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Arrest in knife attack on WeHo bike rider, cemeteries still fighting Forest Lawn Drive project, and maybe there’s hope for LA yet

May 8, 2026 / / No comments

Damn.

West Hollywood Sheriff’s detectives finally made an arrest in an attack on a bicyclist last August.

According to the Canyon News, a man was riding a bicycle near Westmount Drive and Rosewood Ave when someone threw a knife at him from a passing car, hitting him in the neck.

There’s no word on whether the rider was injured by the knife or how the suspect was located, nor is there any mention of possible charges.

But the suspect should be charged with attempted murder, because the knife assault could have been fatal if the attacker had better aim.

Image by Walter Bichler from Pixabay. 

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Evidently, a group opposed to red light cameras has a lot more sway with local leaders than we do.

And oddly, they seem to be on our side.

According to the Jewish Journal, Mt. Sinai and Forest Lawn cemeteries are once again complaining about plans to improve safety on Forest Lawn Drive.

After talking with Mayor Karen Bass and CD4 Councilmember Nithya Raman, they thought the project had been put on hold, only to see it revived in response to pressure from Safer Streets LA.

Which, according to their website, exists to “Stop red light camera rip-offs,” and “Stop the plan to impose speed cameras on California.”

Nowhere on their site can I find any support for bike lanes or lane reductions on Forest Lawn. Or anywhere else, for that matter.

Yet, written in black and white on the walls of cyberspace.

Two years ago, in 2024, (Mount Sinai General Manager Randy) Schwab met with Councilmember Nithya Raman to explain the potential impact on the two cemeteries and the traffic congestion the plan could create. “At the time she promised not to do it, but then I think Safer Streets LA got in touch with her and convinced her that it should be brought back.”

So we apparently owe them our thanks for their hard work and dedication to improve safety for us all, even as they try to make the streets more dangerous.

In fact, the plan has long been in the works due to the inherent dangers of the street, as anyone who has tried to use the painted lanes could testify.

The Journal contacted Councilmember Raman’s office and received the following response: “Forest Lawn Drive provides Angelenos access to key destinations, like Griffith Park and the LA Zoo, and is used by people driving, biking and running. About half of all drivers on Forest Lawn are speeding above the 45 mph legal limit, and at those speeds, a pedestrian or bicyclist struck by a car has a 50% chance of being killed. That is not acceptable, and we have been working to change it.”

Her office said the Forest Lawn Drive Safety & Mobility Project is intended to address these safety concerns by reducing vehicle speeds, adding physical protection for cyclists, and improving conditions for all users of the corridor. It also said the plan includes improved turns for both cemeteries and the Junior Achievement Center. A Raman spokesperson said issues raised by cemetery representatives were taken into account during the design process, and LADOT’s proposal includes expanded turn lanes.

Let that first paragraph sink in.

On a roadway commonly used by bike riders, as well as mourners on their way to visit or say farewell to loved ones, more than half of all drivers exceed the already too high 45 mph speed limit, turning the curving street in their own personal speedway.

Yet the cemeteries continue to fight changes that would benefit their own visitors, in what can only be seen as an apparent attempt to drive up business.

So, thanks Safer Streets LA.

We owe you one, apparently.

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Let’s consider this statement from New York’s former DOT Commissioner, as Gothamist wonders whether Mayor Zohran Mamdani is the city’s first real Bike Mayor.

“I think it’s taken a long time, but I think the politics have really caught up with the people,” said Janette Sadik-Khan, the transportation commissioner under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “Not so long ago, a lot of these ideas seemed like they were crazy, and today, a mayor who rides a bike for fun and for transportation is just another part of New York.”

So there may be hope for us yet.

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The rescheduled memorial for three people killed when an elderly driver crashed through the 99 Ranch Market on Westwood Blvd in February will be held this Saturday.

Here’s a press release from Streets Are For Everyone announcing the event. And if you haven’t signed the letter demanding a Traffic Violence State of Emergency in the City of Los Angeles, there’s still time before it’s released at the event.

THREE GHOST TIRES TO BE PLACED BY THE COMMUNITY
HONORING VICTIMS OF 99 RANCH MARKET MASS TRAFFIC FATALITY EVENT,
CALLS FOR STATE OF EMERGENCY

LOS ANGELES, CA – On Saturday, May 9th, Streets Are For Everyone (SAFE), People’s Vision Zero, family members of those lost, and community members will be holding a press conference and placing three Ghost Tires to honor the three lives lost and six people seriously injured in the mass traffic fatality event outside 99 Ranch Market on February 5th, 2026. They will also be addressing a second mass traffic fatality near Vista Del Mar on May 3rd, 2026, which killed two more people, including a one-year-old child, and left two others seriously injured. Speakers will call on the LA Mayor and City Council to declare a state of emergency due to traffic violence in Los Angeles.

Ghost tires will be decorated and placed at the site as a memorial to those killed. Victim family members and their legal representatives will address the press, followed by advocates and community leaders.

WHAT:   Ghost Tire Memorial and Press Conference honoring victims of the 99 Ranch Market mass traffic fatality and calling for emergency action on traffic violence in Los Angeles.

WHEN:   Saturday, May 9, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 11:20 AM

WHERE:  1360 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

WHO:

  • Family members of those lost
  • Damian Kevitt, Founder and Executive Director of SAFE
  • Jonny Hale, People’s Vision Zero
  • Phoebe Kiekhofer, SAFE Families

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As long as we’re doing press releases, the Orange County Transportation Authority, aka OCTA, is holding a Bike Month Ride Along next week. And yes, I could write about it instead of just reposting the press release, but I’m getting lazy and fond of sleep in my old age.

OCTA Rolls out Bike Month 2026, Ride Along May 13
Annual Bike Rally features a 4-mile ride and prize opportunities, and pledge to bike during May for a chance to win an e-bike while staying active

ORANGE – OCTA is celebrating Bike Month this May by encouraging people across Orange County to get out and ride, whether for commuting, recreation or short everyday trips. The monthlong campaign highlights the benefits of biking as a convenient, healthy and sustainable way to travel.

As part of the celebration, OCTA will host its annual Bike Rally at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 13, featuring a 4-mile group ride from the Orange Metrolink Station to OCTA headquarters in Orange.

The rally serves as a signature Bike Month event, bringing riders together for a shared experience on city streets while showcasing how easy and accessible biking can be throughout the county. Participants will be entered for a chance to win an Aventon Pace 4 Step-Through e-bike, valued at $1,799, along with other prizes. Riders will also receive free Bike Month T-shirts and light snacks while supplies last.

Those who pledge to ride a bike during May will be entered for a chance to win an Aventon Soltera 2.5 e-bike, valued at $1,199, courtesy of Bike Month sponsors Aventon E-bikes and Spectrumotion.

Beyond Bike Month, OCTA continues to invest in active transportation infrastructure and programs that make it safer and more convenient for people to walk and bike throughout Orange County. Working in partnership with local cities and the county, OCTA helps fund and deliver projects such as protected bike lanes, regional trail connections and first- and last-mile improvements that link neighborhoods to transit.

These efforts are designed to reduce reliance on cars, improve air quality and support healthier, more active communities.

OCTA is also encouraging riders to make safety a priority. An e-bike safety video is available with tips for riding responsibly, and those who watch can be entered for a chance to win a $100 gift card.

Together, these efforts are designed to inspire more people to consider biking as an easy, efficient and environmentally friendly way to get around.

For more information about Bike Month and to participate in the Bike Rally, visit www.octa.net/bikemonth.

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

No bias here. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration offers tips to keep bike riders safe on the roadways by offering advice for…bike riders. People in the big, dangerous machines, carry on.

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

A Singapore woman was criticized as “irresponsible and brainless” for riding her bike through a busy intersection with her Shiba Inu dog running behind on a leash, despite the hot pavement. I’ve never been a fan of riding with your dog on a leash, which poses too many opportunities for something to go drastically wrong, even if it is an easy way to exercise your dog. Or may over exercise it, because a dog will run itself to death to please you. 

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Local 

Streetsblog considers how the new extension to the D Line, aka Purple Line, could change the way Angelenos get around.

