer working for the magazine after Instagram and Substack bike writer James Huang accused them of plagiarizing his reviews.

Police in Portland busted a serial bike thief following a months-long burglary spree, charging him with stealing 43 bicycles and other items. You have to assume those were just the ones he got caught for, too. 

The Frisco, Texas Triathlon Club is hosting a Christmas Eve run to remember the two members who were run down from behind by a pickup driver while on a group ride; they’ve also created a fundraising drive to benefit the League of American Bicyclists, which has already doubled the modest initial $2,600 goal.

New York bike lanes should be a prime beneficiary of New York’s new mayor, as outgoing Mayor Adams delays yet another bike lane, even after it was pared down.

A father in North Carolina is suing the nation’s largest hospital chain, alleging that HCA Healthcare allowed an employee to drive a large box truck without proper training, after he fled the scene following a crash that killed the man’s son as he was riding a bike.

 

International

Momentum highlights the problem of drivers blocking bike lanes, and says the solution is groups like Bike Lane Uprising.

A British man completed a nearly 7,000-mile ride from Cheshire, England to the Chinese border with Kazakhstan to raise funds for a mental health charity. No word on whether he disappeared entirely except for his smile afterwards.

No bias here, either. A shopkeeper in the UK complained about bikes blocking the doorway to his shop, when there were bike racks right in front, except he had blocked access to the bike racks with his van.

 

Finally…

Who needs a tent and sleeping bag when you can tow a full-size fiberglass camper behind your bike? The bad news is, even the fastest bike helmet won’t go any faster than you do.

And before fleeing from the cops on your bike for the eighth time, maybe try putting a damn light on it first.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Hit-and-run charge in Ackerman killing, driver kills 2 Texas triathletes, and Imperial Beach teen critically injured by DUI driver

December 22, 2025 / / No comments
Day 356 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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It’s the last 3 days of the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive!

Thanks to John and Austin for their donations Sunday night to save our final fund drive weekend, and help keep all the best bike news and advocacy coming your way every day!

But time is quickly running out, with just three short days left to give.

So I’ll ask you the same question I asked on Day One. What is this site worth to you, and what can you afford to give?

If the information we give you every day is invaluable to you, but you can only afford ten bucks, then give ten. If it’s worth a hundred and you’ve got that, then give that. If you can and want to give more, then great, give more. 

But if it’s not worth a dime to you, or you can’t afford to give anything, then thank you for reading, which I appreciate even more than your money. 

If you want to donate, you can do it right now with just a few clicks through PayPal or Venmo, or via Zelle to ted@bikinginla.com using the banking app on your smartphone.

If you’ve already given, I sincerely and humbly thank you. But either way, I wish a joy filled holiday season for you and all your loved ones. 

And yes, our spokescorgi is just a tad worn out by all this now. 

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About damn time.

The Los Angeles DA’s office has filed charges against 73-year old Douglas Morton Adams for the July hit-and-run crash that killed 27-year-old Blake Ackerman as he rode his bike on Fountain Ave at Gardner in West Hollywood.

Adams faces a single felony count of hit-and-run resulting in death or serious injury, which carries a penalty of just four years behind bars.

Which hardly seems sufficient for snuffing out the life of a bright young man on the verge of starting a new life with his fiancé here in Los Angeles.

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Awful news from Dallas suburb of Frisco, where two triathletes were killed by a driver while riding their bikes Saturday morning.

The victims were members of the Frisco Triathlon Club; a friend of the two men says he was supposed to ride with them that morning, but decided to work instead, which may have spared his life.

The driver reportedly started to drive off, but returned to the scene and cooperated with investigators.

Unfortunately, there’s no word yet on how the crash happened, or whether the driver will be charged.

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A suspected drunk driver is under arrest following a collision with a bike rider in Imperial Beach.

The victim was struck by the driver around 2:40 pm Saturday at Imperial Beach Boulevard and California Street.

The bike rider, reportedly a teenager riding an ebike, was hospitalized with critical injuries.

Anyone with information is urged to call the San Diego Sheriff’s Departmen’s Imperial Beach station at 619/498-2400.

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‘Tis the season.

Kansas City Chief’s quarterback Patrick Mahomes gave his offensive line new Aveton ebikes for protecting him, along with a host of other high-end swag.

Good for them. An African-American fraternity in South Carolina gave away 22 free bicycles, and as well as warm winter coats to 300 families.

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LABikeBoy tries riding to the Getty Villa, only to get turned away at the gate for the crime of riding a bicycle.

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Nothing like riding 136 miles offroad from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn, with nearly 40,000 feet of elevation gain, in less than 48 hours.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

In an example of toxic masculinity run amok, a writer from Cayucos complains that buying your kid an ebike is “guaranteed to turn him into a weak-limb pussy,” and our “young male race into a bunch of butter-soft pansies.” Not that he doesn’t have a point about kids being better off with something they have to pedal, but still. 

Seriously? A politician from Northern Ireland was peeved at the condition of a park after a recent ‘cross race, even though it recovers quickly, and says he refuses to be intimidated by “cycling enthusiasts.” Because it’s not like “cycling enthusiasts” might be local residents or, you know, voters or anything.

But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.

No bias here. A British tabloid says “dog walkers and yummy mummies with pushchairs” are at “WAR” with “inconsiderate cyclists tearing through the park at up to 30 mph.” Then they illustrate it with a “No Cycling” sign, even though the park has a 12 mph speed limit for people on bicycles. “Yummy mummies?” Seriously?

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Local 

A writer on Medium spends years trying to hack life in “car-choked” Los Angeles into something more livable, until he realizes he can have the livable life he wants by moving to Spain.

Santa Clarita’s new bike park is set to open in the first quarter of next year, on a date to be determined.

 

State

No bias here, either. San Diego’s CBS8 reports that residents have concerns about two new community plans, but they can only seem to find one person who complains that a lane reduction and buffered bike lanes could cause problems evacuating the University City area, even while admitting that people could still drive in the bike lanes to get out, if necessary. Never mind that if there’s an anti-bike slant to any story, that station will find it.

San Diego’s longtime San Diego Bike Shop was struck by thieves yet again, losing dozens of high-end bikes at the height of the holiday shopping season, despite efforts to improve security.

