LA Bike Master Plan Public Meetings
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WARCHILD at 02.12.08 - 11:03 am
LA Bike Master Plan Public Meetings
Hey-O, Gabe from Portland here. I work for a Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning agency (Alta Planning and Design) here in Portland and we are developing a Los Angeles Bicycle Master Plan. Annnnnd, we want your input! There are 4 public meetings around the LA area over the next month. They will all be the same content, just in different areas to get input from the entire LA area.
The first one is this Saturday (during which I will be bashing the fuck out of other bikers in the BEN HURT II Chariot Wars) (which you are all too pansy to come to, but that is a different story)
Please pass the word around and help make your city not suck!
www.labikeplan.org
Saturday February 16, 2008
Expo Center Swim Stadium
Community Room
3980 S. Menlo Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90037
10am-12pm
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O HAI THERE. It seems you guyzz are teh haerzz. It is mai falt. I tryz n but still FAIL.
WARCHILD02.12.08 - 11:12 am
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dude! thanks for the convenience. that's where i swim. i'll be there.
meandmybluebike02.13.08 - 1:53 pm
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got too excited and didn't see the date. i won't make it. apologies.
meandmybluebike02.13.08 - 1:54 pm
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warchild,
Good to know you're working to help save LA...
Maybe if Portland wasn't too pansy to come down here we'd grace you with our presence again...
e-rock02.13.08 - 2:24 pm
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Gabe,
By "presence", I think Eric means we will bring our carnage.
Joe Borfo02.13.08 - 2:33 pm
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Hey - go to the other thread, where the info is readily and immediately linked to!
Also, MOVIE AT BIKEROWAVE after the Feb 20th meeting. Goonies or whatever wins the vote!
Alex Thompson02.13.08 - 2:44 pm
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hye MuFfferzz eye behlevez teh haerezz iz up norrzzthy in teh Pdox...Haerzz
Funder Cat02.13.08 - 2:46 pm
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Whoa, Warchild is in charge of our future.
PC02.13.08 - 11:22 pm
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Warchild,
Towards reducing the likelihood of future car-hits-bike hits, shall we use the Bikely mapper to spot those places where that's happened?
It's sad information of course but I would think it would have relevance at some level of the planning process for this city. It's been noted before that there seems to be no database of cyclist hits anywhere, shall we make this the start of it?
OverTheHill02.14.08 - 9:32 pm
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Warchild,
I posted a route named
LA BMP West SF Valley Owensmouth North-South Commute and both times Bikely shifted the purple route highlight line half a block West so it looks like I'm riding my bike off road, which is not correct. I deleted all the points then reloaded them but that didn't fix the offset. Dunno wassup.
OverTheHill02.14.08 - 11:54 pm
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Hi Gabe,
nice to know you are involved.
Maybe you could tell your people to tell our people that perhaps it shouldn't be illegal to take your bicycle on the Metro (light rail) during rush hour.
@Over the Hill. John looks like you are riding in the back alleys.
marino02.15.08 - 12:52 am
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OverTheHill:
I have that same problem, and apparently it's an issue with Safari, at least according to the Bikely forums. I went ahead and made some routes anyway, and I hope they look normal in other browsers.
angle02.15.08 - 1:21 am
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@marino and @angle,
Yeah, that's the problem! I laid it out down streets, but the route offsets half a block to the West so it looks like I'm riding through factory buildings and alleys! i'm on various Windoozzz machines with Firefox so they must have the problem too... Maybe a rounding issue with the numerics in javascript? Whatever, Bikeley or Google Maps has some compatibility testing and perhaps some "re-implementation" to do!
@Warchild,
Gabe, yes, glad you are doing this. Another item, if you have input to the MTA:
* 2 bikes per bus isn't enough now on the Orange Line. I have a foldie which thankfully the MTA allows onboard. Many times I've boarded with it while the racks up front are full. If my family of three didn't all have foldies and didn't have a car, we could not use bus+bike to go anywhere as a family for recreation!
* Ask the MTA to run the Red Line all night Friday night and Saturday night. This allows us to get back home from further-away rides. I'd like to think it might also keep a DUI driver or two out of his car.
* Bike lockers good for mixed mode commuting but ask MTA to relax the rules about full size bikes on board on lightly traveled routes on the weekends. Hey that one's free!
OverTheHill02.15.08 - 6:51 am
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morning riders,
i heard on kcrw this morning that pico and olympic are going one way. I know pico has a bike lane does olympic? will it?
http://cbs2.com/local/villaraigosa.pico.olympic.2.654732.html
et02.15.08 - 8:13 am
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If these streets go one-way, I believe that the plan is to eliminate the bike lanes.
The one-way issue has been coming up a lot at the Bicycle Advisory Committee meetings, and it's pretty much a raw deal for anybody who's not in a car. Villaraigosa's push to get it implemented is a new twist, and, in my mind, makes me question any claim he might make as far as promoting alternative transportation.
I know there's lots of other significant things going on, but if anyone cares about these issues, you absolutely need to get to one of the Bicycle Master Plan meetings and speak up about them.
angle02.15.08 - 10:31 am
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Bikely people have found and worked fast to fix the offset problem. If your route(s) got hit with offsets, to correct it you can delete all points then re-enter them. You don't have to dump your Description or Title (best not to so that your prior links stay live).
Ride on, and post your routes and Troublespots all!
OverTheHill02.18.08 - 8:10 am
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