 

State

A Seal Beach cop responds to a question about ebikes on the sidewalk, reminding readers that ebikes are banned from walkways under city ordinances, and that not everything called an ebike actually is one under California law. Although I’m not sure some of the state ebike requirements he mentions have actually passed the legislature yet, let alone been signed into law. 

Elementary school kids in San Francisco participated in bike buses on this week for Bike and Roll to School Week.

 

National

You know we’re making progress when they’re celebrating Bike Month and Bike to Work Day in the dusty, windswept cowtown college town of Laramie, Wyoming. I say that with all fondness, having grown up in the home of their collegiate arch rivals, about 40 miles away.

Another longtime bike shop is closing its doors, this time in St. Paul, Minnesota; Grand Performance owner and former USA Cycling National Team member Dan Casebeer has owned the shop since setting the US hour record in 1983.

Singer Amy Grant is one of us once again, riding a bicycle for the first time in four years after suffering a severe traumatic brain injury when she hit a pothole while riding her bike in Nashville in 2022. And yes, she was wearing a helmet when she fell.

A Boston bike lawyer and blogger says overall, the city is getting safer for bicyclists, even if dooring remains deadly. While dooring is one of the most common types of bicycling collisions, it’s rarely deadly, amounting to roughly one to 3 percent of bicycling deaths each year. Although one is still one too many. 

A Massachusetts woman has won an international grant competition with her design to put a roof over a local bike co-op, which currently works out of two disconnected shipping containers.

Police in Bay Ridge, New York are looking for the man who pushed a 13-year old boy off his ebike, apparently for the crime of riding on the sidewalk; fortunately, the kid escaped with just minor lacerations. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with some people?

 

International

This is why people keep dying on the roadways. A British pub owner was fined the equivalent of $900 and had his liquor license suspended for a whole three months for knowingly serving a 16-year old kid five pints of a strong lager, before the kid was killed when he drove his four-wheeled farm vehicle off the road on the way home.

A father and son duo from the UK set three world records with their 400-day, 18,600-mile ride around the world — and avoided arrest in a forbidden China county when one of the cops recognized them from their social media posts, sending them on their way after posing for selfies.

They get it. The Irish Examiner says riding a bicycle is one of the best ways for men to maintain their health as they age, from “improving cardiovascular health and muscle strength to boosting testosterone and lowering stress.” Hint: It works for women, too. 

German bike magazine Tour tests out the best bikes for the equivalent of under a grand.

 

Competitive Cycling

Cyclist examines the top contenders for this year’s Giro d’Italia, which kicks off today with a 91-mile stage in Bulgaria. Yes, Bulgaria.

Cycling News does much the same, offering a team-by-team look at the Giro competitors.

Submitted without comment. Much of the planned Lotto-Intermarché risked missing the Giro, including Belgian sprinter Arnaud De Lie, after they fell ill from a cow dung infection — yes, cow dung — during the rain-soaked Famenne Ardenne Classic.

Dutch cyclist Jan-Willem van Schip says he feels unwelcome in road cycling, after he was booted from a race for the second time in eight months, and the fourth time in five years, for an unusual and, by UCI standards, illegal handlebar setup and seat position.

 

Finally…

When you get arrested for bike theft, it’s usually not the best idea to issue death threats to the arresting officers. Probably not the best idea to fire three shots at your girlfriend because her mother won’t help take an ebike out of the trunk, either.

And that feeling when you’re somehow walking while riding.

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And yes, spellcheck, “spokescorgi” is a real word that I made up. 

While we’re at it, let’s all thank Steve for making this site so much more attractive and work a lot better, especially if you’re viewing it on a phone. 

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Facebook group kvetches over Better Overland Project, WeHo approves ebike incentives, and KTLA insists Pomona boy was on an ebike

April 22, 2026 / / 2 comments

I lost my internet connection just as I was getting ready to post this. So I’m going to try to post it using my phone.

Hopefully you’ll get this, but I can’t promise everything will post correctly or no errors will get through.

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Evidently, not everyone is in favor of the Better Overland Project.

The plan to build a Complete Street and protected bike lanes on the lower section of Overland Avenue has drawn its share of detractors to a Facebook group calling to “SAVE Overland Ave in Culver CIty.”

Even though that’s exactly what proponents are trying to do. Apparently, they don’t grasp the concept that drivers and local residents, including older people, benefit from safer streets, too.

Then again, the group only has a measly 215 members right now. So maybe instead of torches and pitchforks, it’s just matches and spades this time.

Thanks to Adrian for the heads-up.

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Thanks to Andrew for forwarding news on Bluesky that West Hollywood will become the latest Southern California city to offer its own ebike incentive program, with eligible residents able to claim up to $2,000 towards one.

Meanwhile, Los Angeles joins California in continuing to offer eligible residents absolutely nothing.

Unfortunately, Bluesky seems to be having yet another of their recent service outages, so you may have to just take my word for it, unless the post below miraculously shows up, or the above link actually works. Otherwise, I’ll try again tomorrow.

https://bsky.app/profile/solomonweho.bsky.social/post/3mjzewlcrkk2f

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KTLA-5 continues to insist that Angel Roman Mendoza Lopez, the 13-year old boy killed by a driver in Pomona last week, was riding an ebike, even though other sources say he was riding an e-scooter.

Although it’s possible he was on a sit-down scooter, which would make both kinda right.

Meanwhile, the crowdfunding campaign to benefit his family has now raised over $16,000, while the goal has been increase to $25,000.

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A Belgian short track skater and amateur cyclist shares video of a 45-minute line waiting to ride up a climb in last weekend’s Amstel Gold sportive, making it look more like an amusement park than a bike race.

But at least you didn’t have to be “this tall to ride this ride.”

Instagram post

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Local 

Metro is offering free transit and bikeshare ride to mark today’s Earth Day. Or as it’s known in most of Los Angeles, Wednesday. 

LAist looks at the city’s plans for a “low-stress” walking and biking route for Koreatown and Pico Union in time for the ’28 Olympics.

Streetsblog reminds us about Sunday’s West LA CicLAvia, the popular open streets event’s first visit to Westwood.

The Pasadena Transportation Advisory Commission will receive an informational presentation on Pasadena Bike Month at their Thursday meeting, with events ranging from a beginner’s bagel ride to an ebike expo at the Rose Bowl. Meanwhile, that deafening silence you hear is the plans for Bike Month in Los Angeles.

 

State

Singletracks highlights the most amazing and/or weird mountain bike components and accessories from Monterey’s Sea Otter Classic. Including one device that looks like something the bomb squad would disable.

Two people in their late teens suffered non-life threatening injuries when a Daly City cop struck the ebike they were sharing. Although it’s kind of refreshing that the cops didn’t immediately blame the victims, for a change.

 

National

Thanks, Donald. German ebike and cargo bikemaker Riese & Müller announced it’s pulling out of the US due to market volatility caused by the constantly changing tariffs, including a 50% tariff on steel.

Honolulu bicyclists complain that it’s taking too long to replace curbing, bike lane delineators and green paint marking a two-way separated bike lane after the street was repaved.

A review of Seattle’s Vision Zero plan shows the city still isn’t making enough safety improvements, and hasn’t done enough to improve safety on the the streets with the highest rates of serious injuries and deaths for pedestrians and bike riders.

That’s more like it. Sheriff’s deputies made an arrest four-and-a-half years after a 29-year old man riding a bicycle was killed by a hit-and-run driver in my bike-friendly Colorado hometown, continuing to investigate until they had enough evidence to get an arrest warrant; the suspect was booked on charges of leaving the scene of an accident involving death and insurance fraud. Seriously, when was the last time you heard of LA cops or sheriff’s deputies arresting a hit-and-run suspect after four-and-a-half months, let alone four-and-a-half years?

An op-ed from a Louisville KY bicyclist and triathlete says that bike riders in the city don’t want “more ill-conceived bike lanes,” insisting that what they really want is for drivers to share the road and pass safely, while bike riders need to obey the law and pull over to let long lines of cars pass them. Except there’s a 100-year plus track record showing too many drivers are incapable of sharing the road safely, which is exactly why we need bike lanes. 

A Pittsburgh bike group tells locals and out-of-towners to forget the car, and ride a bike to this week’s NFL Draft.

