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Vision Zero Alliance

September 30, 2017

Vision Zero Alliance

Emilia Crotty, Executive Director of Los Angeles Walks, and Nat Gale, Campaign Director for Vision Zero, discuss LA’s Vision Zero Alliance, part of a worldwide movement, started in Sweden, to eliminate all traffic deaths.

LADOT, losangeles, safestreets, visionzero, visionzeroalliance
New Urbanism Film Festival L.A. October 19-22, 2017.

September 23, 2017

New Urbanism Film Festival L.A. October 19-22, 2017.

Paul Steinberg on his film, Bicycle Revolution (Festival Screening time: 2pm Saturday 10/21). Kristin Tiech & Adrienne Johnson on theirs, Women Want Just Want To Be Safe (Festival Screening time: 7:30pm Friday 10/20) and Velo Visionaries (Festival Screening time: also 7:30pm Friday 10/20). Josh Pagett on the origins of the NUFF and what’s happening this time. Matt Hulse on his music video BikeTown YYC (Festival screening times: Friday 7:30pm).

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A Venice Blvd. road diet, under attack, defended for now by democratic rule in the Mar Vista City Council.

September 16, 2017

A Venice Blvd. road diet, under attack, defended for now by democratic rule in the Mar Vista City Council.

Mar Vista City Council Zone 2 Director and Streetsblog LA Editor Damien Newton contextualizes a public Mar Vista City Council meeting. Data hungry measure L, asking for evaluations from bike orgs, an ADA consultant, regular CD1 surveys, and that LAPD, LAFD, City of LA, and LADOT data be shared by certain deadlines, passes. Measure M asks for an immediate reversal of Venice Blvd.’s lane reductions. At-Large Director Rob Kadota uses a rule against resubmitting failed measures to table Measure M at 9:00. MVCC Zone 1 Director Ken Alpern, who along with MVCC member Sherri Akers submitted both measures, responds to this as a personal attack. Claiming a record of promoting bikeways, Alpern warns Kadota to “watch it” at 23:45. He may be threatening a recall of Kadota, as his constituents are threatening to progressive City Council 11 member Mike Bonin over the Venice and Playa Vista road diets. Newton explains the recall effort and how you as a non-councilmember can begin to stand up to Alpern and his anti-road diet constituents’ recall efforts at 37:55.

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An LA Great Street Under Siege

September 9, 2017

An LA Great Street Under Siege

Anna Martin, Mar Vista mother and owner of LA Brakeless, talks about the push to rip out the pilot road improvements and bike lane on Venice Boulevard before data can be collected for the city’s “Great Streets” project. She’s gearing up for the Mar Vista Neighborhood Council vote to continue or stop the pilot on Tuesday, September 12 at 7pm.

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A Really Big Show. Mostly road diets.

August 19, 2017

A Really Big Show. Mostly road diets.

LADOT Campaign Director for Vision Zero Nat Gale talks with Severin Martinez and Dennis Hindman about the challenge of designing safer streets in accordance with the LA’s Vision Zero policy. The Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council hears some impassioned public comment over Council District 1 Councilmember Cedillo’s blocking of street improvements. Dave Snyder, Executive Director of Calbike, on the California Bicycle Summit. Dennis Hindman on NYC’s DOT report, “Cycling in the City.” Severin Martinez shares findings on road diets in LA from his UCLA Capstone Project in Transportation Policy and Planning, “Who Wins When Streets Lose Lanes, An Analysis of Safety on Road Diet Corridors in Los Angeles” (everybody wins).

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Tafarai on Ciclavia; LACBC’s Hyeran Lee Leaves LA for East Bay.

August 13, 2017

Tafarai on Ciclavia; LACBC’s Hyeran Lee Leaves LA for East Bay.

Tafarai Bayne, Ciclavia’s Chief Strategist, tells Dennis Hindman and Nick Richert about the ins and outs of LA’s Ciclavia. Hyeran Lee gives us her last interview as Development Coordinator of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition before leaving LA to work for Bike East Bay.

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bicycle, ciclavia, hyeranlee, lacbc, losangeles, sanpedro, tafaraibayne, wilmington
Ovas' Black Mass Ride; Fletcher Road Diet

July 29, 2017

Ovas’ Black Mass Ride; Fletcher Road Diet

Xela the X and Soyla of the Ovas (formerly Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade) tell us about the Black Mass (formerly “Clitoral Mass”) ride on 8/5/17. The Ovas are changing; whereas only women of color were historically invited on their famous rides, now everyone is welcome—except “gentrifiers.” Nathan Lucero, founder of the Transportation Committee of the East Area Progressive Democrats, talks about the road diet on Fletcher that LADOT and Vision Zero are trying to introduce amidst driver bikelash. Xela, Soyla, and Nathan talk about concerns that bike lanes, while creating safer streets, bring gentrification.

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Nathan Lucero’s Twitter: On My Bike In LA

Ovas

Black Mass Ride 2017

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blackmass, clitoralmass, eapd, fletcher, LADOT, nathanlucero, ovarianpsycos, roaddiet, visionzero
A Bike Friendly Workplace

July 8, 2017

A Bike Friendly Workplace

Emily Hooper, Jim Lemmon, Christopher Flynn, and Hana Moore of DLR Group Architects in Los Angeles talk about their bike friendly office and sustainability and environmentalism in general.

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on Soundcloud after 118 days

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Beverly Hills Bike Breakthrough

July 1, 2017

Beverly Hills Bike Breakthrough

After years of obstruction, Beverly Hills council members unanimously agreed to include bicycle lanes on the Beverly Hills segment of Santa Monica Boulevard. This is due to the tireless efforts of bike advocates like Mark Elliot and Kory Klem, who discuss the victory in this episode.

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betterbikebeverlyhills, beverlyhills, bikelane
Great Street:Venice Blvd

June 19, 2017

Great Street:Venice Blvd

Jim Shanman of Walk ‘n Rollers and Tia Tengue, who started a petition to support the Venice Blvd. Great Street improvements, talk about the pilot Great Street in Mar Vista and the vitriolic debates it has caused. With Deborah Murphy, founder of LA Walks, Tim Fremaux, LA Dept. of Transportation engineer, and Dennis Hindman.

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http://lagreatstreets.org/venice/

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