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Unbelievable. Louisiana town bans walking and bicycling from 11 pm to 4 am. Because evidently, people who don't drive have nowhere to go at night.
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I can see why so many people say Los Angeles will never become a bicycling city. I mean, who'd want to ride on a day like this, with its perfect sunny, 70° weather when you could be stuck in traffic in your hermetically sealed SUV? Just awful!
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Hollywood producer Bob George killed by dooring in on Fountain Ave in East Hollywood/Silver Lake Tuesday; 10th SoCal bicycling death in 13 days:
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OMG. You can slam a truck into a group of people riding bicycles, killing two and injuring 19 others, and walk without any fucking charges.
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This is who we share the road with.
I have something to admit.
Cyclists make me irrationally angry. Why do they bike on the street during rush hour traffic. I hate you. So much.
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I ride my bike for recreation.
I ride my for transportation.
I ride my bike for fitness.
I ride my bike to improve my health.
I ride my bike to maintain my sanity.
I ride my bike for fun.
I ride my bike so you have less traffic and cleaner air.
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.
@MayorOfLA
just announced that beg buttons are being disconnected in pedestrianized areas to provide automatic walk buttons.
About damn time. Now let's make it permanent, and everywhere.
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With LA gas prices over $5 a gallon — and approaching $7 in some places — thank God the city is building out the bike and mobility plans it passed a decade ago to give Angelenos safe, efficient alternatives to driving.
Wait. What do you mean they aren't?
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Why are cars that can travel over 100 mph even legal on public streets?
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Always gets me when people say this road or that one is too dangerous for someone on a bicycle, and their solution is to ban bikes instead of making it safe for everyone.
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If you find yourself alone on Christmas Day, get on your bike and ride. It's a magical day for a bike ride. No traffic, the streets are festive, and almost everyone you see is full of good cheer — even drivers. You'll be amazed what it does for your mood.
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My God. Just saw a text from the
@latimes
saying the a-hole who killed four Pepperdine sorority sisters on PCH was driving 104 mph at the time of the crash. That killer highway needs to be redesigned now so speeds like that are no longer possible.
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When I am killed riding my bike — because these days, it feels more like when than if — I want you to use my death to fight like hell for change on the streets, and in city hall.
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Damn. This is what a hero looks like. A 94-year old man rides his bike 45 miles a day delivering food for Meals on Wheels. Even during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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This could be Los Angeles. But isn't.
Today, whilst cycling 17mi across London, I witnessed the most number of people I've seen cycling in this great city in 14 years. It was absolutely phenomenal and breathtaking. Bike boxes were overspilling at every junction and the spectrum of diversity was huge. What a delight.
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Got this photo this morning from Josh Hamilton. What you're looking at are foreign tourists in a rental car driving on the Ballona Creek bike path in Culver City, after mistakenly setting their Google map directions to bicycle instead of car. Nothing at entrance to stop them.
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The Miami driver who killed a couple riding in a green bike lane was "fatigued". So it's okay then, right?
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New York driver has 168 traffic violations, and blames failed brakes for "freak accident" that killed a woman just four steps from her home. Yet somehow, bystanders blame a new protected bike lane.
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Let's be clear. No one wants to make you ride a bike if you don't want to. We just want to make it safe and convenient for other people to decide to ride. You're more than welcome to sit in ever increasing traffic as the streets slowly grind into gridlock.
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Had a long talk with my doc today about the mental and emotional toll it takes on me to write about all the fallen bicyclists lately. And we concluded that I'd be a lot better off if y'all would just stop killing people with your cars. So please, and thank you.
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Koretz veto of a very popular project illustrates exactly what’s wrong with LA government, where every councilmember has near dictatorial power over what gets built in his or her district, leading to one man rule.
.
@PaulKoretzCD5
is killing Uplift Melrose. Despite a majority of residents, businesses, both schools, religious institutions & both NCs supporting. If that’s not enough to get a transformation project done in LA w/free $50M from CA, nothing is. It’s why we can’t have nice things.
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This is huge. DC will allow parking cops to issue tickets based on photos, including blocked bike lanes. We need to see that everywhere.
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So where are the rebates to buy ebikes to get some of those cars off the road, or buy TAP cards? $1,500 for those could make a huge difference on our streets.
Electric cars are still cars; ebikes and transit are game changers. Stop thinking small.
#GreenNewDealLA
is about making sure every Angeleno has the opportunity to benefit from a more sustainable future.