DC bike riders will still have a safe route connecting downtown Washington to the Tidal Basin, after a judge issued a 61-page opinion putting a hold on plans to rip out a separated bike lane and require the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration to conduct a more thorough review of the Trump administration’s plans to make the tourist-heavy area more accommodating to drivers.

Life is cheap in North Carolina, where the grandson of legendary Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski was charged with misdemeanor DUI after killing a 15-year old boy riding a bicycle; evidently, drunk driving runs in the family. Something is seriously wrong when killing another human being while drunk, let alone a kid, doesn’t even merit a felony charge. 

 

International

Bike Radar ranks the best bicycles of the 1990s, all of which are road bikes, and most of which even look like one.

No surprise here, as a study in the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation suggests that bicycling is an effective way to cope with fluctuating gas prices.

Londoners will once again turn to their bicycles as Tube drivers go on strike for four days.

A new study from the European Transport Safety Council says too many people are still getting killed on bicycles in the European Union, but that slower streets and protected bike lanes could help lower to toll.

An Indian man spent the last seven years riding across the vast country, planting saplings and trying to connect with everyone he met to call attention to looming threats to the environment.

No bias here. An Australian ad announcing the country is now at Level Two of the ‘National Fuel Security Plan’ due to the fuel crisis fueled by the war in Iran devotes a whole 1.5 seconds to using a bicycle, and the other 28.5 seconds to using your car more wisely, instead of not using it at all.

 

Competitive Cycling

Two-time Belgian Olympic speed skater Sandrine Tas will make her professional cycling debut with the Lotto Intermarché Ladies cycling team at today’s La Flèche Wallonne Femmes.

 

Finally…

That feeling when it costs the equivalent of a 27¢ toll to ride where bikes aren’t even allowed. Your next ebike could have no gears and ride in reverse. Who says you have to carbo load before you ride?

And probably not the best idea to steal a police bike during the Boston Marathon.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Arrest made in road-rage harassment of OC bicyclists, Trump halting bike lane funding, and K Line extension okayed

March 27, 2026 / / No comments

My apology to everyone who received an earlier email containing nothing but an outline.

Evidently, I hit the wrong button, and posted it instead of saving it so I could keep working.

And yes, I freely admit to being an idiot, or any other term that feels most appropriate rolling off your lips.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. 

Now let’s get on with it.

Photo by Kindel Media for Pexels. 

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Evidently, Newport Beach cops were paying attention.

Earlier this week, we brought you the news that cyclists Ben Byra and U-23 national crit champ Luke Fetzer were harassed and threatened by a BMW driver who tried to run them off the road while on a training ride in Newport Beach.

At last count, their videos of the attack have been seen over 10 million times by people all over the world.

One of those viewers must have been someone in the police department, because a suspect is now under arrest for the alleged road rage attack.

According to a press release from the Newport Beach Police Department reposted on Fetzer’s Instagram account, a man identified as Corona resident Samir Weiss was busted for assault with a deadly weapon, as well as a charge for obstructing traffic.

They seized the weapon used in the attack as evidence — Weiss’ blue BMW M3.

Instagram post

The obstruction charge was explained by the Orange County Register.

Video footage of the incident shows the blue sedan driving behind the cyclists in a bike lane, accelerating and honking. At one point, Fetzer’s friend is seen jumping onto a curb with his bike, apparently to avoid the vehicle. The footage also appears to show a passenger throwing water at Fetzer.

According to Fetzer, the situation escalated a few miles later near a Shake Shack, where the driver and several others exited their vehicles and confronted the cyclists. Fetzer said the driver and four other people blocked traffic lanes, made threats and attempted to tackle them off their bikes.

Bizarrely, Fetzer told the Register that Weiss had reached out to him. Not to apologize, as you might think, but to challenge him to fight, MMA style.

Fetzer also shared what he said was a direct message from the driver after the incident.

“Hey bro let’s both sign waivers and meetup for a consensual Full MMA sparring session,” the message reads. “Let’s settle this like men.”

However, I’ve always thought of fighting as something that happened back behind the grade school playground at recess or after class let out for the day.

Although despite the way KCBS frames it, the message didn’t rise to the level of an actual threat, legally at least, since it was framed as a challenge.

But as I learned after reporting an apparent threat I received on here to the LAPD, someone has to actually say they’re going to harm you, rather than just saying they want to.

Or challenging you to “settle it like men.”

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Transportation for America warns that not only is the Trump administration trying to rip out a popular DC bike lane to make more room for cars, they’re trying to do the same thing across the country by cutting off funding before the lanes can even be built.

Not what you’d expect from the bicycle-loving founder of the infamous Tour de Trump, though.

Right?

Meanwhile. Scripps News reports that Congress is now looking at setting nationwide ebike safety standards, which will probably be enforced by masked ICE agents.

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The Metro Board approved the northern extension of the K Line Cedars-Sinai, West Hollywood and the Hollywood Bowl, after a last-minute agreement to allow work on obtaining funding to move forward, while an additional one-year study of the effects of tunneling in the area around Lafayette Square is conducted.

According to the Los Angeles Times,

However, in the 24 hours before Thursday’s meeting, Bass met several times behind the scenes with West Hollywood Mayor John Heilman, a major backer of the K Line extension, to come up with an amended motion that allows West Hollywood and L.A. County to work on securing funding that will allow the project to accelerate while also calling for additional study of the Mid-City section and community engagement. The new amendment, Bass stressed before the board voted in favor, would not delay the project or its funding…

Explaining her push for a compromise, Bass said that Lafayette Square is one of Los Angeles’s most significant historic Black neighborhoods. She recounted the history of nearby Sugar Hill, a once thriving Black community that was “profoundly disrupted” by the construction of the 10 freeway.

The difference, of course, is that the Sugar Hill neighborhood was razed by white city leaders who saw no value in a Black community, while the train will go deep underneath the existing homes.

And to the best of my knowledge, won’t involve destroying an inch of the historic neighborhood.

But still.

No one wants to see historically Black neighborhoods harmed. So if it takes yet another study to calm fears while the project moves forward, so be it.

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Good news for our neighbor to the south, who can really use it.

Bluesky post

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Shifter discusses five bicycle advocacy mistakes you didn’t even know you’re making, from thinking it’s you versus the world, to making sure that political leaders who say “no” suffer consequences for their decisions.

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Local 

The LA Times recommends an eight-mile bike ride to Cudahy with climate justice nonprofit Nature for All tomorrow. (Scroll down. No, keep scrolling.)

Get ready for yet-another bicycle and pedestrian safety enforcement operation in Santa Monica tomorrow, with cops set to ticket any traffic violations that could endanger either one, regardless of who commits it or why. So once again, ride to the letter of the law until you cross back into Los Angeles or Culver City, so you’re not the one who gets written up. 

A local letter writer says Agoura is doing absolutely nothing about all those “little juvenile delinquents riding around in their (e)bikes.” Although when I was a juvenile delinquent, I always preferred to ride on my bike, not in it.

An El Segundo man was arrested for restriping crosswalks and adding his own DIY stop signs to protect children in the neighborhood, after the city decided the street didn’t have enough traffic to warrant actually doing anything about it.

 

State

Calbike is hosting a webinar April 6th on designing bike infrastructure for heat, flooding, and usability. As long as that last part includes fixing potholes and keeping cars out, I’m in.

A San Diego op-ed from a pair of local bike advocates responds to a previous argument against plans for a bike lane on Governor Drive in the University City neighborhood, saying there’s simply no other place to put it.

Speaking of juvenile delinquents, thanks to The Acorn for making it clear that the kid who was arrested after leading the cops on a wild chase was riding an “off-highway electric motorcycle,” rather than anything the state defines as an ebike.

The Great Redwood Trail Agency board approved a master plan to design and construct a 300-mile rail-to-trail project through the California wine country and ancient tall timbers, from Humboldt to San Francisco.

 

National

Washington State is rebooting their ebike rebate program, offering vouchers up to $1,200. That compares favorably to California, which no longer has an ebike program because CARB stole all the money and gave it to buyers of electric cars and trucks, forgetting that ebikes are EVs that help get other EVs and gas-burning vehicles off the roads. Schmucks. 

