Posts Tagged ‘Biking in LA’

LAPD still hates bikes

Monday, July 26, 2010 22:56 No Comments

What does someone have to do to get handcuffed and detained by the LAPD? Regardless of how you might have answered those questions, the real answers seem to be that the LAPD feels spending a half an hour detaining and handcuffing a cyclist for riding…

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Face Palm: Mayor Pedals Straight From Joy To Pain

Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:22 No Comments

Hot on the back tire of my post Friday gushing with unbridled joy at finding a photo-op of our up-to-now notoriously bike-blind mayor actually riding an actual bicycle, comes news that Villaraigosa apparently liked it so much (and perhaps the positive reaction it engendered) that…

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Dear LA, can we have these bike lanes too??

Saturday, July 17, 2010 5:41 No Comments

I’m visiting New York City this week and stumbled across these new bike lanes that they are beginning to install all over the city. These are amazing and akin to the lanes you see all over much of bike friendly European cities. It’s a subtle…

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Ride, Said The Mayor

Friday, July 16, 2010 16:31 No Comments

Earlier today Mayor Villaraigosa(‘s aide) tweeted about how much he enjoyed last night’s Summer Night Lights event at the Jim Gilliam Recreation Center in Baldwin Hills. In the tweet the mayor(‘s aide) wrote about eating, doing arts and crafts and bicycling with the community. Wait…

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It Caught My Eye: And On This Date, Something Happened

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:18 No Comments

Coming back home from Boyle Heights earlier this week on one of what’s become my now-rare bike rides,  I was rolling under the Beverly Boulevard bridge over 2nd Street/Glendale Boulevard and upon seeing this ominous and intriguing image pasted up on one of the overpass…

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