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Want safer roads for biking and walking? Sign this Petition Today!

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Want safer roads for biking and walking? Sign this Petition Today!

 Please sign this critical petition today to make Southern California safer for Bicyclists and Pedestrians!

The new Regional Transportation Plan affecting 18 million people over 24 years, has only 1.3% of the budget dedicated for “Active Transportation.” With 25% of traffic casualties being bicycles and pedestrians – the L.A. Public Health Department is recommending closer to 8% for meaningful change.

Powerful testimony from medical professionals, schools, and others is profoundly changing the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) discussion about the transportation budget. But we need to show massive public support!  Watch the video, Sign the petition, and pass it on!!  www.active-transit.org

The paper petition can be found at www.vccool.org/petition.pdf .  Instructions are at the bottom of each petition.

BikeUP! LA

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A Benefit for the California Bicycle Coalition

Wednesday, February 8th, from 7 to 9pm at the Living Room in Silver Lake (3531 W. Sunset Blvd)!

A group of really passionate folks in Silver Lake are organizing a benefit event for the California Bicycle Coalition on Wednesday, February 8th. The theme of the night is making the City of LA (and the LA region) more bike-able, by shaking things up in Sacramento. Dave Snyder, the ED of the California Bicycle Coalition will be at the event to talk about the work CBC is doing and local electeds CM Tom LaBonge and possibly CM Eric Garcetti will also be attendance.
This is a fundraiser but the event is free and open to everyone. Please spread the word and I hope I will see you all on Wednesday.

Save the Date LACBC Winter Merriment & Volunteers Needed for Bike Valet

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 11:30am - 11:00pm

 

Save the date! We’re back at the Library Alehouse to close out 2011! Stop by, grab some grub, bring your friends, and hang out. Ten percent of all sales on the 27th benefit LACBC at this fundraiser, so you’ll be supporting bicycle advocacy just by eating and drinking! You’ll also have the chance to to enter our raffle and win a new Tern folding bike.

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Once again Santa Monica Spoke will support the event providing Free Bike valet!

We need volunteers!  

Bike Valet hours are 5-10pm in 2-3 hour shifts.
Please click here to email us Volunteer@SMSpoke.org –  let us know when you’re available.
Special FREE raffle just for volunteers!

LACBC’s Mid-Winter Merriment at the Library Alehouse

When: Tuesday, December 27; 11:30 AM – 11:00 PM
Where: Library Alehouse – 2911 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA

Holiday Charity Ride, Benefiting Ralph’s Riders on behalf of Russell Moon

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Date:   December 17th
Time:   7:30am – 11:00am
Meet:   Santa Monica Bike Center

Each year a local “Fashion Show” cycling group gathers during the holidays to ride throughout the west side of Los Angeles and spread good cheer to unsuspecting homeless throughout these communities. They generally bring small gift cards and small amounts of cash to surprise the homeless they come upon.

This year tragedy struck our local west side cycling group when Dr. Russell Moon was struck by a car on Allenford Ave. He was just returning from an afternoon mountain bike ride. Dr. Moon’s injuries are life changing as he is now paralyzed from the neck down and currently relies on a respirator. The accident has sickened many of us and heightened our awareness about our own fragility.

The group will ride in Russell’s honor and raise donations for Ralph’s Riders Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which enables individuals with spinal cord injuries and paralysis to achieve their highest level of independence, health and personal fulfillment. Ralph’s Riders Foundation brings people living with a spinal cord injury together with those living with similar injuries who have overcome seemingly insurmountable odds and are living life at its fullest.

The ride will take place on December 17th, 2011 at 7:30AM, meeting at The Santa Monica Bike Center, 1555 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA (310) 656-8500 and will conclude at Bike Improve 10929 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025 (310) 400-0363 where they will have refreshments and the proceeds from any sales at the shop will go to the charity, Ralph’s Riders.

Total ride time should be approx. 2-2-1/2 hrs., including some rest stops along the way.

Read the Inspiration behind Ralph’s Riders Foudtion here

facebook event here

 

Thursday party & fundraiser for LA.StreetsBlog,org

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LA.StreetsBlog first annual end of the year party and fundraiser ….. WOW that’s a mouth full!

Join us this Thursday to support LA.StreetsBlog.org – the venue has been changed but the party, prizes and fun will all be there in the new venue!

Thursday, December 8th at 6:30pm

At Earl’s Gourmet Grub, 12226 Venice Boulevard between Grand View Boulevard and Ocean View Avenue (or between Inglewood and Centinella for those using larger streets.)

Suggested donation is $25, but everything is on a sliding scale. For more information, check out the “top ten reasons” to party with Streetsblog we published earlier or sign up for the event on Facebook.  You might have noticed that the Streetsblogs are holding an end of the year fundraising drive, if you use that link you can donate ahead of time, but make sure that you specify that you want your donation to go to Los Angeles.

While Streetsblog has prospered, the City of Los Angeles has begun to move towards livability itself.  In the past year, ground broke on Expo Phase II in Santa Monica, the Gold Line Foothill Extension continued into the suburbs, Los Angeles embraced a Bus Only Lanes proposal for Downtown to Beverly Hills and a portion of the Westside, and implementation of the surprisingly-progressive Bike Plan has begun.  We’ve been there to cover it all, and we’ll be there into next year as debate on the Crenshaw Line and west side Subway stays hot, new Bus Only Lane plans move forward, the City continues to figure out how to do bike planning and other stories break around the city.

But for a couple hours this Thursday, let’s celebrate how far we’ve come, and how much farther we’re going to go.  Join L.A. Streetsblog, our Streetsie Award winners Colin Bogart, Sunyoung Yang, Rye Baerg, Dana Gabbard and Brigham Yen (what’s-his-name is going to be in Asia) and many of the people that make Livable Streets advocacy so successful and so fun.  We’ll have food, New Belgium Beer, wine, non-alcoholic drinks and the premier of our Spanish Language Streetfilms by Social | Impact Consulting, LLC.