Texas is reminding drivers of their “Be Safe. Drive Smart” safety campaign to protect bicyclists and other vulnerable road users. Which replaces the previous slogan “Get the **** outta the way of my truck!”

Wisconsin offers safety tips for bicyclists, which mostly make sense for a change, noting that “in 2024, a bicyclist was killed or hurt about every 11 hours” in the state. Damn, that guy should be more careful.

Former Chicago Bulls basketball great and AA baseball player Michael Jordan was one of us, turning a bike ride with Chicago Bears defensive end Richard Dent into a pain-inducing 30-mile challenge.

For the 11th consecutive year, you can ride a bike to the Indianapolis 500, but only if you buy a ticket for the ride, never mind the race.

While Los Angeles has talked about getting ready for the World Cup, New York is actually doing something about it by opening a new bike lane connecting Union Square and the Brooklyn Bridge in time for this summer’s Copa Mundial.

Speaking of New York, when was the last time you saw an American mayor ride a bikeshare bike seven miles to attend an important fundraiser? I vote for never. But maybe your memory is different from mine. 

 

International

Momentum observes that the biggest bikeshare systems are transforming cities around the world, and safe bicycling networks matter.

A London man says he can’t even remember the birth of his own son after he faceplanted while riding his bike, trying to avoid someone who landed in front of him after jumping out the emergency exit on a double decker bus.

A new German study found that while ebikes can help older people ride a bike, older men without helmets face a particularly high risk of serious brain injuries. Gee, ya think?

 

Competitive Cycling

Former European ‘cross champ Eli Iserbyt was forced to call it a career, as the 28-year old Belgian cyclist announced that doctors had advised him to stop riding entirely due to years of persistent blood flow problems.

A writer for Psychology Today responds to rumors about Tadej Pogačar’s win in Milan–San Remo, arguing that while we should never forget previous doping incidents, suspicion can become a psychological defense, and “If every new level is interpreted only through the past, then the past begins to limit the future.” Yeah, what he said.

 

Finally…

Apparently, you have more in common with a horse than you might think (and not just a nasty case of foot and mouth). Now you, too, can build your very own bicycle designed to survive the next apocalypse.

And just because you can take an urban ebike off-roading doesn’t mean you should.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Fountain Ave opponents pack WeHo meeting, safer connections to Westside bus lanes, and Nithya supports bike safety

March 23, 2026 / / One comment

We’re going to take little different approach today, because we have a lot of ground to cover, and only limited time to do it. 

So let’s focus on a number of top stories and meetings, and save our usual links for tomorrow. 

Today’s photo show Blake Ackerman’s fiancee writing a message on his ghost bike on Fountain Avenue. 

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Debate over a safety makeover of Fountain Avenue continues to raise its ugly head, seven months after Blake Ackerman lost his life on the deadly corridor.

And six months after we thought it had been approved once and for all.

Following years of unanimous votes of the city council to move the project forward, the West Hollywood City Council approved building protected bike lanes on the corridor in a split 3 – 2 vote in September of last year, following a highly contentious council meeting.

Ackerman’s needless death in a hit-and-run while riding his bike home from work occurred exactly where the protected bike lane would have gone in years before, if not for the endless debate over the project.

And that had seemed to seal the decision to move forward with the project.

Yet WeHo Online reports opponents came back to pack last Wednesday’s meeting of the city’s Transportation and Mobility Commission.

Although most of the article is devoted to a recap of September’s debate. And none of that recap even mentions Ackerman, or anyone else killed or injured on or near the deadly street.

According to the paper, the overall message from the people attending the meeting was “put the project on hold until the serious questions get answered.”

Even though it’s been on hold for years, while people continue to die and get injured.

Among those are the ongoing concerns over parking, as well as worries that property values for homeowners will drop — even though studies have repeatedly shown that property values usually increase along either side of a corridor after a Complete Streets project goes in.

And even though the meeting was packed with project opponents because most of the larger community didn’t even know about the meeting, because the project had already been approved six months earlier, and no action was to be taken at the meeting.

As I read the story, though, I also wondered if the opposition voiced at the meeting would have been so overwhelming if the friends and family of Blake Ackerman had been aware of it. Never mind the safety advocates and the larger bicycling community.

The paper pointed to an upcoming May or June meeting, the exact date still to be determined, when a contract to build the protected bike lanes is set to be approved.

It’s clear we’ll have to come back once again then to defend, and fight for, a project to save lives on the deadly corridor.

Because that seems to have been completely ignored at Wednesday’s meeting. And likely will be again if we don’t show up in force when the final contract gets approved.

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Streets For All sent out a notice about what’s missing from the Westside Cities Council of Governments recent announcement of plans for bus lanes throughout the Westside.

Namely, safe ways to get to them.

The Westside Cities Council of Governments is moving forward with a plan to make buses faster and more reliable on some of the region’s busiest corridors! But right now, the plan is missing something fundamental: how people actually get to transit. There are still no safe, continuous north-south bike connections linking these corridors to the broader system — including the E Line and D Line.

This means a lot of people are stuck driving to transit. We can fix that – WSCCOG needs to hear from you telling them to include bicycle facilities in these plans. 

HOW YOU CAN HELP

  • 🏛️ BEST: Show up in person and make public comment
    • Wednesday, March 25 (6–8pm)
      West Hollywood Park Aquatics Center
      8750 El Tovar Pl
      West Hollywood, CA 90069
    • Saturday, March 28 (9:30–11:30am)
      Culver City Senior Center
      4095 Overland Ave
      Culver City, CA 90232
  • 📧 OTHERWISE: Send an email
    • If you can’t make it in person, send an email

SEND AN EMAIL [CUSTOMIZE THE BOTTOM!]

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Thanks to Andrew for pointing me to this recent video from Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, after I had posted online that I won’t vote for anyone who doesn’t commit to implementing Measure HLA, as well as recommitting the city to Vision Zero.

This may not be the ironclad commitment I have been looking for, but it’s pretty damn close. And we can push her for that commitment if she wants to be mayor.

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Dr. Grace Peng, who lives and rides in the South Bay, offers recap of a recent bike trip.

You can click through for the rest of the story. But for today, we’re going to focus on wha passes for bike safety infrastructure in far too much of Los Angeles, and Southern California in general, with only a thin stripe of white paint to protect bike riders from traffic limited to 55 mph.

Never mind that we all know many, if not most, motorists exceed the posted speed limit, whether by a little or a lot.

CD11 Councilmember Traci Park recently expressed her concern for the safety of bicyclists, even if it took the death of Regan Cole-Graham and her unborn baby Ophelia to prompt her.

Now is exactly the time to push her to commit to real bike and pedestrian safety throughout her district, when she needs our support to continue representing it.

Or move to back someone else who does.

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The LA City Council’s Transportation Committee meets at 8:45 Wednesday morning, and need to hear from us to keep the pressure on to commit to safer streets for all of us.

And the aforementioned Traci Park is vice chair of the committee.

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Okay, so maybe this isn’t directly bike-related.

But Mayor Bass has once again stood with NIMBYs, and against supporters of non-motor vehicle traffic, by opposing the route selected by Metro staffers for the Northern Extension of the K Line.

Not only will this route result in the highest ridership, it will finally connect major centers like The Grove, the Beverly Center, Cedars-Sinai, WeHo’s Rainbow District, Hollywood and Highland, and the Hollywood Bowl.

At the same time, it would provide vital connections with the Red (B), Purple (D) and Expo (E) Lines, making genuine crosstown travel by train possible without having to first go downtown.

So make your voice heard by Thursday, before this gets delayed yet again.

https://twitter.com/streetsforall/status/2035369445208846817

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This is your chance to support the Sunset For All Complete Streets project, as well as other safety improvements on the inevitably soon to be renamed Cesar Chavez.

Which right now might as well be named Jeffrey Epstein Blvd, despite everything Chavez did to support farmworkers and Latino & Latina civil rights.

