Fun thing about diabetes.
High blood sugar makes you sleep. But so does low blood sugar.
And cycling between the two, like I did Tuesday, can knock you out for hours, regardless of whether you’re trying to write something.
Which is why you didn’t see anything here yesterday.
But we’ll more than make up for it today.
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Streetsblog’s Joe Linton offers a long list of actionable transportation ideas for incoming CD1 Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, including busways, bike lanes and pedestrian improvements.
Hernandez leadership promises a sea change in the district, where the councilmember she defeated, “Roadkill” Gil Cedillo, earned his sobriquet by blocking virtually every major safety improvement and bike lane in the district, including deadly North Figueroa.
Meanwhile, Linton also offers updates on a handful of new bike lanes in Central Los Angeles, including:
- Sixth Street Bridge connection in Skid Row and the Arts District
- Ramirez Street/Center Street/Santa Fe Ave in the Arts District
- Avenue 19 in Lincoln Heights
He also points out the missed opportunity on North Spring Street in Chinatown, where the street, which is scheduled for a bike lane in the city’s mobility plan, was recently resurfaced.
Sans bike lane, of course.
disappointed that Spring St (by the LA Historic State Park) was repaved last week and striped without bike lanes as recommended by the mobility plan pic.twitter.com/p0ySZStm1S
— Austin ???? (@multimodalLA) November 2, 2022
As Linton points out, this is exactly why we need the Healthy Streets LA ballot proposal, which is scheduled for a public vote in 2024.
The proposal would force the city to build out the mobility plan whenever a section of street contained in the plan is resurfaced.
Meanwhile, the city’s alternative proposal, which is based on Healthy Streets but likely to lack the enforcement mechanism of the ballot measure, is due back for a vote of the city council in the next few weeks.
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Culver City has crunched the numbers on the 1.3-mile Move Culver City complete streets project along Culver and Washington Blvds.
And the results have been impressive, to say the least.
- 52% jump in bus ridership
- 32% increase in bicycling
- 18% climb in walking
- Nearly double (92%) micromobility trips
Maybe that will encourage Los Angeles to give it a try.
We can hope, right?
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Metro’s Community Advisory Council urges the Metro board to reject the proposal to “simplify” the fare structure, which is really just a massive rate increase for many, if not most, transit users.
Never mind that it’s the opposite of the fare-free transit they promised to study.
The LA Metro Community Advisory Council has prepared this draft letter regarding the impending fare increase proposal, for ratification at executive committee Friday (the framework had already passed at last week’s general meeting). pic.twitter.com/6EfywCYDYI
— Henry Fung (@calwatch) November 2, 2022
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Whittier Blvd’s Esquina Bicycle Shop is hosting a vigil ride for fallen bicyclist Sergio Cordova tonight.
Cordova was killed in a collision at the west entrance to the new 6th Street Bridge last Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a crowdfunding campaign for Cordova’s funeral expenses has raised over $9,500 of the revised $15,000 goal.
Thanks to Susannah L for the heads-up.
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Did someone say handcycling?
Join us THIS SATURDAY for Pasadena’s 4th annual Adaptive Sports Festival! People of all abilities are invited to enjoy this FREE, fun-filled day of activities, including handcycling, archery, wheelchair rugby, pickleball, power soccer, tennis & more: https://t.co/w1Nph61YLc pic.twitter.com/Q0Y7WDJPiP
— City of Pasadena (@PasadenaGov) November 3, 2022
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Streets For All will host another virtual happy hour on Wednesday, featuring Glendale Councilmember Ara Najarian.
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Apparently, robots are no more likely to stop…