Alex Baum: A Tribute
On March 1st 2015, Los Angeles and the world lost a giant in the world of bicycle advocacy when Alex Baum passed away at 92 years old. A modest man of great integrity, he may have accomplished more in his over 40+ years of bicycle advocacy than all the advocacy groups combined. He never met a bicycle project, […]
LA Bike Plan Passes Unanimously
Today the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed the Los Angeles Bike Plan. It is no longer a draft document. Everyone’s goal at the March 1, 2011 Council session was to do whatever necessary to get the plan passed today. Councilman LaBonge needed to give his equestrian constituents something they could live with so that […]
Mountain Bike Component of LA Bike Plan In Jeopardy!
Anyone interested in riding their bicycle off-pavement in any Los Angeles City Park needs to be at the Los Angeles City Council Meeting this Tuesday March 1. According to sources close to the City Council, the mountain bike feasibility study is about to get stripped out of the bike plan. City Council member Tom LaBonge […]
LA Planning Commission Approves Bike Plan
The City of Los Angeles Planning Commission passed the proposed bike plan yesterday December 15, 2010. It now goes to the Mayor for 30 days, then to the Transportation Committee of City Council, then to the full Council. Mark Langton and Steve Messer of CORBA, and Jim Hasenauer of IMBA attended. Langton and Hasenauer spoke […]
LA Bike Plan to go before Planning Commission
The 2010 Bicycle Plan staff report and related documents for the City Planning Commission (CPC) meeting are now available on the LA Bike Plan project website (http://www.labikeplan.org). The Staff Report which accompanies the plan states specifically that the anti-mountain bike lobby were more vocal in their opposition, and nothing in the plan changes the status quo regarding […]
CORBA at the So Cal High School MTB League Leader’s Summit
“The greatest recent innovation in mountain biking isn’t twenty-nine inch wheels, ten speed rear shifting, adjustable travel or carbon fiber. It’s high school mountain bike racing. This is shaping the future of our sport,” said CORBA board member Steve Messer at the recent High School Mountain Bike League Leader’s Summit. The Summit is required training […]
KLOS – Spotlight on the Community
CORBA’s Mark Langton and Steve Messer recently spent some quality time with radio DJ Cynthia Fox. They will be appearing this coming Sunday on the KLOS program Spotlight on the Community. In the half-hour segment Langton and Messer will be talking about the Fat Tire Fest as well as CORBA’s advocacy and outreach programs. Cynthia’s enthusiastic […]
2010 LA Bike Plan Comments
The following is CORBA’s official response to the off-road cycling components of the most recent draft of the L.A. Bike Plan. ——————————————————————————– Jordann Turner Los Angeles Department of City Planning 200 N. Spring Street, Rm 721 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Re: Draft L.A. Bike Plan, Dear Mr. Turner, Thanks for the opportunity to comment on […]