San Francisco-based Ridepanda is teaming with corporations to offer leased ebikes to employees, as a perk to get workers to return to the office.

 

National

Singletracks wants to know about the most annoying habits of your bike-riding friends.

In a study that shouldn’t surprise anyone, bicyclists face a greater risk of injury or death in low-income neighborhoods — something born out by virtually any High Injury Network map.

Even tiny Columbia Falls, Montana — population 5,531 — is cracking down on ebikes. But at least they have the sense to differentiate being human-powered bikes, and strictly throttle-controlled devices.

A beloved Philadelphia DJ for a local drag show was killed by a hit-and-run driver while the 54-year old man was riding his bike home from work early Saturday.

 

International

There’s a special place in hell for whoever stole an adaptive e-tricycle from a kid with special needs in a British Columbia community.

This is the danger of a close pass. An English woman suffered multiple broken bones and other injuries when she was forced to hit a pothole on her bike, because a driver passing too close left her nowhere to go.

A British bike rider is warning about the dangers of a green-painted bike lane, after he needed a hip replacement when his bike skidded out from under him because the smooth paint created a slick surface. Which is exactly the fear in this country when green lanes were first introduced, until cities — including Los Angeles — began using textured surfaces. Evidently, that city didn’t get the memo.

A senior political correspondent for the Guardian argues that the UK is not keeping up with rapid changes in bicycling, but emulating the bike-friendly highways enjoyed by the country’s European neighbors will take a lot more money and political will. Sounds a lot like this country, including a certain SoCal megalopolis we could name.

A 58-year-old man died after falling into a canal in Brussels, Belgium with his bicycle, while he was riding home from a Christmas tractor event.

Speaking of Brussels, advocates are calling a ban on bikes in a nearly half-mile long pedestrianized zone “dangerous and absurd.”

The ghost bike movement has made it to Istanbul, Turkey, with a single white bike placed in a memorial to remember all those who have died riding a bicycle.

India’s Financial Express newspaper says bicycling has become the preferred form of exercise in the country, as Indians have “shifted towards outdoor workouts, better heart health and stress relief, driven by post-pandemic habits and growing fitness awareness.”

Travel website Time Out recommends the ten best Aussie bicycling holidays for your next trip Down Under. Which is not the same as the Upside Down, incase you were wondering. 

 

Competitive Cycling

2023 Tour de France Femmes champ Demi Vollering didn’t have anything good to say about all the motorists who passed her by without stopping to see if she was okay after “kissing” the pavement on a training ride in Spain; only a single bicyclist stopped to help her.

Now you, too, can have an ugly Christmas sweater from your favorite cycling team. As long as your favorite team is Visma-Lease a Bike.

 

Finally…

Forget the endless lists of what to buy the bike rider in your life — here’s what not to buy. Loki star Tom Hiddleston is one of us, brown suit and all.

And probably not the best idea to drive back to work after taking “a little bit if everything” at a holiday party.

Let alone pass out on your steering wheel with some of those drugs in plain site.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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The true cost of California’s cancelled ebike program, and how to know ebike classifications and still get it wrong

December 19, 2025 / / 2 comments
Day 352 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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Just 5 days left in the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive!

 

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But time’s running out! Just seven six days left to give! 

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And happy Chanukah to everyone wrapping up your celebration this weekend!

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This is the cost of cancelling the state’s ebike voucher program.

According to a paywalled story from the Sacramento Bee, republished by Governing, the California Ebike Incentive Program was literally life-changing for residents of a low-income neighborhood in the city.

Dewayne McDaniel, who got a bike he uses to get to the store to buy food, praised the scuttled e-bike program: He couldn’t afford a car but, with the bike, he could easily pick up groceries for himself and for his neighbor who was unable to walk. Another neighbor in his complex, AJ Ortiz, walks with a cane but loves the e-bike he purchased with a voucher. Ortiz’s bike gives him a low-impact way to incorporate more exercise and movement into his life, and he can visit friends downtown and get to the bank without having to rely on the bus.

The money remaining in the program, about $23 million, was shifted to California’s Clean Cars 4 All vehicle trade-in program, which only helps if you can afford a new car.

And many low-income Californians can’t.

But Ortiz, McDaniel, Crespo, Emery and Sala were disappointed that the e-bike program was ended rather than retooled.

In a lot of our families in our community, those old 15-year-old cars, that’s the only car they have, and they’re not gonna give it up,” Sala said. The Clean Cars 4 All program gives up to $12,000 toward the purchase of an electric or hybrid vehicle made within the last eight years, but participants have to trade in their old, less-efficient car. “To give it up for an e-vehicle that costs more money, that will — they’ll have to get a loan — they’re not gonna do that. … The program the way they’re designing it now will not work for poor communities. It just won’t.”

Not to mention that the vehicle program is a trade-in program, so it only works if you already own a car.

So if you don’t have a car or can’t afford one, you’re screwed. And without the voucher program, many low-income Californians would even struggle to afford a used bicycle, let alone a new ebike.

Sala said that many people in low-income neighborhoods would love to get an e-bike if they could afford the initial purchase: The $2,000 voucher could cover the whole cost of a bike as well a helmet and locks. The California Air Resources Board reasoned that an e-bike can replace many shorter car trips for far less money.

As the story points out, not only can an ebike replace shorter car trips, they can also serve as mobility devices for people who might not otherwise be able to get around.

McDaniel uses the bike to get food, too. He said he couldn’t afford a car and — because he has congestive heart failure — he couldn’t walk very far or carry much weight. “I can only do a limited amount,” he said. But now with a new form of transportation, he can go to the store and pick up food for himself and one of his neighbors.

“It makes life simpler,” he said “It gives you a better quality of life.”

Even with his health issues, he can get around with the help of the bike.

This is what CARB took away from us with their money grab that took ebike vouchers from low-income Californians to redistribute to people who can afford a car, actually want one, and are able to drive one.

But according to CARB, they didn’t have a choice, arguing that the state’s budget crisis required them to transfer any available funds into the car program.

Which may or may not be true.

But if they hadn’t had their heads so far up their own asses so badly mismanaged the program for three years, the funds would have been distributed to people in need long before the state budget became an issue.