We're increasing
@LADWP
rebates for used electric vehicle purchases to $1500 — and adding a new rebate for EV charger installation.
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The cool thing about the British tabloids is they criticize anyone who rides a bike without a helmet, and ridicule anyone who does.
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This got to be one of the worst lines ever:
"The vehicles involved remained on scene and are reportedly cooperating with investigators."
No, the cars had drivers. And the drivers stayed, not the cars.
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Shit. That’s 11 people killed riding bikes in SoCal in 18 days. And one murder.
Man riding bicycle hit, dragged to death in South L.A. hit-and-run. Live updates:
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I'm effing livid. Four years after
@MayorOfLA
cut the legs out from under
@MikeBoninLA
and removed the desperately needed road diet on Vista Del Mar, a mother has been murdered by a hit-and-run driver while holding her 3-year old child.
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I am really, really, really, really, really, really tired of writing about people killed riding their bikes.
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Let's be clear about one thing.
#MeasureHLA
was only necessary — and is passing — because we couldn't count on the LA City Council to keep their promises. Now they'll have no choice.
Thanks to
@schneider
and everyone at
@streetsforall
for driving the bus on
@healthystreetla
. This measure will save lives.
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Walking the Corgi tonight, I was appalled to find a Bird scooter carelessly left blocking the sidewalk. So i picked it up, moved it out of the way, and got on with my life.
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Here's a thought. Instead of banning or limiting bikeshare and shared e-scooters, why not turn one parking pace on every block into a bike and scooter parking corral? And replace one parked car with several alternatives to driving.
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NIMBYs and angry drivers insist there's no need to build bikeways for "the 1%" who commute by bike, not seeming to grasp that's why the numbers are so low. You don't build them for people like Peter who will ride anyway; you build them for all the people who won't.
LA has been rated the worst city in the country for bicyclists.
I'll keep on biking. But c'mon LA, get your biking shit together.
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Typical Los Angeles. After listening to all those city council members talking with their hair on fire about how dangerous LA streets are, and how little the city has done, and how they need to be forced to keep their commitments, they vote unanimously not to.
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Just a reminder that no one has ever been found stuffed in the back of an abandoned bicycle.
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Or, hear me out here, maybe we just need to ban cars after dark. Where do they need to go at that hour, anyway?
More proof we need real bike lanes and bike paths in
#LosAngeles
. Tonight’s
@LACriticalMass
was one of the biggest we have seen. 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
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There’s a new player in the Westside’s dockless e-scooter game. And this time you can take a seat.
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Funny how so many non-bike riders say if forcing people to wear bike helmets says just one life, it's worth it. But just try making the same argument about road diets or Complete Streets.
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In the ten years since Vision Zero has been discussed in California, neither the state nor Los Angeles has taken the most basic step of telling drivers they don't own the streets.
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Every day I see drivers with their hermetically sealed SUVs and state-of-the-art sound systems pull out in front of emergency vehicles with their sirens blaring, because they apparently can’t hear them. But sure, let’s talk about cyclists with headphones.
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Breaks my heart knowing this didn't have to happen. Various groups have worked to improve safety on PCH for more than a decade. If anyone had listened to us, these young women might still be here.
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This is what's possible if we take more cars off the roads during normal times.
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We're not leading the fight when Los Angeles remains addicted to motor vehicles, and the mayor hasn't taken an interest in fixing it.
Los Angeles will continue to lead in the fight against climate change.
We owe it to our future generations.
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Proposed: Remove a pair of traffic lanes on every major street in Los Angeles, and bring back fully networked trolley service.
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I have an unusual form of diabetic neuropathy that causes my leg muscles to atrophy. Riding a bicycle even once a week is enough to keep them from deteriorating. My bike is my transportation and my physical therapy.
"When we see people on bikes, we assume they are physically fit and capable, and not that the bike is their mobility device."
Our friend
@Spokesmama
discusses pain management and pedalling through arthritis in the latest instalment of
#WomenInUrbanism
:
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Really sad to see how nasty Culver City residents have been over the removal of MOVE Culver City. I have long seen the city as friendly and welcoming, but have completely changed that perception over the past week.
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The past few years, I've struggled with feelings of failure, knowing what Los Angeles could be, and just how little success I've had changing it. But I know now that my success in this life is not the change I've achieved, but the spark I've helped spread to so many others.
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Funny how so many people seem to think bike helmets are magic devices that make their wearers impervious to injury from two-ton vehicles frequently exceeding the speed limit.
