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 LADOT Bike Blog was launched in March 2010 by Senior Bicycle Coordinator Michelle Mowery and Chris Kidd, as an outreach tool to provide Angelenos, a closer look into the operations, motivations, rationale, and people of the LADOT Bike Program. The blog aims to open and maintain dialogue with the Los Angeles community about how to make LA a great place to ride a bike.
The Bike Program is committed to funding and building bicycle infrastructure on the City’s roadways, offering safe bicycling information, providing maps of bicycle facilities, installing convenient bicycle parking throughout the City, and generally encouraging the growth of the bicycle modal share as a means to manage transportation demand for an ever-expanding population. 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?
The LADOT Bike Blog is maintained and published by Bicycle Outreach and Planning, a group within the Active Transportation Division of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. The blog is currently edited by Bike Program Staff and publishes articles written by current LADOT staff, Department of City Planning staff, student professional workers, and volunteer interns.
Over the years we have had many different contributors on the LADOT Bike Blog, but the blog currently publishes under one identity, the LADOT Bike Blog. Current and past contributors include Rubina Ghazarian, Elizabeth Gallardo, Jose Tchopourian, Severin Martinez, Heather Do, David Somers, Rachel Junken, Nate Baird, Eli Glazier, Casey Osborn, Daniel Shockley, Dustin Forester, Kathleen King, Eve Sanford, Emily Dwyer, Christopher Kidd, JoJo Pewsawang, Jordan Miles, Derek Levoit, and Alex Vickers.
We Want to Hear From You!
You can contact us at: bike.program@lacity.org
Comments
Please help us by leaving your thoughts and ideas, ensuring that building a bicycle-friendly LA is a collaborative process. That said, please be respectful of all opinions and be mindful that comments that disparage, bash or are unnecessary to the topic being discussed will not be approved. Please keep all comments free of foul language and obscenities.
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,
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/
That one needs to travel around the red and blue lines to get to the green line that doesn’t even get close further illustrates the need for a mag-lev train down the 405 with a re routed green line wth a Rams Stadium stop that connects at the 405 station that goes all the way to LAX. Addresses the stadium commuter and airport commuter issues all in one.