And even though Chavez had been a personal hero of mine for most of my life.

https://twitter.com/heybikela/status/2034697346479792370

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Finally, good news from Paris, where mayoral candidate Emmanuel Grégoire was elected to continue the bike and environmentally friendly reforms begun by outgoing Mayor Anne Hidalgo, winning with 52% of the popular vote to replace her.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Bike rider gets doored — and blamed — in WeHo, CicLAvia unveils new West LA route, and South Pas passes on protection

March 2, 2026 / / Comments Off on Bike rider gets doored — and blamed — in WeHo, CicLAvia unveils new West LA route, and South Pas passes on protection

A bike rider was doored in West Hollywood Sunday morning. And naturally, the guy on the bike got the blame.

According to WeHo Online, the crash occurred at 8275 Santa Monica Blvd, across from Hamburger Mary’s, around 11:17 am.

A witness said the victim cut through between two cars, one parked and the other in the right lane, when the driver threw open his door right in front of the victim. “He literally just cut through,” she said. “This guy was opening the door, and there’s no way he could have seen the biker try to cut through the two cars.”

Unless, of course, the driver checked his mirror or looked behind him before opening his door.

According the website, the bike rider was expected to be okay, but his vintage road bike was totaled. And the car door didn’t fare too well, either.

Bicyclists are legally allowed to split lanes like that in California. Though it’s more prudent to ride outside the door zone, for reasons exactly like that.

The road is slated to get a green, painted bike lane. However, if it’s like the bike lanes further west on the boulevard, it will still place bikes directly in the door zone.

WeHo Online ends the story like this, showing that they get it, anyway.

Dooring — when a driver or passenger opens a vehicle door into the path of an oncoming cyclist — is one of the leading causes of bicycle injuries in urban areas. California law requires drivers to check for cyclists before opening a door, but enforcement is rare, sadly, for all involved, crashes like Sunday’s are not.

There’s no word on whether the driver was ticketed. Or if, like the witness, sheriff’s deputies blamed the victim, too.

Image by DJ_Moertel from Pixabay.

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CicLAvia has announced the first two events of 2026, starting with a CivSalon next week, and a new route connecting Santa Monica Blvd and Westwood in West LA next month.

Although if they’ve posted anything about the former online yet, I can’t find it.

https://twitter.com/CicLAvia/status/2027519213296914491

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South Pasadena stands accused of going from the promised protected bike lanes to…sharrows, which have been shown to literally be worse than nothing.

Let them know what you think about that.

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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

(“The more things change, the more they stay the same,” for anyone who’s forgotten high school French or philosophy.)

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Gravel Bike California fights the freeze in LA County.

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

A Toronto bike rider was doored by a cop, then blamed for the crash — without doing anything wrong.

No bias here. Someone opposed to a Cork, Ireland bike lane set up a crowdfunding page to pay legal fees to fight the “Gaza destruction project that is active travel;” after 20 days, it has raised the equivalent of a measly $463.

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

A former British Big Brother winner went on the attack against people riding bicycles on park trails “at Tour de France speeds,” and getting “absolutely furious” at dogs wandering across the trail. Admittedly, as one of the commenters said, you should always slow down around dogs and children because they are utterly unpredictable, and prone to running out in front of you at any time. On the other hand, it’s up to dog owners to keep their dogs leashed and under control, if only because it’s their responsibility to keep their pet safe. 

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Local 

KCBS-2 and KTLA-5 report on Friday’s Critical Mass ride in honor of fallen bicyclist and mom Regan Cole-Graham and her unborn daughter Ophelia, who were killed riding an ebike in Playa del Rey; they were killed by an 87-year old driver on Pershing Drive, where a road diet and bike lanes were installed in 2017, then removed a few months later because a relative handful of pass-through commuters complained.

Hundreds of bicyclists turned out on Saturday for the annual Chinatown Firecracker run and bike ride to mark the year of the Fire Horse.

 

State

The ebike industry is backing California’s SB 1167 to separate the ped-assist ebikes from electric motorbikes.

A 34-year old man riding a Class 2 ped-assist ebike suffered serious injuries in San Diego’s Southcrest neighborhood Saturday morning, when he allegedly rode through a stop sign and was broadsided by a driver crossing on the cross street; the victim suffered multiple broken bones, including a fractured vertebrae, jaw, multiple ribs and left wrist.

Seventy kids took home new bicyclists in Goleta on Saturday, thanks to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County and primary fundraiser Kirk Greene, who raised close to $17,000 by riding over 6,200 miles for the 2025 Bike4Kids campaign.

Around 150 people turned out for San Francisco’s first-ever Bayview Black History Month bike ride on Saturday.

 

National

The Southern Nevada Bicycle Coalition launched the third phase of their Let’s Get There Together campaign, urging everyone to “slow down, look twice, be respectful, and follow the rules of the road,”

That’s more like it. Oklahoma is building a walkable, bikeable masterplanned community on the shores of Lake Eufaula, designed so a car isn’t needed for people who live and work there.

Road.cc takes a look back at the first Trek built, a hand-brazed, steel-frame sport touring bike built in a Wisconsin barn in 1976.

 

International

Road.cc recommends the world’s steepest, hardest and most fearsome road gradients to put on your bike bucket list.

Congratulations to World Bicycle Relief, which has now put its one millionth heavy-duty Buffalo Bike on the roads of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Reuters says Havana is experiencing yet another bike boom, as the US cuts off Cuba’s oil supply.

A “self-confessed leisure cyclist” recounts his five-day, Lycra-free ebike journey from London to Paris.

Dutch prosecutors are appealing the acquittal of two manufacturers of Stint e-cargo bikes for culpability in the death of four children, who were killed when the brakes failed on the ebike while a daycare worker was taking five kids to school, and she rode into the path of an oncoming train; only the daycare worker and one of the children survived. Prosecutors can’t appeal an acquittal in the US, but it’s more common in European courts.

Here’s another one for your bike bucket list. The 450-mile La Voie Bleue bikeway stretching from the Luxembourg border to Lyon, France has been voted the most beautiful long-distance bicycling route in Europe.

Yet another study shows that ebikes aren’t cheating, as Spanish researchers compared e-mountain bikes to regular mountain bikes, concluding it’s the terrain and level of assistance that matters, not whether or not the bike has an engine.

A 30-year old South African man is attempting to set a world record riding 6,200 miles from Cairo to Cape Town to raise funds for a grocer trying to create jobs for about ten thousand young people.

 

Competitive Cycling

Reputed cycling superstar in-waiting Paul Seixas soloed to victory at the Faun-Ardèche Classic with a more than 28-mile breakaway on Saturday.

Saturday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad turned into a demolition derby, with 39 riders failing to finish the men’s race and 28 in the women’s, including Swiss cyclist Stefan Küng, who required surgery for a broken leg.

As for the race itself, European champ Demi Vollering outsprinted Polish champ Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney to win the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in a two-woman breakaway, while Mathieu van der Poel soloed to the win with a ten-mile attack on the men’s side.

Twenty-year old British cyclist and former Junior World Track Cycling Champ Matthew Brennan scored an impressive victory in his debut with Visma-Lease a Bike, sprinting to victory in Sunday’s Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.

Also on Sunday, France’s Romain Grégoire claimed the Faun Drôme Classic, outsprinting American Matteo Jorgenson on an uphill finish following a ten-mile, two-man breakaway.

Road.cc reminisces about the crappy kits of yore.

 

Finally…

If you can’t park a car, maybe you should ride a bike — or just ride a bike, period. If you’re carrying a loaded gun and over an ounce of coke on your bike, with two prior felony convictions, maybe obey the damn traffic laws.

And that feeling when you crash your bike and go to the ER, but your 28 buck lipstick is still perfect.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

 

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WeHo bike lanes going green, and new CA bill would cap ebike speeds and reclassify more powerful ebikes as motorbikes

January 15, 2026 / / One comment

West Hollywood will paint existing bike lanes on Santa Monica Blvd, Fairfax Ave and San Vicente Blvd green to increase their visibility.

It will be that particular shade known as “Hollywood Green,” allowing filmmakers to work around the color to avoid the disastrous rollout when Los Angeles first went green.

Painting the lanes is probably a good idea, given that most drivers seem to think the Fairfax bike lane is only there to bypass backed-up traffic, seemingly never occurring to them that there might be a bicycle in it.

And usually there isn’t, for exactly that reason.