If you actually give a damn about bike safety, fight for protected bike lanes and safer streets.
Why do so many bicyclists - kids, teens and adults - ride without helmets? It’s infuriatingly stupid. So I summoned my future self, Old Man Huppke, to give people the what for:
“WHAT ON EARTH IS WRONG WITH YOU HELMET-LESS NUMPTIES?!?”
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Love this one. In an inspired protest, German rabbis and imams rode tandem bikes through the streets of Berlin to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia.
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We could easily do this in Los Angeles, if our leaders would do more than give lip service to livability.
I am pretty excited to share what’s happening in Barcelona because it is fucking amazing. (this is not a.i.)
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Shit. One of the six bike riders run down near Houston over the weekend has died. And his fucking killer walked without charges or even a damn traffic ticket, proving once again just how little our lives are worth.
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I've learned a lot from bicycling. But perhaps the most important lesson is when you're broken and and too tired to ride, and still far from home, you have to turn the pedal one more time. Then do it again. And just keep turning it one more time until you get where you're going.
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Just saw a live shot on CNN showing a blocked and broken road in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael — and someone on a bike riding around all the damage where a car couldn't go. Bicycles are emergency vehicles.
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Powerful protest from a Tulsa OK man, who walked the entire route of a bike lane carrying his bicycle, after the city ripped it out in response to complaints.
Imagine if we did that here, carrying our bikes to protest the lanes that haven't been built.
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I could just cry. This morning I posted a photo showing the aftermath of a bicycling crash in Marina del Rey. I just learned from a comment to my story that the victim didn't make it. Just so fucking wrong.
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Between ebikes, dockless bikeshare and e-scooters, hoverboards and whatever comes next, we're in the midst of a revolution in personal mobility rivaling the birth of the automobile. So when will our elected leaders finally learn to accommodate rather than just regulate?
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I understand why people say it, but if I ever get killed while riding my bike, don't you dare say I did doing what I love. No one loves writhing in pain on the side of the road after getting run down by a reckless driver.
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Most overlooked fact about improving streets for bike riders and pedestrians is that it literally benefits everyone. Crash rates and injuries decline, communities become more livable, retail sales go up, business vacancies drop, the tax base improves and property values rise.
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Los Angeles will never be one of the world's great cities until we de-emphasize cars, and start orienting the city around people, transit, walking and biking.
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These illustrations from British artist George Townley are an absolutely gorgeous love letter to Los Angeles. h/t
#CaliforniaSun
, aka
@mmcphate
.
#mydayinLA
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WTF is wrong with some people? Saying "I want to run over cyclists" is no different than saying "I want to shoot random people." The only distinction is the choice of weapon and intended target.
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Raise your hand if you're not surprised. 🙋
STUDY: Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles; 4x more likely to cut off other drivers.
Call it the "Audi Effect."
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I could just cry. Man killed in Utah collision was on a 4,000 mile bike ride to awareness about the food crisis on the Navajo Nation.
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Horrible. A man leaned out of a moving car to push a woman off her bike, then fell out of the car window himself. The woman was killed when she hit her head on the asphalt, while the man who killed her skidded 150 feet to his own death.
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Let's not forget that P-22 is dead because he, too, was struck by a driver.
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I'm pissed off! I just created a new
@Change
petition demanding Mayor Bass meet with us to listen to the dangers we face on the streets, and call for an end to the traffic violence killing Angelenos. So who's with me?
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No, he was killed by a driver operating a motor vehicle.
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Here's the mist important part:
"LeBron James often credits his bicycle as a huge factor in his childhood that gave him an escape from dangerous parts of his neighborhood and the freedom to explore — every student will receive a bicycle when they arrive."
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Funny how only people who don't ride bikes thinks there's a powerful bicycle lobby. And people who ride bikes think we can't get anyone to listen to us.
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I never used to see a use for ebikes, but now I see them as a great equalizer, allowing anyone to ride a bike when they don't have the physical ability to ride a one.
Car-dependent suburbs are ripe for high-quality bicycle paths. As suburbs get denser and e-bikes become more popular, "bicycle highways" that allow for efficient and comfortable cycling over longer distances can help reconnect the suburbs to urban cores.
#bicyclehighway
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Gotta admit, it's pretty remarkable to see firefighters, of all people, arguing for keeping our streets deadly. What's next, ER docs telling people not to wear bike helmets?