I’m not the only one who’s called for a state investigation into the whole damn thing. But California Attorney General Rob Bonta apparently is too busy suing Donald Trump to look into problems closer to home.

So we’re stuck with waiting for legislature to find the funds, and the will, to restore the program.

And hopefully find another state agency to manage it.

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They get it. And they don’t get it.

Simultaneously.

The Los Angeles Times reports on the problem of ebike-born hooligans who attacked a man in Hermosa Beach, leading to charges against at least two boys in their early teens, along with alleged South Bay teen ebike gangs, and others who engage in aggressive behavior.

Some beach cities residents say the teens’ aggression reflects a broader attitude: that e-bike riders, emboldened by their protected status as minors, increasingly act as if they own the streets.

“They run stop signs, they’re speeding, they’re flipping people off. They’re on their phones or filming themselves for social media,” said Redondo Beach resident Darryl Boyd. “It’s a circus — a psycho circus.”

Then the Times carefully makes the point that there are differing types of ebikes.

The machines cost anywhere from $1,000 to $6,000. Type 1 e-bikes, which are pedal-assisted, and Type 2 e-bikes, which are pedal- and throttle-assisted, can reach up to 20 mph, while Type 3 e-bikes can go up to 28 mph and may only be ridden by those 16 and older in California.

Pocket bikes, electric motorcycles and electric dirt bikes, which are generally not street legal in California, can reach speeds of 45 to 55 mph. These devices are particularly popular among teen boys, who use them to perform high-speed stunts.

So far, so good.

The problem comes in the rest of the whole damn article, which never bothers to point out that the misbehaving lads aren’t riding Type 1 or 2 ebikes. Or even Type 3, for that matter.

Instead, they’re roaming the streets on the bikes discussed in that second paragraph above. Mini bikes, e-motorbikes, dirt bikes, and other assorted fast and high-powered machines of questionable legality, too often purchased by indulgent parents.

Which wouldn’t matter, except when the inevitable crackdown comes — as it has in Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, El Segundo and now Torrance — affecting everyone on any type of ebike, from middle school students and working class bike commuters, to the dirt bike-riding miscreants who caused the problem in the first place.

So congratulations to the LA Times for being one of the first media sources to crack the code on the various ebike classes.

But maybe they could be just a tad clearer on which riders actually cause the problems.

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‘Tis the season.

A Christmas bike giveaway started by a late police officer will donate 44 bikes to kids in Sinton and Corpus Christi, Texas.

A restaurant in Big Sandy, Texas is hosting a bike giveaway tomorrow, asking donors to just show up with a new bicycle, and kids who want one to just show up with a parent. Apparently, they just have to trade their parent to get a new bike. 

The 18th annual Arkansas Stop the Violence bicycle drive hopes to give away 500 new bicycles to children in need this year, after already collecting 390.

The Tampa, Florida Habitat for Humanity teamed with onbikes to give away 50 bicycles to kids in need, while 25 families will move into new homes built by volunteers.

This one belongs here too, as the kindhearted employees of a Florida school pitched in to buy a new bike for a coworker who rides 17 miles to work every day.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

This is why people keep dying on our streets. An alleged road-raging driver who chased an Irish bike rider and pinned his bike to the curb, just for the crime of being told to get off his phone behind the wheel, had his two-year driving ban for failing to cooperate with police investigators lifted, after convincing the judge that it was just too darn inconvenient.

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Local 

Metro has released the draft environmental report on extending the LA River Bike Path south from Elysian Valley through DTLA, Vernon and Maywood; the comment period began yesterday, and will continue to February 2nd, with a series of public hearings at the end of January.

 

State

Huntington Beach has designated September 18th of each year to be Kolby Aipa Day, marking the birthday of the 20-year old surfboard scion killed when the ebike he was riding was being towed by a friend’s car.

This is why people keep dying on our streets, part two. A Fresno man walked without a single day behind bars after pleading no contest to killing a bike-riding college professor and mother of five, after the CHP helpfully testified that it was just really, really hard to see her due to a hill; the judge sentenced him to 180 days split between work release — which doesn’t have to be served in jail — and home vacation.

San Francisco Streetsblog helpfully suggests six projects that fit with the mayor’s new safety initiative, which replaces the city’s failed Vision Zero.

 

National

If your kid is riding in a Schwinn Ovation Bicycle Child Carrier stop using it immediately, after they were recalled for a risk of falling off; meanwhile, about 400 Pedego Fat Tire Trikes have been recalled due to risk of the frame breaking.

Albuquerque, New Mexico is addressing a troubling number of bicycling deaths by installing the city’s first protected bike lane, though only as a pilot project. Because apparently, something that has been repeatedly proven to work to improve safety doesn’t count unless it’s proven again here, wherever here happens to be. 

Once again, someone has been killed in a dispute over a stolen bicycle, this time in Austin, Texas, where police allege a 30-year old man shot another man after accusing him of stealing his bicycle. How many times do we have to say it? No bike is worth a human life. Just let it go, and let the cops handle it.

Suspected ICE agents, who refused to identify themselves or who they work for, tackled a Columbus, Ohio man off his bicycle as he was riding by. Which begs the questions of whether they had a warrant for him, and how could they tell if he was here legally by how he rode a bike? 

The Plymouth, Massachusetts Select Board showed a little common sense by rejecting even a watered-down crackdown on ebikes. By all means, go after the kids on illegal electric motorbikes and dirt bikes, but leave ped-assist bikes out of it. 

Adding a shared use bike path to a replacement for Baltimore’s Chesapeake Bay Bridge could add more than a billion bucks to the total cost, which is already double previous estimate of $7.8 billion. Maybe if they didn’t pave the pathway with gold and diamonds it might lower the cost a bit. 

Woodstock, Georgia — no, not the one where the famous music festival took place — is considering a crackdown on minibikes and ebikes after two men on the former caused $7,000 in damage by doing burnouts on their e-minibikes in a shopping mall elevator. Once again victimizing all ebike riders for the actions of a few on e-motorbikes.

A Florida website considers why the Sunshine State remains the nation’s most dangerous state for people on bicycles, and what can be done about it.

 

International

Momentum says Canadian bicyclists are, like the eponymous geese, migrating south for the winter, but opting for spots in South and Central America rather previous sunny spots like Arizona and Florida, which may seem questionable in the current environment.