Green paint isn’t likely to stop those drivers. But at least they’ll have a better idea what law they’re breaking.

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That’s more like it.

A new bill in the state legislature would cap ebike engines at no more than 750 watts while imposing new speed restrictions.

AB 1557 would also reclassify more powerful electric motorbikes as motor-driven cycles, which would require a license to operate.

Maybe then we can finally get everyone to stop calling the damn things ebikes, and blaming all of us for the actions of a relative few teen knuckleheads.

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Streets For All will host a mobility debate for the candidates for city controller next Thursday.

Only one of whom has corgis, which should be a key consideration.

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

An English borough clapped back when drivers complained about paying for the roadway as well as bike lanes, only to be rewarded with a 20 mph speed limit to protect vulnerable road users, replying that motorists don’t pay any more than anyone else and the country hasn’t had a road tax for nearly a century.

No bias here. A British news channel breathlessly announced that bicyclists now think illegally modified ebikes pose a bigger risk to their safety than motor vehicles. Except they left out the word “some,” because only 8% of the people polled believe that — and only 500 people were polled.

No bias here, either. Aussie commenters set their hair on fire when a photo showed a bicyclist riding in a bus lane, insisting that the single rider was somehow “inconveniencing hundreds” during rush hour. Must have been a damn big bus, because no one else in the photo seems to be even a little bit inconvenienced.

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Local 

The Eastsider reminds us that Metro is looking for your comments on closing the gap in the LA River bike path through DTLA, Vernon and Maywood.

Calabasas bike-themed restaurant, bike shop and coffee bar Pedaler’s Fork is opening a second location in LA’s Frogtown, near their existing 10 Speed Coffee and close to the LA River bike path.

Santa Monica will conduct yet another bicycle and pedestrian safety operation from 2 pm to 8 pm today. So ride to the letter of the law until you cross the city limits so you don’t get ticketed. Or just avoid the city entirely this afternoon and evening if you can.

 

State

Calbike has opened registration for April’s biennial California Bicycle Summit in Sacramento.

Oceanside police are pushing for a change in the city’s ebike regulations to prohibit carrying a second rider and allow cops to temporarily seize the ebikes of scofflaw riders. Although once again, they seem to be conflating ped-assist ebikes with illegally modified electric motorbikes and dirt bikes.

A 73-year old Rancho Bernardo man is bicycling around San Diego with his son to interview random people they meet and post the videos online. The story is paywalled, but you can see their videos on their website.

 

National

A New York news site says bicyclists and ebikers continue to exceed Central Park’s 15 mph speed limit, endangering lives, while the speed limit is almost impossible to enforce. Yet the photo shows a couple kids on e-motorbikes with full face helmets, one pulling a wheelie, making it clear that regular bicycles and ped-assist ebikes aren’t the problem. And speed guns work just as well on them as they do with motor vehicles.

Streetsblog says the way to solve the problems in Central Park is to build better bike lanes around the park’s perimeter, so non-recreational riders don’t have to use it as the only safe route across town.

Proof protected bike lanes work. Ridership on a contested Brooklyn bike lane went up 60% after it was protected — even though the former mayor ripped out three blocks of the protection.

Justice denied, as a Salvadoran immigrant faced up to 12 years behind bars for killing a Long Island bike rider in a drunken crash, but was deported before he could be sentenced.

A group of Tampa, Florida mountain bikers are building their own trail, the city’s firstl.

 

International

Bike Radar explains why your ebike battery loses power when it’s cold, with a lithium ion battery having just half the power at 4 below zero Fahrenheit that it does at 77 degrees. Which is not a problem most SoCal riders are likely to have. 

The state of Mexico will invest the equivalent of $6.3 million to build four new bike lanes, as well as six protected intersections in high traffic areas.

London’s Telegraph recommends the ten European bike routes for all skill levels that you should tackle in your lifetime. Particularly if you feel an uncontrollable urge to circumnavigate Iceland. 

A London writer experiences the culture shock of moving from an air-conditioned office to a bicycle delivery service following his fourth layoff in six years, saying he hadn’t counted on get hit by cars and skinheads — let alone seeing the city in a whole new light.

Ireland’s Taoiseach, otherwise known as the country’s prime minister, condemned a judge’s comments that bike riders have made Dublin a nightmare, while the country’s Labour Party filed a formal complaint with the courts.

Cycling Weekly recommends the “unknown” climbs of the Austrian Alps, calling them harder than those of the Tour de France.

More proof protected bike lanes work. A year-old protected bike lane in the Australian state of Tasmania hasn’t had a single bicycling crash since it was installed, despite seeing 6,000 trips each month, while overall crashes on the street have dropped nearly a third.

 

Finally…

Now you, too, can turn your kid’s balance bike into an electric snow trike. That feeling when you have a need to prove you really did it.

And building your granddog his own bike seat. Or a mobile dog house.

Or something.

@louie_and_grandpaw

Spoiled little daschund ! Grandpaw built this custom snoopy inspired dog house from scratch for his grand dog Louie! #daschund #dogsoftiktok #dogtiktok #dogmom

♬ Linus And Lucy – Take 1 – Vince Guaraldi Trio

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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 / / Comments Off on Hit-and-run charge in Ackerman killing, driver kills 2 Texas triathletes, and Imperial Beach teen critically injured by DUI driver
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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Woman injured jumping from DTLA ebike fire, WeHo cuts Fountain speeds, and SF bike rider collateral damage for YouTuber

September 29, 2025 / / Comments Off on Woman injured jumping from DTLA ebike fire, WeHo cuts Fountain speeds, and SF bike rider collateral damage for YouTuber
Day 272 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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A 68-year old woman was injured jumping from a third-floor apartment in Downtown Los Angeles, after an ebike battery caught on fire.

Spontaneous fires have been an ongoing problem with lithium-ion batteries, leading some cities to ban them, while some buildings prohibit ebikes as a result.

Photo by Adonyi Gábor from Pexels.

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West Hollywood is taking additional steps to improve safety on Fountain, including lowering the speed limit by 5 mph and adding leading pedestrian intervals to crossing lights.

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A San Francisco bike rider became collateral damage when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver, who accelerated suddenly after stopping in the middle of the road to record an appearance by YouTube gamer iShowSpeed.

Except a news helicopter just happened to be watching from above, and followed the driver until police arrived.

Oops.

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

A pair of Denver bike riders were hurt when they crashed into a wire gate blocking a bridge, which had been installed by the city with no advance warning, and no notice other than a white Bridge Closed sign, even though it was located on the far side of a blind curve.

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Local 

Urbanize looks forward to CicLAvia’s return to the Heart of LA October 12th.

 

State

Police in Orange County took down a pair of bike thieves, including a Costa Mesa thief who stole a pair of ebikes from a garage and a high-end bike thief caught on surveillance video in Orange.

Kids in Chula Vista form the latest chapter of the two-wheeled United Lowrider Coalition.

Berkeley residents can enter a monthly lottery for up to $1,500 on a new ebike, along with another $250 for locks and accessories.

 

National

Road Bike Rider has advice on how to take part in a group ride when you’re on an ebike and they’re not.

An editor for Outside says he’s now the slow weirdo on the group ride who gets dropped off the back, and he’s good with that.

For the seventh year in a row, Louisiana bike riders rolled on Saturday on a fundraising ride to remember a Baton Rouge Parish councilmember killed by a driver, along with a friend, as they rode their bikes.

Bike riders in New Orleans were invited to join a two-wheeled second line to the polls on the first day of early voting Saturday.

 

International

How to store your bike when you don’t have room to store your bike.

A 35-year old tree surgeon from Liverpool, England quit his job, and set out on a 25,000-mile bike ride around the world.

Twenty-eight percent of London residents say they are now more likely to ride a bike in the future after riding one during the city’s recent Tube strike.

A trio of Scottish friends are reuniting after 40 years to finish their 17,000 mile ride from Chile to Alaska, with the man and two women completing the 800 miles Chile crossing that wasn’t possible when Augusto Pinochet was dictator back in the 80s.

A British man finished a 55-mile ride on his grandmother’s singlespeed step-through bike, complete with basket on the handlebars, riding from London to Brighton to honor the hospice that cared for her in her final days.

