What is the Bike Blog?
LADOT supports bicycling as a legitimate form of transportation, an effective source of exercise, and a great way to have fun. Beyond personal benefits, bicycling helps to improve air quality, ease congestion on the roadways, and can help make communities healthier.
The purpose of LADOT Bike Blog, which started in March 2010, is to give you, the reader, a closer look into the operations, motivations, rationale, and people of the LADOT Bike Program. We also hope to open and maintain dialogue with the bicycle community over how to make LA a great place to ride a bike. The Bike Program is committed to funding and building bicycle infrastructure on Los Angeles’ roadways, offering safe bicycling information, providing maps of bicycle facilities, installing convenient bicycle parking throughout the City, and generally encouraging the growth of the bicycling community.
Los Angeles is a great place to bike. It has a rich and vibrant bicycle culture, both outside and online. We hope to add to that.
Who is the Bike Blog?
Many of the Bike Program’s dedicated professionals and interns
LADOT Bike Blog is run by Nate Baird, the Bicycle Coordinator for the LADOT Bike Program. Nate holds a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and has worked at LADOT for over 18 months.
Watch for posts from a number of different contributors on the LADOT Bike Blog:
- Nate Baird, Bicycle Coordinator, Bike Blog editor
- Kathleen King, Student Intern
- Jordan Miles, Student Intern
- Eve Sanford, Student Intern
- David Somers, Department of City Planning Bicycle Planner
Thanks also go to our former contributors:
- Emily Dwyer, former Assistant Coordinator
- Christopher Kidd, former Assistant Coordinator; Bike Blog’s creator
- Derek Levoit, former Student Intern
- Severin Martinez, former Student Intern
- JoJo Pewsawang; former Assistant Coordinator and Head Writer
- Alex Vickers, former Student Intern
We Want to Hear From You!
You can contact us at: ladotbikeblog@gmail.com
Comments
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Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official views, policies, and directives of LADOT or the LADOT Bike Program.
Chris,
I have left a question for the mayor’s bike summit concerning adequate bikeways staffing for the proposed 40 miles per year in the 2010 bike plan. I would suggest that people at LADOT bikeways review this and perhaps vote for it to be addressed at the meeting by the mayor. You do not have to put your real name for voting.,
I wanted to contact you about content for your blog. I work with a television station in Colorado. We’ve produced these cycling films that we’ve cut up into short web segments. I wanted to share them with you and see if you were interested in posting them on your blog. They are extremely cool victorian cycle fims.
here is a link to an album: http://vimeo.com/album/171723/format:thumbnail
Let me know what you think,
Andrea
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Hi, nice to meet you !
Hi,
I wondered if you know the legality of riding a bike on the beach, on the water line. Is it legal in LA?
Thanks
In my never-ending quest to ride recreational and commuter trails in every state, I recently had the opportunity to ride the Santa Ana River Trail and the Huntington Beach Bike Trail.
They were fantastic and I enjoyed riding them as well as creating trail guides for them on my own trailsnet website and as “trailking” on the http://www.everytrail.com website.
You have a couple gems there. I hope you keep adding trails to your system.
Re the expo bike lanes : http://la.streetsblog.org/2011/10/17/thoughts-while-riding-the-expo-bike-lane/
while streetsblog is definitely not overstating the condition of the west bound bike lanes, I think a bigger concern from this article deals with the local residents that are “readying a campaign to reverse the lanes” .
What can we, local residents/bicycle advocates, do to prevent the removal of our limited bike infrastructure? Even the ones that are dilapidated
Hey Charles. Please be sure to contact your Council Member to let them know that these lanes are important to you. Here is a link with Council Member contact info: http://www.lacity.org/YourGovernment/CityCouncil/index.htm
Does LADOT have a map of all the speed limits in the city, similar to this one from Santa Monica?
http://gismap.santa-monica.org/GISMaps/pdf/speedlimit.pdf
If not, is there database that could be turned into a map?
Thanks for this blog.
Hi BC,
Sorry for the late reply. I’ll look into the matter at the office tomorrow.
Hi JoJo,
any word on the speed limit map?
Hey BC,
Sorry for the delayed response. At this time DOT does not have a city-wide speed limit map similar to the one in Santa Monica.
How can we invite riders to join us for Sat. Sept. 8, 10 a.m. East LA Bike Ride? Off the Gold Line Station at East LA Civic Center – Thanks. http://lacountyparks.org/