A British tutoring firm examines some of the people who have ridden a bicycle around the world.

Ghost bikes have made their way to Cape Town, South Africa to honor the victims of traffic violence.

 

Competitive Cycling

Velo doesn’t seem to be fans of the Ineos Grenadiers cycling team’s new orange and whitish kits, either. I mean, we all know what happens when you sweat through white bike shorts, right?

A UK pro cycling site considers the psychology and history of the 21 hairpin bends that make up the legendary Alpe d’Huez.

Bike Radar considers the rich and ever-changing tapestry of WorldTour cycling team sponsors.

The legendary Eddy Merckx hopes to be able to ride a bike again, after the 80-year old Cannibal broke his hip, and underwent a third hip replacement.

 

Finally…

Doesn’t everyone ride a century on a Penny Farthing dressed as Santa? So much for riding a new Porsche ebike.

And your new riding glasses could be smarter than you are.

Okay, maybe just smarter than me.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Torrance crackdown lumps e-cargo bikes with illegal minibikes, and quick-build protected bike lane proposed for Jefferson

December 18, 2025 / / One comment
Day 351 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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Just 7 days left in the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive!

 

Thanks to Beverly, Michael and another Michael for their generous donations to support SoCal’s best source for bike news and advocacy!

But time’s quickly running out! Just seven days — one short week — left to give. 

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Just relax, already, and give now!

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No surprise here.

The Torrance City Council voted 6 to 1 to approve the proposal cracking down on ebikes. And managed to once again conflate electric motorbikes with ped-assist ebikes.

To wit, according to the Daily Breeze,

Earlier this month, for example, a 22-year-old individual was arrested for riding their e-bike inside the Del Amo Fashion Center — and nearly hitting a mall security officer who got in their path.

“When contacted by mall security personnel,” Torrance Police Department Lt. Charles Fisher said following the arrest, “the rider allegedly attempted to strike a security officer with the minibike, constituting an assault with a deadly weapon.”

While the individual was charged with a felony, the Police Department has limited enforcement ability otherwise, Fisher said.

Note that the police lieutenant clearly identified it as a minibike. But because of incidents like that, which have nothing whatsoever to do with kids riding Class 1 ebikes to school, or commuters riding their e-cargo bike to work, they somehow have to crack down on everyone.

Again, according the the Daily Breeze — which embargoed the story behind their paywall while I was in the middle of writing about it —

The code was amended to include class three e-bikes – a bike that offers pedal assistance up to 28 mph – under the definition of a bicycle, meaning they must follow all applicable traffic laws when it comes to where and when a bicyclist can ride.

The ordinance also prohibits class three e-bikes from being ridden on any sidewalks, or in city parks and recreational facilities. Regular bicycles are also not allowed on sidewalks in business districts or adjacent to schools, churches, recreation centers and playgrounds. And any stunt riding, including wheelies and other “acrobatic maneuvers,” and the use of handheld devices while operating a bicycle are prohibited for any bicyclist, under the ordinance.

So a kid riding an ebike to school will be forced to ride in the street, mixing it up with drivers doing 45 mph, rather than being allowed on the far-safer sidewalks.

And this in a town without a single protected bikeway. Because that would require removing parking spaces, and might somehow make someone somewhere just a tad inconvenienced.

So allowing people free storage for their big, dangerous machines right next to the curb is more important than the lives of little kids, as far as Torrance is concerned.

Noted.

As others have said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them.

And they certainly did.

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About damn time.

CD11 Councilmember Traci Park is calling for a barrier protected bike lane along Jefferson Blvd between Culver and Lincoln boulevards, creating a safe route connecting “Playa Vista to Playa del Rey while respecting the restored Ballona Wetlands trail,” according to Park.

The proposal call for allocating $175,000 from the Coastal Transportation Corridor Trust Fund to install K-rail barriers along the shoulder of the roadway for a quick-build solution to improve safety.

Which offers Park the added benefit preventing the return of a large RV encampment that was recently cleared.

There’s no word on when her motion will be heard by the city council, but it’s worth considering. Although a lot depends on the condition of the pavement on that shoulder she wants to repurpose.

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‘Tis the season.

A Catholic nonprofit is teaming with a San Jose bike shop to distribute 100 bikes to kids in the local area.

A Scranton, PA state senator’s annual bike giveaway program distributed 2,000 new, mostly identical, bicycles to local kids, double the total from last year.

A South Carolina program is distributing four refurbished bicycles to randomly selected people in the local area.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

A British lord is once again calling for a crackdown on bicyclists, insisting that London is the “Wild West” for bike riders, urging mandatory bike registration, penalty points linked to driving licenses and stricter speed limits on ebikes. Never mind that both the Conservatives and Labour parties have batted down similar proposals a number of times recently.

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Local 

Here’s a great idea. If you rent a Lime bike in LA, you can now round up your total rental price, with the extra money going to fund BikeLA, aka the former Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.

 

State

San Francisco public television station KQED remembered a 21-year old Stanford student who was killed while riding his bike on campus last spring; the Pakistani student, who was born in the US and raised in Lahore, was mourned by people in both countries.

 

National

Velo picks the year’s best road bikes.

As we mentioned the other day, Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes lived down to expectations by filing bankruptcy, declaring debts of a whopping $73 million.

A Japanese man is crediting luck and the kindness of strangers for allowing him to continue his journey from New York to Los Angeles, after his bicycle was stolen in Albuquerque, New Mexico; local residents provided donations, and he spotted someone riding his bike a few days later, paying the man the $40 to get his bike back and get back on the road to LA.

A 70-year old man from the next town over from my Colorado hometown was blown away by yesterday’s winds. No, literally.

A homeless man from Boulder, Colorado was sentenced to 96 years behind bars after police found the body of a 19-year old woman wrapped in plastic in his abandoned bike trailer; she had apparently been there for several days, after her boyfriend had traded her to her killer for drugs.

Once again, someone riding a bicycle has paid the ultimate price for a police chase, as a 31-year old Nashville bicyclist was collateral damage, killed by a hit-and-run driver fleeing from the cops, who the escaped into the woods after the crash while leaving his female passenger behind.

