Tana Ball discusses the LAUSD P.E. bike program she designed and helped fund with a $1.38 million grant. With USC bike planning professor Allison Kendall, and Zachary Canning of Sustainable Streets and the USC Bike Coalition.
John Russo and Karla Mendelson of Keep LA Moving, a group of Westside activists who successfully agitated to get LA’s Playa Del Rey road diet removed, explain their rationale.
Juliana and Nick met Fredrick from Austria at the end of his year long tour around the world in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, and invited him for a coffee and danish at the Phoenix Bakery.
Bike journalist Peter Flax exposed “LA Westside Walkers” in this article on cyclingtips.com. LA Westside Walkers is a Twitter account which purported to be an advocacy group for cyclists and pedestrians run by anonymous LADOT staff. The account was really a “sock puppet” for commercial director Justin Purser, who used it to attack the Playa Del Rey road diet for causing congestion in his upscale beach community.
Flax analyzes driver backlash to both the Venice Blvd “Great Streets” bike lane and the Playa Del Rey road diet, which he calls “the most divisive urban road project of this century in the United States,” here.
Jimmy Lizama started LA’s Bike Kitchen in the Ecovillage’s old kitchen around the turn of the century. Later came Venice’s Bikerowave, Highland Park’s Bike Oven, and the Valley Bikery (the Kitchen still cooks at its new location at Fountain and Virgil in Silverlake). Mr. Lizama has moved on to start his own business recycling bikes and building dynamo hubs for lighting and electric systems on recycled bikes at Relampago Wheelery, across the street from where the Kitchen started. Jimmy provided this interview after installing a dynamo hub for Nick Richert on 12/24/17.
Art Ramirez, custom bike maker/welder, talks about his Burning Man bikes, his Las Vegas competition wins, One Big Club, and his work in schools.
Don Ward, social rider and mobility advocate, talks with Selena Inouye of “Restore Venice Boulevard,” a group dedicated to removing the bike lane and reversing the road diet on Venice Blvd. in Mar Vista.
Don Ward founded the seminal social ride network Midnight Ridazz, which has influenced bike advocacy and culture in Los Angeles. Alexis Edelstein started the Recall Bonin campaign to remove LA City Councilmember Mike Bonin. Edelstein says he started the recall effort to “give a voice” to commuters frustrated by delays in Bonin’s district (commute times on a 1.1 mile stretch of Venice Blvd from Beethoven to Inglewood Blvd have increased up to several minutes due to the “Great Streets” pilot road diet and bike lane). Don and Alexis were both big supporters of Bernie Sanders (“Berniecrats”), and look to find common ground in this debate.
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