The UK’s RLS bike helmet could be the new MIPS.

Bike riders in Copenhagen can catch the green wave, catching nothing but green lights when riding a bike at a relatively sedate 12 mph. Even if it sounds like taking a few puffs before surfing.

Auto Evolution examines why the “ultimate off-road” e-bike dreamed up by a German design firm never made it off the drawing board.

I want to be like him when I grow up. An 80-year old retired physician rode 335 miles across the South Indian subcontinent on a 20-year old bike with two friends, before boarding a ferry to finish in Sri Lanka.

A South African travel site recommends some of the country’s best bicycling getaways.

 

Competitive Cycling

Tadej Pogačar will wear the rainbow jersey for another year, after winning a repeat victory in the men’s elite Road World Championships with a 41-mile three man breakaway, followed by Remco Evenepoel in second and Ireland’s Ben Healy in third after they caught the other two.

World time trial champ Remco Evenepoel couldn’t hide his anger over a slow bike change due to a broken saddle that killed his shot at winning the road title, too.

Twenty-four-year old Canadian Magdeleine Vallieres won the women’s elite road race in an upset at the Worlds on Saturday, becoming the first of her countrymen to wear the rainbow jersey; New Zealand’s Niamh Fisher-Black was 23 seconds back second, with Spain’s Mavi Garcia third.

UCI retired Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer’s race number 84 for all future junior women’s road races, a year after she died crashing during last year’s Worlds, and no one noticed she failed to finish her race until hours later.

An AP slide show captures the pride and excitement of Rwandan spectators at Africa’s first Road World Championships.

The Israel–Premier Tech cycling team was banned from Italy’s Giro dell’Emilia due to threats of further pro-Palestinian protests, like the ones that disrupted the Vuelta.

 

Finally…

A Kiwi woman scouts locations for the ’28 Olympics, proving once again there’s nothing like a dame. Hanging at the Car Wash when you don’t have a car.

And why settle for riding your bike a mere 15 or 20 mph, when you could top out over 200?

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Ghost bike vandalized after WeHo vote, bicycling man attacked ebiking 14-year old Santa Clarita kid, and bikes beat dementia

September 22, 2025 / / Comments Off on Ghost bike vandalized after WeHo vote, bicycling man attacked ebiking 14-year old Santa Clarita kid, and bikes beat dementia
Day 265 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with some people?

The debate at West Hollywood City Hall that resulted in approval of the Complete Streets makeover of Fountain Ave last Monday was acrimonious.

To say the least.

And in any such debate, some people will inevitably be upset by the result. But why take that anger out on a memorial for a victim of traffic violence?

It was two months ago, nearly to the day, when Blake Ackerman’s ghost bike was installed, as his friends and loved ones, many of whom had flown in for his funeral, carefully attached photos and inscribed messages on the bike.

In the two months since, it has been carefully maintained, as someone — whether family members or friends — kept it clean and replaced the flowers before they could whither.

Then sometime after that contentious vote, some vindictive vandal destroyed all that.

According to the WeHo Times, the heartless destruction occurred sometime overnight, with the vandal ripping up photos and signs, dumping flowers and shattering vases. But at least they left the bike itself alone.

A photo taken the next morning showed shards from broken vase next to the sparse white bike.

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It broke my heart to pass by in the days since, knowing the love and grief that had been poured into it.

So I resolved to buy a bunch of flowers to put on his bike, just to show that someone cared, and that hate and rage can’t be allowed to win.

But before I got there on Sunday, someone had beaten me to it, placing a small bunch of flowers in the basket, and adorning it with artificial white roses.

Maybe others in the community will be inspired to add to it, showing that we care, and sending a message that love is stronger than hate.

We can hope.

Or better yet, we can do it.

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Thanks to Andrew for the heads-up. 

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It takes a major schmuck to assault a 14-year old kid.

And an even bigger one to attack the kid in an apparent case of bike rage, just because he didn’t like the way he got passed on a bike path.

I mean seriously, get over it already.

According to KTLA-5, the boy was riding ebikes with a friend on the San Francisquito Creek Trail in Santa Clarita around dusk last Wednesday, when they were startled to see a man riding his bike without lights just ahead of them.

They swerved around him, with one boy letting out a scream as them continued down the path.

But instead of leaving him behind, the man chased the kids, and knocked the victim off his bike when he caught up to him. Within seconds, the man was on top of him, repeatedly punching the kid with one hand while holding a knife in the other, shouting that he was going to kill him.

The boys then recorded the man stomping of the victim’s ebike, cutting the cables and slashing the tires as they cried out for help.

The attack only ended when a Good Samaritan stopped his car and got out to help, and the attacker slunk away into the night.

The boy, whose name has been withheld, was lucky to escape without serious injuries.

Sheriff’s deputies are looking for a muscular white man with a mustache in his 30s or 40s, who was riding an orange bicycle.

If you think you know this jerk, call the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station at 661/260-4000

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If you want to keep a sharp mind as you age, ride a bike. That’s the conclusion of a new study showing bicycling dramatically reduces your risk of dementia.

According to CNN,

Riding a bike is associated with a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia and a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease, compared with taking nonactive travel modes such as a car, bus or train, found the study that assessed nearly 480,000 participants from Great Britain and published in the journal JAMA Network Open.

Physical activity has long been associated with lower dementia risk in multiple studies, so much so that the 2024 Lancet Commissionidentified it as one of 14 factors responsible for preventing or delaying approximately 45% of dementia cases. More than 55 million people worldwide have dementia, a number expected to nearly triple by 2050.

So get pedaling.

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Local 

A 30-year old man was killed in a collision with an LAPD cop while riding a skateboard in Highland Park Friday night; the victim was riding in the center divider when the officer passed other traffic on the left while responding to a call without lights and siren.

 

State

An enterprising — or maybe desperate — Santa Fe, New Mexico bike rider started a fire to signal police, after he was the victim of a hit-and-run driver fleeing the cops after allegedly choking a family member; police arrested the 24-year old man on DUI and hit-and-run charges, as well as domestic violence and false imprisonment. Yet he was somehow still on the road despite three previous DUI convictions.

Fallen ebike rider and surf legend scion Kolby Aipa was honored with a traditional paddle out in Huntington Beach, as well as induction into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame.

Sad news from Santa Rosa, where an elderly bike rider was killed after stopping on the side Old Redwood Highway north of the city when an SUV driver drifted off the roadway.

 

National

Great idea. A couple of Hawaiian bicycling organizations are teaming with a funder to provide ebikes to victims of the Maui wildfire.

A 19-year old college sophomore from Belen, New Mexico is still missing, 37 years after she disappeared while on her daily 36-mile bike ride — and two years after police said they had made substantial progress in the case.

A four-person team of Wichita, Kansas bicyclists rode across the entire state in 24 hours, from Colorado to Missouri, raising $4,000 for refugees.

An Austin, Texas ebike rider is suing an autonomous vehicle company, alleging one of their delivery robots rolled out in front of him in a bike lane when he had the right-of-way.

It’s happened again. An alleged drunk driver slammed into a 38-year old woman riding an ebike in Gulfport, Florida, then drove eight blocks with her body lodged in his windshield; police arrested a 22-year old man a few miles away.

 

International

London is considering increasing the fines for scofflaw bicyclists who commit “dangerous, antisocial and nuisance cycling behaviors,” like repeatedly running red lights.

Momentum says London deliveries are getting a two-wheeled makeover from a massive cargo bike boom.

The infrastructure minister for my ancestral home says there are no plans “at this time” to require bike riders to wear helmets on the Isle of Man, just months after a failed proposal to ban bikes from a crowded mountain road.

A bicycle website takes the Irish Times newspaper to task for “stoking hostility between road users” as bicycling deaths reached a ten-year high, by publishing a letter reading “Sir, – on a recent visit to Dublin I saw a cyclist stopped at a red light. Is this a record?”

Grenoble, Strasbourg and Rennes have topped the list of bike friendly French cities since 2021, for your next trip to the land of wine and cheese.

 

Competitive Cycling

The Road Cycling World Championships are under way in Rwanda, with Remco Evenepoel winning his third consecutive time trial; Jay Vine finished second and Ilan van Wilder third, while Tadej Pogačar just missed the podium in fourth.