If you build it, they will come. Boston’s Better Bike Lanes project to install protected bike lanes throughout the metro area has resulted in a substantial increase in bicycle trips, along with a modest decrease in motor vehicle traffic.

That’s more like it. An op-ed on a Queens, New York website agrees with the recent court ruling halting a new bike lane on 31st Street — but only because the bike lane didn’t got far enough to improve safety.

 

International

The Toronto city council unanimously approved dozens of bike lanes in the city’s inner suburbs, which carefully skirt the new provincial ban on removing traffic lanes.

No bias here. Readers of a Bristol, England website are up in arms over new bike lanes, alleging that the construction is complicating their lives and making traffic worse, instead of better. As if every road construction project doesn’t the same problems. 

Five men in Yorkshire, England were convicted of murdering a 28-year old man by breaking into his home and slashing his neck, in a dispute over a stolen ebike.

No justice in the UK, where a truck driver was acquitted for killing a 52-year old wife and mother as she was riding her bike, after playing the universal Get Out Of Jail Free card by claiming he just didn’t see her because the sun was in his eyes.

British broadcaster and bicycle advocate Jeremy Vine received the equivalent of over $800,000 after filing a defamation suit against a former soccer player who called him a “bike nonce” on Twitter/X; nonce is British slang for a pedophile.

Bicyclists in South Africa were outraged after a 27-year old man was released on the equivalent of less than $900 bail despite being accused of killing a 41-year old husband and father riding a bicycle, while speeding and driving under the influence.

Here’s another one for your bike bucket list — okay, mine — with a bicyclist’s guide to New Zealand’s breathtaking “remote and spectacular” Timber Trail through dense virgin forestland.

 

Competitive Cycling

It’s the winter fashion season, and the Ineos Grenadiers opt for bold orange and white, guaranteed to stand out on the runway or in the peloton, although not everyone is a fan — which appears to be an understatement.

Bike Radar names Britain’s Archie Atkinson as their newcomer of the year, while the 21-year old Paris silver medalist aims to become the first paracyclist on the WorldTour.

Reuters is capping the 2025 cycling season by arguing that Tadej Pogačar is nearing GOAT territory, comparing him to the great Eddy Merkx.

USA Cycling unveiled its 2026 national championship schedule for 21 various cycling disciplines.

 

Finally…

That feeling when you ride your bike to your cousin the king’s royal Christmas lunch. Your next gravel bike could be ebike seconds later.

And no, speed limits don’t deter “considerate cyclists.” Just like they don’t deter considerate drivers.

Or inconsiderate ones, for that matter.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Calderon on drugs in fatal PCH hit-and-run, life sentences in Probst murder, and Raising Canes giveaway goes Hollywood

December 17, 2025 / / No comments
Day 350 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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Just 8 days left in the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive!

Sadly, yesterday was the first day during this year’s fund drive without at least one donation to support SoCal’s best source bike news and advocacy. 

Although that’s partially my fault, as the spokescorgi’s full-time service dog job delayed asking for money until late in the day. 

Don’t let it happen again. Because time is quickly running out on this year’s fund drive. So what are you waiting for already?

So stop what you’re doing, and take just a moment to donate through PayPal or Venmo, or via Zelle to ted@bikinginla.com using the banking app on your smartphone.

Seriously, don’t make her beg. Give now!

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No surprise here.

Toxicology tests confirmed that a Long Beach woman was officially allegedly stoned when she plowed into three bicyclists on PCH in Huntington Beach, killing a 45-year old pastor and father of four.

Forty-three-year old Amber Calderon was reportedly high on fentanyl, meth and weed at the time of the October hit-and-run, confirming reports that she appeared to be under the influence when she was stopped by a witness in a state park nearly a mile away, despite having a flat tire and “obvious damage” to her car.

Eric Williams was riding on the shoulder of the roadway with two other people when Calderon is alleged to have swerved right, running them all down from behind. Williams was the co-founder of the Community Church of West Garden Grove, along with his wife.

According to KTLA-5,

Following the toxicology results, Calderon’s charges were upgraded to one felony count of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated without gross negligence, driving under the influence of drugs causing bodily injury, possession of hard drugs with two or more prior convictions, one felony count of hit-and-run causing permanent injury or death, two felony counts of hit-and-run with injury, and a violation of Section 11395(b)(1) of the Health and Safety Code.

She now faces a maximum of 12 years and four months behind bars if she’s convicted on all charges.

The only surprise is that this appears to be her first DUI, since no murder charges were filed.

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It looks like there was justice for Andreas Probst after all.

The two men charged with intentionally ramming the former Bell, California police chief as he rode a bicycle on a Las Vegas street were both sentenced to up to life behind bars yesterday.

They were both teenagers and students at a Las Vegas high school at the time of the crash, where they shared video of the fatal crash with other students showing themselves laughing and egging each other on as they sent Probst flying off his bike.

The driver, Jesus Ayala, now 20 years old, accepted a plea of 20 years to life, while his passenger, Jzamir Keys, who is now 18, agreed to a sentence of 18 years to life.

As juveniles when the crime was committed, they will both be eligible for parole after 20 years.

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‘Tis the season.

The nationwide Raising Cane’s bike giveaway finally made it all the way west to Hollywood, as Raising Cane’s founder Todd Graves teamed with poplar Hallmark actress Lacey Chabert to give 120 new bikes to kids at the Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood, with another 380 bicycles promised by Christmas; the fast food chain has donated a total of 4,500 bikes, valued at $1.5 million, in nearly 30 US cities this year alone.

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It’s a great ad for eggs. For yeast, maybe not so much.

A Three Minute EggFleischmann's Yeast

— Cool Bike Art (@coolbikeart1.bsky.social) 2025-12-15T21:02:30.647Z

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

A British mayor says returning a bike lane to a Cambridgeshire bridge would cause chaos, and demanded that the city council change its mind on restoring the temporary bikeway. Because evidently, it causes far less chaos to have bicyclists riding in front of cars and occasionally getting run over. 

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Local 

Lakers star Luka Dončić’ spent nearly $350,000 to buy new ebikes from Venice-based Pedal Electric for every member of the team, as well as all the team staffers; however, the 36 mph top speed for the bike he gave the players violates California law, which allows a maximum for 28 mph for a Class 3 ebike.

