April 19, 201111 Comments on Golden Gate Bridge bike speed limit
The Golden Gate Bridge District Operating Committee will meet Thursday morning to consider a proposed 5 MPH and 10 MPH bicycle speed limit on the Golden Gate Bridge sidepaths.
April 19, 2011Leave a Comment
Shasta Living Streets partners with the Whole Earth and Watershed Festival to sponsor Redding, California’s first Open Streets Event this Saturday, April 23, 2011.
April 12, 201111 Comments on Ron Wengler’s $150 bicycle fee
This is making the rounds on various California mailing lists this morning: Ron Wengler of the Northridge West Neighborhood Council wants the city of Los Angeles to “reinstitute bicycle licensing fees” of “at least $150 per year to reflect their shared responsibility for the cost of maintaining the roads and their safe use.”
Update: The proposal was tabled at Tuesday night’s neighborhood committee meeting.
March 29, 2011Leave a Comment
Update on Highway 1 Rocky Creek closure north of Bixby Bridge in Big Sur
January 27, 20111 Comment on Oakland Scraper Bike Portrait Gallery
California photographer Leo Docuyanan took portraits of the men and boys of Oakland’s Scraper Bike team.
View the full gallery of Scraper Bike photos at Leo Docuyanan’s website.Via ARTCRANK.
You can hear Scraper Bike’s latest track “On the Scene” at the Original Scraper Bikes blog. They say there’s a free MP3 download too, but that doesn’t work.
November 11, 20103 Comments on Advice from 911
Last January, computer programmer Ed Magos was riding his bike to work at Los Angeles City Hall when fashion designer Angelina Everett hit him with her Porsche Carrera SUV. Everett stopped, looked at Magos, saw that he was seriously injured, got back in her car and drove away.
An hour and a half later, she finally called 911 and asked the dispatcher, “Am I going to jail?”
The operator’s chilling response: People don’t go to jail for hit-and-runs involving cyclists.