For those interested, here’s a pretty good summary of what’s going on with Metro’s bicycle program. The report was prepared by Metro staff for the Metro Board of Directors. It’s basically an update that staff writes up periodically. So what is going on? As the report details, there are efforts [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Could it be built today? (NPR) The 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway was built during the Great Depression — and even then was [continue reading]
I hope everyone who had a chance to attend CicLAvia had a good time Sunday — and I really hope this is not a one-off deal. I hopped on a Gold Line train in Pasadena at 10:20 and the train was absolutely stuffed with bicycles and people. Don’t see that [continue reading]
In case you have somehow missed the news, 7.5 miles of streets in Los Angeles will be closed today for the benefit of cyclists and pedestrians. The event is called CicLAvia and it starts at 10 a.m. The above map shows the street closures. As part of the event, there [continue reading]
CicLAvia, L.A.’s very own effort to open city streets to bicyclists, pedestrians, joggers, skateboarders and others for a fun-filled day of recreation and social integration, is coming this Sunday, Oct. 10. If you’re planning on attending this premier event, don’t even think about driving because of street closures. Use Metro [continue reading]
I noticed that our friends at the Buzzer Blog in Vancouver ran a poll recently asking how many readers had actually loaded their bike onto a bus’ bike rack. The answer: about 60 percent of readers. Obviously it’s an unscientific poll targeted at cyclists in a very bike-friendly city. But [continue reading]
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]