 

State

Makes sense. San Diego has installed a network of “hostile architecture” to deter homeless people, which effectively compliments the city’s hostile streets.

Speaking of which, the family of 60-year old fallen bicyclist Yi Zhang discusses their loss and his helping heart, after he was killed by a driver while riding to the gym in San Diego’s Rancho Peñasquitos.

Folsom will build a highway underpass to connect the 50-mile bike trail network north of Highway 50 with a 30-mile network to the south.

Sacramento celebrated the reopening of the Del Rio Trail Bridge, which severed the bike path after authorities determined it wasn’t safe when the new path opened last year.

 

National

Popular Seattle-based ebike maker Rad Power Bikes officially went belly up, filing a bankruptcy petition while seeking new ownership within the next two to three months.

The owner of an Anchorage, Alaska bike shop is finally getting $75,000 worth of stolen bicycles back, which sat in a police evidence room for seven years until the case was finally settled, after they were recovered from a storage unit just two weeks after the theft. Except what was then a new model is now seven years old, with equally dated tech.

Minnesota researchers discovered that it’s not the dark or cold that keeps kids from biking to school in the winter, but rather distance, a lack of safe bike routes, and having to cross dangerous roadways.

A New Yorker who led the fight that removed cars from New York’s Central Park says he opposes efforts to ban ebikes from the park, saying supporters of the ban don’t remember what it was like before when motor vehicles ruled the park. Maybe he could come here, and help us get cars out of Griffith Park.

A proposed change to New Jersey law would eliminate the current ebike classifications, and require an ebike operator’s license, registration and insurance for every type of ebike, from slower Class 1 ped-assist bikes to electric motorbikes.

Residents of Asheville, North Carolina are advocating for the passage of the Magnus White Cyclists Safety Act in the US Congress, which would require carmakers to install Automatic Emergency Braking Systems capable of detecting people who aren’t ensconced in a couple tons of automotive glass and steel, such as bicyclists and pedestrians.

 

International

Around 70 bicyclists took to the streets of Guelph, Ontario to demand that the city maintain bike lanes year round, rather than closing them in the winter; the effort worked, as the city’s mayor used his special powers to order them cleared, starting immediately.

This is who we share the road with. A 25-year old Toronto man was sentenced to five years behind bars and a 15-year driving ban, for the hit-and-run death of a 16-year old kid riding a minibike, then lying about it and telling investigators he’d been carjacked.

Bicyclists riding the UK’s National Cycle Network were forced into what may be a permanent nine-mile detour after a historic 350-foot Scottish biking and walking bridge collapsed due to fast-moving flood waters, as local leaders said it will be “nigh on impossible” to fix. Although something tells me they’d find a way if it carried motor vehicle traffic.

An Irish woman pled guilty to a single count of dangerous driving causing death for killing an “inspirational” former Limerick teacher as the 70-year old man was riding a bicycle, but didn’t enter a plea to DUI and other charges in the crash.

His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, ordered the construction of vehicle overpasses to completely separate cars from a 15-mile bike path.

New Chinese regulations will improve safety for ebikes, while making them harder to tamper with to illegally increase speeds.

 

Competitive Cycling

A champion Maltese triathlete broke her collarbone when she rounded a blind curve on a training ride, and hit a double speed bump.

 

Finally…

Riding just 13 mph through the park could get you a $66 speeding fine. Who needs a mag trainer when you could be crushing rocks all winter?

And that feeling when your training ride gets just a tad muddy.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Torrance tries to overregulate ebikes tonight, what comes after Vision Zero fail, and CD12’s Lee fails ethics ruling

December 16, 2025 / / No comments
Day 349 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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Just 9 days left in the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive!

So far we haven’t had a single day without at least one donation. So thanks to Bonnie and James for their generous support for SoCal’s best bike news and advocacy! 

But time is running out. Seriously, what are you waiting for already?

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Last week, we mentioned that Torrance will consider new ebike regulations at tonight’s City Council meeting.

Make that over regulating, once again lumping ped-assist ebikes together with electric motorbikes, and safe bike commuters with overly entitled teen gangs on high-speed dirt bikes.

It’s hard for me to effectively evaluate proposals in cities I barely know, and haven’t ridden in for years.

Fortunately, North Torrance Bike Bus organizer Kyle Richardson has shared an open letter to the Torrance council that clearly spells out just how far overboard this proposal goes.

So if you live or ride in the area, give this a close read. Then attend the meeting if you can, or submit your comments before the meeting.

Because this crap is just ridiculous. And dangerous.

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What comes after Vision Zero?

That’s the question San Francisco is attempting to answer after the expiration of the city’s Vision Zero program, which was supposed to end traffic deaths in the city by last year.

But didn’t.

In fact, according to public television station KQED, the city saw 41 traffic deaths last year, the highest total since 2007. This year has been better, with 23 traffic deaths to date, although pedestrians account for over two-thirds of those deaths.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced the new approach will involve streamlining the decision-making process into a new Street Safety Initiative Working Group.

Which doesn’t quite have the same ring as Vision Zero, but still.

Lurie framed the city’s initiative as a more aggressive implementation of the “Safe System” approach, of which zero deaths on the roads is the goal. Lurie said the policy directs streets to be built to handle human error, managing vehicle speeds so that common mistakes don’t become fatal tragedies.

“Too often, traffic injuries are the result of predictable patterns and preventable conditions,” Lurie said. “This initiative will make streets safer for everyone … In San Francisco, safety is non-negotiable.”

The problem is that the Safe System is based on the concept of shared responsibility, which means a seven-year old kid biking to school has the same responsibility for safety as the people in the big dangerous machines.

Even though only one of those is likely to kill anyone.

And it ain’t the kid.

KQED reports the main difference between the new Street Safety Initiative Working Group and Vision Zero — aside from having an actual defined goal — appears to be the involvement of the mayor’s office.

A primary task within the first 100 days of this directive is to confirm and publish the 2025 High Injury Network — the map of the specific streets where the vast majority of severe crashes occur. Once confirmed, the city is tasked with identifying a priority list of “quick-build” projects, which use paint and physical barriers to rapidly improve safety in high-risk areas.

Within six months, the working group is required to release a Traffic Enforcement Strategy Report identifying the top crash-causing behaviors to target.