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Feel very lucky to be alive tonight, after my wife's car came feet from being hit head-on by someone driving salmon on the wrong side of the divided roadway on Cahuenga near the Hollywood Bowl this afternoon. But sure, tell me about that guy on an ebike who ran a stop sign.
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Not sure how I feel about this one. The LA city council votes to approve permanent memorials for fallen bicyclists. But I'd rather have them take Vision Zero seriously so we don't need any more fucking memorials.
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Seriously folks, it isn't that hard. Ride vehicularly if you prefer to mix it up with cars, and build bike lanes and pathways for the overwhelming majority who don't, and never will.
No one is obligated to ride any particular way, and shouldn't be expected to.
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Any transportation system that accepts death as a normal cost of getting from here to there is an abject failure.
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We need to call out the anti-road diet, anti-Vision Zero crowd for their demonization of bike advocates as "bicycling zealots." We're their neighbors, co-workers and fellow citizens, who just want a safer, healthier streets for everyone.
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I am also very aware of the pain I'm bringing to others, and I apologize. It's important that we know what's happening on our streets, but every time I write about something like this, I know the pain it will cause, and I'm sorry. I'm not sure I would even follow me right now.
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Oh no. I read last night about a woman killed by a DUI driver in a Denver suburb. Today I learned the victim was Gwen Inglis, the reining master's national road race champ for her age group. We've got to stop the carnage of traffic violence.
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I can't even. It's already the worst year in memory for SoCal bicyclists, with 20 deaths in just the first two months. And now we can now make that 22. Stories later tonight, if I can pull myself together.
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I repeat: Anyone who flees the scene after a crash should be charged with murder/attempted murder for making a conscious decision to let their victim die rather than stop and get help. And I don't give a fuck who's at fault for the crash.
Santa Ana: Man in wheelchair hospitalized in 'extremely critical condition' after hit-and-run
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Gene Hackman is one of us.
I was Googling Gene Hackman to see what he is up to and last year he bought an e-bike in his hometown of Santa Fe and he looks great at then 88. Thought y’all would want to know.
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Let's be honest. All the high-end bikes, gadgets, kits, apps and all the other "must haves" are great.
But all you really need to ride a bike is a bike. Any bike.
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Wichita shamed into installing post-protected bike lane by guerrilla installation of DIY toilet plunger barrier.
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The death of Australian bicyclist James Rapley on LA's Temescal Canyon Road inspired a new camera system to capture distracted drivers in New South Wales, developed by his friend to keep anyone else from dying needlessly.
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This hits like a gut punch every time I see it.
"We needed those voices. We need to make change happen for real." -- Damian Kevitt
#FixPCH
#SlowDown
@CaltransDist7
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They get it. Why can't other police departments figure this out?
We've sent an unmarked police bike out on the streets of the West Midlands to look out for drivers putting lives at risk. This is what we caught on camera. Get the full story ➡
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Please excuse one non-bike tweet. This is the best morning I've had in months, because my wife isn't home. She's back at work for the first time in two months, and healthier than she's been in years following her surgery. I can't think of a better way to start the new year.
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I'm so damn tired of writing about people snuffed out by killer drivers, just because they were riding a bicycle. Sometimes I hope we're making progress. Sometimes I despair we never will.
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Major breakthrough over the weekend. For the 1st time, my wife was open to the idea of getting rid of my car, particularly since I haven't driven since January and the world didn't end. She thinks I should set the money aside for Uber; I think I should invest in an e-cargo bike.
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Hey LA drivers — here's the way to reduce traffic congestion. Talk someone else into using transit, walking or riding a bike.
That's the secret. You don't have to do it yourself, just get other people to do it. Then you'll have lots of wide open roads to zoom! zoom! on.
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Okay, he's got my vote.
Joe Biden spent Saturday like most of us did. Riding a bike
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I'm not planning to change my screen name for Halloween. I mean, isn't biking in LA scary enough?
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Proposed: We give every LA bike rider a parking ticket book, and let us do it. We'll make the city millions.
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If we could do this in Los Angeles, we might see some change here. And maybe save a few lives.
On June 4, 1977, approximately 9,000 demonstrators occupied the Museumplein in Amsterdam to commemorate the road deaths of 1976. Afterwards, they rode en masse to the Vondelpark, ignoring the taunts and jeers of motorists.
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For God's sake just stop already. Yet another bike rider murdered by a hit-and-run driver — this time just blocks from my home.
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