Swiss cyclist Marlen Reusser won the women’s time trial, with Anna van der Breggen second and her Dutch teammate Demi Vollering third.

Everyone competing in this year’s worlds will be required to carry a GPS tracker following the death last year of 18-year-old Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer, who lay unnoticed on the side of the road for an hour-and-a-half after falling in the junior women’s road race.

A Rwandan website says the story of Jean-Marie Vianney Gahemba, father of the country’s most decorated cyclist, shows just how far they have come.

A writer for Bike Radar found the “mismatched, beat-up” bike Tadej Pogačar rode to his first Continental victory, bearing “all the hallmarks of a U23 racer on a budget,” while demonstrating his talent was forged the hard way.

 

Finally…

Who needs pedals for a world biking championship? That feeling when a Nobel Laureate tells you to drink pickle juice to avoid cramps (scroll down), when he could have just recommended rotted herring.

And if you’re riding your bike with nearly 26 grams of coke, 8 grams of meth, and 2 grams of fentanyl stashed in your wallet, hatband and underwear, just obey the damn traffic laws, already.

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L’shana tovah to everyone celebrating tonight. 

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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WeHo councilmembers explain support for Fountain Ave, and Metro approves $85.5 million for LA County bike/ped projects

September 18, 2025 / / Comments Off on WeHo councilmembers explain support for Fountain Ave, and Metro approves $85.5 million for LA County bike/ped projects
Day 261 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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They get it.

Well, some of them, anyway.

As we mentioned on Tuesday, the Complete Streets makeover of Fountain Ave in West Hollywood will go forward, after a seemingly endless multi-year process.

One that saw far too many avoidable deaths and injuries along the way, along with countless dollars in property damage.

Sam Mulick, a reporter for the Beverly Press & Park LaBrea News, reported on Monday’s West Hollywood City Council, where the first phase of the Fountain Ave redesign was approved on a 3-2 vote.

Councilmembers John Heilman and Lauren Meister cast the no votes, while Mayor Chelsea Byers, and Councilmen John Erickson and Danny Hang voted yes.

I’ll let you read Mulick’s story if you want Heilman’s and Meister’s reasoning for opposing the project.

But at least Meister asked the right questions, even if it seemed like she could benefit from sitting down with someone who could correct a few misperceptions on traffic safety.

Heilman, however, seemed to be a lost cause.

But let’s take a moment to examine why the other three supported the project, which could have a dramatic effect on traffic safety, while significantly improving livability on the corridor.

“It’s our responsibility to create options for a diverse community,” (Byers) said. “That is something that’s really important to me especially in this extremely dense area of our community. Kids, especially, have been locked inside of their homes … it is because cars and collisions and the violence they experience interacting with them is the No. 1 contributor to kids’ deaths. And that is a horrific reality that we can transform without having to send families to suburbs.”

Then there were these heartrending comments from Erickson and Hang, both of whom seemed to fully grasp the cost of keeping the street in its current deadly, car-choked form.

“This is my backyard and the sheer fact that I walk by Blake Ackerman’s ghost bike every single day to walk my dog is truly one of the most haunting experiences I have ever had to experience,” (Erickson) said. “This process that we have been going through for five years is killing people. It’s just that simple.”

Councilman Danny Hang said that the redesign will help lower income residents who travel without cars and help the city meet climate goals by reducing emissions. Hang added that the redesign is personal to him because his partner was the victim of a vehicle collision on Fountain Avenue and was hospitalized as a result.

“Fountain Avenue has long been one of the most dangerous corridors in our city,” he said. “Just over a decade we have seen dozens of severe crashes and five lives lost. Those aren’t just numbers. Those are our neighbors and friends and family members and for me, the most important measure of success is simple – fewer people getting hurt and more people getting home safely.”

However, the war isn’t over.

The project will come back before the council again next year, when they will have to approve a construction contract for the first phase. Any change in the makeup of the council could adversely affect that vote.

But for now, at least, we’re finally on our way to a safer Fountain Ave. Even if it comes too late for Ackerman, and too many others.

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Local 

Metro approved $85.5 million in grants for 16 projects throughout Los Angeles County, primarily for first mile/last mile connections and improving mobility for the Olympics; among the projects are new protected bike lanes on Overland Ave in Culver City, and closing another gap in the LA River bike path through the San Fernando Valley.

 

State

Huntington Beach is considering extending restrictions on ebike-riding kids, requiring them to ride on city streets or bike lanes near places like schools and churches. Never mind that bike lanes are, by definition, on streets, or that once again, there appears to be no distinction between ped-assist ebikes and illegal dirt bikes and electric motorcycles.

Carlsbad continued its march to age restrictions for ebike riders, after the Traffic Safety & Mobility Commission voted Tuesday to recommend banning kids under 12 from riding ebikes, although the Coast News calls the restrictions “toothless.”

Cathedral City is installing new painted bike lanes on Whispering Palms Trail as part of the city’s Active Transportation Plan.

Ventura’s city council voted to keep six downtown blocks carfree, like they have been since the early days of the pandemic.

Parents in Menlo Park are complaining that new speed humps installed as part of a Complete Streets project are making it more dangerous for their kids to bike to school, because they extend all the way across the bike lane.

San Francisco voters recalled Supervisor Joel Engardio by a nearly two-thirds margin over his support for turning a two-mile stretch of the Great Highway into a linear park; now recall proponents will try to force its return to a smog- and traffic-choked coastal highway.

 

National

Electrek scrubbed Rivian’s behind-the-scene promo video, and pieced together leaked images of their upcoming ebike that the company had blurred, revealing what appears to be a ped-assist cargo bike.

Seattle opened new protected bike lanes on the least-steep section of the city’s Beacon Hill, creating a 6.5 mile protected corridor across the city. Thanks to fellow corgi dad Mike for the heads-up. 

Good idea. Spokane, Washington’s Bicycling Advisory Board took to their bikes to ride the city’s streets, looking for areas that need improvement. Although with 7,500 miles of streets in Los Angeles, that could take awhile here. 

I want to be like them when I grow up. Sequim, Washington’s Ancient and Honorable Cyclists held their annual meetup; 18 of the group’s 22 octogenarian members turned out, most of whom ride three times or more a week.

Utah just found the skeletal remains of a 47-year old homeless man who disappeared three years ago after setting out for a bike ride.

The editor of a Colorado newspaper says “the world feels like it’s going to h-e-double-toothpicks without the incentive of a handbasket right now,” but at least living in a small town where kids can ride their bikes makes life a little better.

New York is claiming progress on Vision Zero, as the city experienced its lowest level of traffic deaths in five years. Proof that reducing traffic deaths is possible if cities actually take it seriously, unlike a certain SoCal megalopolis I could name. 

 

International

Vancouver, British Columbia is reversing course once again on bike lanes in the city’s 1,000-acre Stanley Park, after the Park Board approved a new mobility plan containing separated bike lanes, just two years after ripping out previously installed bike lanes through the park.

A 62-year old Englishman rode his bike 105 miles from London’s Hyde Park to his home in Wiltshire to raise money for hospice care — despite two previous strokes and having a pacemaker, osteoarthritis and just one kidney.

The UK’s biggest bicycle retailer says things are finally starting to look up, following a modest 1.7% increase in sales this year.

French ultra cyclist Sofiane Sehili is being held in pre-trial detention in Russia until October 4th on unannounced, super-secret charges, after being arrested for an illegal border crossing while attempting to set a record for the fastest crossing of Eurasia by bike.

 

Competitive Cycling

Bicycling Australia examines the process that brought Africa’s first UCI Road World Championships to Rwanda.

Sports Illustrated says the stampede to join the ever-expanding Team Visma-Lease a Bike cycling team continues, as 23-year old Italian “superstar” Davide Piganzoli signed a three-year “mega deal” with the team. Although that seems like a very generous use of the term “superstar” for someone who just graduated from the U23 ranks. 

 

Finally…

Now even the trees are out to get us. Being violent ebike thieves is bad enough, but kitty-napping is just going too damn far.

And if the Jolly Green Giant ever needs a new bike, he’ll now know where to find a few.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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