For advocates who have spent years pushing for safer streets, the directive represents a hopeful, yet overdue, step. White noted that while the Bicycle Coalition sees this as an extension of previous work, the direct involvement of the mayor’s office offers a new level of accountability.

All of which should have been done already, of course.

Still, it’s worth watching, in case Los Angeles ever decides to take another stab at reducing traffic violence, let alone traffic deaths, after the abject failure of this city’s Vision Zero, which was supposed to end traffic deaths a whopping 349 days ago.

Although streamlining doesn’t seem to be a strongpoint in Los Angeles these days.

Never mind accountability.

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No surprise here.

An administrative law judge ruled that CD12 Councilmember John Lee violated Los Angeles ethics laws by accepting expensive food, alcohol, hotel stays and other gifts from three men trying to influence City Hall, in the same case that put his predecessor behind bars.

If you can call a Club Fed minimal security camp “behind bars.”

The judge recommended a $43,730 fine for violations committed when Lee was chief of staff to then-City Councilmember Mitchell Englander, who ended up sentenced to 14 months for his role in the pay-to-play scandal.

Lee was never charged by prosecutors, however, despite being the notorious “City Staffer B” referred to in Englander’s federal indictment, and won re-election last year despite the scandal.

The city Ethic Commission will make a final determination on any penalty for Lee tomorrow. I’m tempted to say that if Lee had any ethics, he’d step down if the commission rules against him.

But if he had shown any ethics, he wouldn’t have gotten caught up in the scandal in the first place.

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‘Tis the season.

Chance the Rapper teamed with chicken strip outlet Raining Canes to sponsor a bike giveaway for 100 kids in Chicago Ridge, giving back to the community where he grew up.

An annual holiday bike giveaway program in Newport, Massachusetts matched 85 local kids with new bikes, helmets and safety lessons.

The sheriff of Louisiana’s Lafourche Parish is asking people to nominate kids to receive a refurbished bicycle; the program gave away 225 bicycles to families in need last year, and more than 5.700 since 1992.

Bike giveaways aren’t limited to the US, either, as more than 90 refurbished bicycles were distributed to kids in County Clare, Ireland.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

‘Nuff said.

Clearly there was just nowhere else to park.

— (@jaj991.bsky.social) 2025-12-14T20:12:41.067Z

But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.

An Amazon delivery driver in an unidentified city says he “went postal” on a road raging bike rider who allegedly called him an “idiot” and the n-word, then spit in his face, after the delivery driver reportedly got too close for comfort by edging out into the rider’s path. Look, we all get pissed off by dangerously obtuse drivers who just don’t get it. But spitting, and spitting out racial slurs, is going too damn far. 

London’s former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, aka the head of Scotland Yard for those of us over here, is urging a crackdown on “rogue cyclists,” saying too many pedestrians are being injured by people on bicycles. Just wait until someone tells him about all the pedestrians injured, or worse, by people in cars. 

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Local 

Boyle Heights Beat offers photos from the inaugural two-day Camino City Terrace open streets event this past weekend; Streetsblog’s Joe Linton provides his photos, as well.

 

State

UCI Health offers advice to teens on how to stay safe riding an ebike. Once again conflating the dangers of throttle-controlled electric motorbikes with ped-assist ebikes. 

We discussed this one last week, but it’s worth mentioning again as Steven forwards the Cal Matters License to Kill investigation alleging that California leaders looked the other way as more than 40,000 people died in roadways in the state.

A writer for Planetizen says San Diego’s car-centric planning makes the city a paradise for cars, but it’s literally killing children. Then again, considering the toll of school shootings as well as traffic violence, our society doesn’t seem to have a problem with that. 

San Diego may follow the example of other SoCal beach cities by banning the use of ebikes for kids under 12.

A 62-year old driver was arrested in Palm Springs for the drunken hit-and-run that left a bike rider with moderate injuries Sunday night; no word on how they tracked him down.

 

National

No news is good news, right?

 

International

How holiday boozing affects your biking. Aside from the obvious risk of falling off it. 

Ghost bike takes on a different meaning in Mexico City, where two “ghost” bike parking facilities remain abandoned for as long as five years after they were built to improve urban public space.

Residents of Havana, Cuba were up in arms after a man was killed when he hit a massive pothole on his bike in broad daylight, and his body was just left lying in the roadway next to it for hour afterwards.

A Welsh truck driver is on trial for careless driving after killing a woman riding a bicycle, claiming the sun was in his eyes. Which should be seen as a confession, rather than a defense; if you can’t see, pull over and wait until you can. 

British foldie maker Brompton continues to suffer from falling sales after the pandemic bike boom went bust.

The Emerald Isle now offers the first cross-border bikeway between Ireland and Northern Ireland, providing a 12-mile route along fjord-like coastal landscapes.

Prosecutors in the Netherlands are calling for the makers of Stint cargo bikes to spend five years behind bars for a 2018 train crash that killed four children riding in a cargo bike, alleging that the bike’s many technical flaws caused the rider to lose control and fall onto the tracks.

A new public survey shows a plurality of New Zealanders support investing in bikeways by a 6% margin over opponents, with the highest support among younger people, Māori, and people in the highest income bracket.

Speaking of New Zealand, mountain biker Samuel Shaw set a new record for biking across the country, covering the 396 miles from Aukland to Wellington in 17 hours and 21 minutes, breaking the previous record of 18 hours, 26 minutes set by Lachlan Morton in February.

 

Competitive Cycling

Longtime pro cyclist Peter Stetina is calling it a career after the coming gravel season, calling it his “Farewell Tour.”

Outside profiles the Gaza Sunbirds paracycling team, composed of Palestinian amputees who deliver aid to refugees as well as racing, “turning loss into resilience on and off the road.”

 

Finally…

What to put in your kid’s stocking, if a new bike doesn’t fit. Turning lost hubcaps found on bike rides into art.

And your next ebike could be kinda car-adjacent.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Traffic congest is getting better in Los Angeles, but better biking ain’t the reason; and still more holiday bike giveaways

December 15, 2025 / / No comments
Just 10 days left in the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive!

Let’s all thank Kevin, Glenn and Mandy for their generous support over the weekend to keep all the best bike news and advocacy coming your way every day! 

