LA County Bicycle Coalition www.la-bike.org

New Bike Parking Community Resource Guide Out!

We’ve got something sweet to start your New Years with! What better to welcome 2010 than with an über-detailed guide on how to install bike parking en masse, no less, in your community!

City of Lights volunteer Andy Rodriguez About to Get Down and Dirty w/the Measuring Tape

LACBC, through the City of Lights campaign, which reaches out to day laborer cyclists in Pico Union, has embarked on the first campaign to increase substantial amounts of bike parking (besides the effort by Rick Marquez to get a Highland Park bike corral) in Los Angeles since Fall ’09. It is key to City of Lights and LACBC that more bike advocacy have elements of  equity and environmental justice.

With a vigilance normally reserved for century riders, we researched the bike parking installation process,  sent out volunteers (Planning in action, y’all!) to scope various areas in the Macarthur/Pico-Union area, and partnered with Ed Reyes’ Office and LADOT to make it happen, ideally by Spring 2010. Naturally, while all of this is public information, it is difficult to access (usually in separate databases or departments), much less make sense of. We wanted to make the fruits of our labor easy to understand and accessible to other community groups, concerned citizens, neighborhood councils,  even business improvement districts!

Here is a link to download our Bike Parking Community Resource Guide, please spread widely!