LA Bike Festival 2016

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Better late than never, this LA Bike Festival sound features vendors with Wheelhouse, Crafty Pedal, Pure Fix, Bikie Girl Bloomers, and Farm Fresh to you, plus Biketivist Damian Kevitt, Streetsblog Editor Damien Newton, East Side Riders founder and City Council District 15 Watts Field Deputy John Jones III, volunteer Sanjay Gupta and LA Bike Trains founder/ Bike Festival organizer Nona Varnado.

L.A. Halloween Critical Mass

This month’s Critical Mass ride celebrates Halloween as well as bikes, people, music, and Los Angeles. Featuring: Adriana, LA Metro Planner Avital, her father Jacob, Ride Marshal Napoleon, Dominic, and another Ride Marshal, Mark.

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Connecting via traffic injury support, clubs, advocacy

An LA2050 Grants Challenge bid by Streets Are For Everyone, and bike clubs at schools–with Damian Kevitt, Ariel Climer. A bike conference at Pure Cycle with founders Jordan Shaw and Michael Fishman.

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http://www.streetsare4everyone.org/

https://www.purecycles.com/

LA DOT POD Ghost Bikes

Ghost bike placing & vigil for hit-and-run victim Alan Deane, produced by LADOT Artist-In-Residence Alan Nakagawa. Also, Damien Newton interviews Wes Reutimann, the executive director of Bike SGV, on the postponed 626 Open Streets event date (March 5), among other things..

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New Urbanism Film Festival, Los Angeles 2016

Filmmakers, doc subjects, a film, and Josh Paget, the Festival’s Director.

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https://newurbanismfilmfestival.com/

Arcadia Shuttle to San Gabriel Mountains Nat’l Monument

There’s a pilot shuttle from the Arcadia Metro Goldline station to Chantry Flat this weekend and next. It’s part of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument Management Plan (page 9: “How might the Forest Service provide public access to the Monument for all who wish to enjoy it…”)

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The Source/Metro

Great Streets Challenge

An opportunity for community, business, and other organizations to improve their streets–explained by Claire Bowin, LA Senior City Planner, to Jennifer Gill and Nick Richert.

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Canvassing for Josef Bray-Ali, Bike Mechanic/Bikeshop Owner/Bike Activist, CD1

A morning of canvassing for Josef Bray-Ali, candidate for LA Council District 1, in Cypress Park. This is completely unedited. If you have editing skills, feel free to make your own edit by downloading here. 
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Streets Are For Everyone

Founder Damien Kevitt on his new organization, S.A.F.E., and how it evolved from Finish the Ride, a movement to make change from the hit and run he suffered several years ago. With Dana Galbraith and JJ Hoffman. 

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Alan Nakagawa and Vision Zero

LADOT has taken an artistic approach to Vision Zero by hiring artist Alan Nakagawa. Interviewed by LACBC Education Director Colin Bogart at LACBC headquarters. 

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