Time’s running out to donate. So seriously, what are you waiting for already?

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And have happy Chanukah if you’re celebrating this week!

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Believe it or not, traffic is getting better in Los Angeles.

So says transportation analytics firm INRIX, which says Los Angeles was “only” the world’s 10th-most congested city this year, down from 8th last year.

Although that comes after years of ranking #1 year after year.

Which made most of us feel like #2.

In fact, we weren’t even #1 in the US, coming in 4th behind Chicago, New York City and Philadelphia, as the city showed a slight 1% drop in traffic delays.

Granted, that ain’t much, but it’s better than going the other way.

Istanbul led the international rankings, followed by Mexico City, Chicago and New York.

However, that drop’s not necessarily a good thing, according to the Los Angeles Times.

So what is going on? Experts cite several theories:

  • Reworked commuting habits spurred by the COVID pandemic
  • The continued struggles of downtown Los Angeles, where office vacancies remain high
  • L.A.’s already notorious congestion, which has long been so severe that it’s easier for conditions to get slightly better than any worse

That’s not to say L.A. drivers had it easy, though. In 2025, the average Angeleno driver still spent 87 hours — more than three full days — sitting in traffic, down from 88 hours the year before, according to the report.

Not cited as a reason, of course, is any noticeable increase in bicycling and walking rates, as the city remains notoriously dangerous and inconvenient to travel outside of a motor vehicle.

Not that it’s convenient in one, as the study shows.

Transit use has also rebounded after dropping considerably following the pandemic, though apparently not enough to be cited as a reason for the city’s slight improvement.

However, the study also shows that Los Angeles has a very long way to go if we’re actually going to achieve the mayor’s promise of a carfree Olympics. Let alone avoid the massive traffic congestion that was so feared the last time around.

It also not enough to make a dent in the city’s notoriously high death rate for anyone not safely ensconced in a couple tons of glass and steel. That would likely get even worse with any noticeable decrease in congestion, which could lead to an increase in average traffic speeds.

So as usual, it’s good news for drivers. Bad news for the rest of us.

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‘Tis the season.

Over 100 kids in Eastern Iowa will receive refurbished bicycles for the holidays, thanks to the efforts of a Cedar Rapids bike shop and a dozen volunteers.

More than 120 kids in Lansing, Michigan received refurbished bicycles, thanks to a local bike co-op.

A North Carolina woman affectionally known as “The Bike Madea” gave away nearly 2,500 donated bicycles to kids in need Saturday, continuing a 35-year tradition started her lat husband Moses “The Bicycle Man” Mathis in their backyard.

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Strasbourg has become the bike heft capital of France.

Thanks to Megan for the video. 

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Local 

No news is good news, right?

 

State

A bike trail near the Temecula VFW has been renamed in honor of Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, a graduate of Chaparral High School, who died in Iraq in March of 2016.

The victim of a fatal bicycling crash in Bakersfield on December 6th has been identified as a 23-year old man.

Sad news from Petaluma, where the victim in last month’s fatal hit-and-run while bicycling was identified as a 67-year old man from San Raphael.

The Sacramento Bee traces the bicycling history of bike-friendly Davis, home to America’s first bike lane 58 years ago.

 

National

Trump’s tariffs appear to be taking a toll, as bicycle imports to the US are down 24% year to date.

Singletracks wants to know if you keep any of your favorite trails a secret to keep ’em all to yourself.

Wired recommends the best bike gear for brisk, wintery commutes. Which probably isn’t, but still. 

Thanks to Mike for forwarding news that a Seattle bike rider was killed by a hit-and-run driver, which may have been the city’s first bicycling death in two years.

A Wisconsin man rode his bike across country the hard way, traveling nearly 6,800 miles from Key West, Florida to Homer, Alaska in 102 days, averaging 66 miles a day.

A 60-year old Black woman from Houston, Texas has been missing for more than seven years after leaving her home on her bicycle, which still has not been found, either.

A 54-year old man from Columbia, Missouri has ridden every day for the last ten years, averaging 33.65 miles a day, in temperatures as high as 114 degrees and wind chills of minus 60, for a total of more than 122,000 miles.

Tern’s longtail e-cargo bike has now run up over a million miles making deliveries through its commercial partners of the streets of New York City.

Once again, someone has covered an otherwise family friendly Florida mountain bike trail with swastikas and otherwise hateful graffiti, which is being investigated as a hate crime.

Good on them. After Florida demanded the removal of all Pride murals, St. Petersburg responded by installing 11 Pride-themed bike racks.

 

International

Calgary, Alberta faces a crossroads, as the newly elected mayor hasn’t taken a public stand on whether the city’s recent progress on installing bike lanes will continue.

The transport minister for Britain’s Labour government has declared the mythical “war on the motorist” over, accusing the former Conservative government of inflaming tensions on the road by “shamefully” pitting drivers against cyclists; meanwhile, Nigel Farage’s ultraconservative Reform UK party celebrates a new bike path marking a “green environment,” after nearly a decade of calling them a waste of money.

Cycling News visits the Hutchinson bike tire plant in Châlette-sur-Loing, France, where high-end race tires are made using century-old equipment.

Three men have been arrested for a years-long crime wave in Bern, Switzerland, charged with stealing hundreds of bicycles and selling them online at a steep discount.

Czech carmaker Škoda’s We Love Cycling site considers what happens to your body if you stop riding for the winter, saying the damage isn’t as bad as you think. Or you could just live in SoCal, and keep riding all year.

A 62-year old Ukrainian civilian was killed when he was critically injured by a Russian drone strike, and rescue personnel were unable to get to him safely.

Saving lives by delivering the four-dose malaria by bicycle in Malawi.

A man from Singapore went back to thank the people from Kota Tinggi, Malaysia, who came to his rescue when he suffered a flat tire on his bike, providing him with food, transportation and a camping site, while a man worked for over an hour trying to fix his tire.

 

Competitive Cycling

Remarkably, 31-year old Belgian cyclist Ludovic Robeet is already back to training after suffering a stroke in September.

 

Finally…

Riding from Ottawa to Montreal the long way. But is it really a Swiss Army Bike if it doesn’t have a can opener?

And your next bike could be repulsive.

But in a really good way.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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