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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mayor Villaraigosa’s ‘Bike Summit’
It was a full house for the Mayor’s Bike Summit at the Metro Headquarters in downtown Los Angeles today. Hundreds of cyclists from all sorts of cycling disciplines and backgrounds converged on Gateway Plaza to have their concerns heard directly by the Mayor. The mayor opened the meeting talking about his new-found respect for cyclists […]