Illuminating a stellar effort in unraveling the region’s huge traffic knot, the Corporate Blue Diamond Award for 2010 was awarded Wednesday to the California Institute of Technology, the renowned research university in Pasadena. With a robust bike-to-work and to-school program that currently attracts some 600 participants, Caltech offers a wide [continue reading]
photo by Greg Raisman, via Flickr Nope, that’s not our Hollywood. That’s the Hollywood part of Portland, Oregon, the city with some serious cycling credentials. The cyclist is in a “bike box,” which the city has installed in several locations to try to eliminate collisions between cyclists and vehicles that [continue reading]
It’s been a while (June 2009 in fact) since Metro broke ground on the Metro Orange Line Extension, the first official major project to leave the starting gate following voter-approval of Measure R in 2008. It’s now time to provide a progress report on construction, and from all indications, construction [continue reading]
Bicycle commuters looking for more security when parking their bikes in the underground parking structure of Union Station’s East portal will be glad to hear that this week Metro installed a security camera to deter bike theft. The live feed is monitored by Metro Transit Security, and the surveillance video [continue reading]
An interesting nugget from Metro CEO Art Leahy’s daily email to staff: Caltrans notified the Southern California Association of Government (SCAG) and us that we received a $150,000 Partnership Planning Grant to develop a Bicycle Data Clearinghouse for measuring and reporting existing bicycle usage in Los Angeles County. Collecting all [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”362″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZEgJdrUdyg[/youtube] The above video presents a short summary of some of the highlights of last Wednesday’s Bicycle Roundtable. Cyclists, advocates and other stakeholders gathered at Metro headquarters for the third Bicycle Roundtable to discuss various ways to make Metro more bike friendly. Here are a few notes from [continue reading]
L.A. City Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa just wrapped up his “Bike Summit” at Metro, and while not officially describing himself as a cyclist, promised to champion cyclist issues, including raising safety awareness for cyclists on streets and improving bicycle infrastructure. This pledge was made following his own accident where the mayor [continue reading]
Yesterday I mentioned I’d try to stream today’s Metro Bicycle Roundtable on Ustream – emphasis on try – unfortunately tech issues have come up and it’s not going to be possible today. I will be there videotaping the event though, so later this week we’ll have a video wrap-up for [continue reading]
3rd Metro Bicycle Roundtable [add to Google Calendar] The meeting will focus on the discussions that have taken place at each of the subcommittee meetings – Policy and Planning, Implementation and Operations – held over the last two months. Website: http://www.metro.net/bikes When: 12pm-2pm Where: Metro Headquarters, One Gateway Plaza, Windsor [continue reading]
L.A. City Mayor and Metro Board Member Antonio Villaraigosa plans to hold a Bike Summit on Aug. 16 at Metro to talk about how to make L.A. a safer, more bike-friendly city. That comes as good news to local cyclists, who usually have much to say about improving conditions for [continue reading]
