Fred Kent, Placemaker
Last January Fred did a talk followed by a walk; I was in the audience. He was visiting several cities on this tour through the west — Los Altos, Stanford University, Pasadena, Riverside and Long Beach — where civic leaders…
The Economic Impact of Bicycling
She's recently returned from speaking engagements in Toronto and at the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC; Green Octopus Consulting's April Economides speaks about how bicycling pays for local businesses. In 2010 the City of Long Beach got a LA…
Pro Walk/Pro Bike, Here I Come
After meeting Fred Kent, President of the Partnership for Public Spaces and sponsor of the upcoming Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference in Long Beach I jumped on the early-bird registration. Join me and many other Southern California bike advocates, September 10-13,…
Dining in the Street
Dinner only cost $20,000 last night. That’s not what I paid; for me it was only $20. The restauranteur shelled out the 20 large tacos to pay for the outdoor seating.
Long Beach bike advocates held a celebratory dinner last night. The occasion? The City’s first parklet in Retro Row outside Lola’s Mexican Cuisine restaurant. Charlie Gandy, Women on Bikes SoCal and the Bikeable Communities crowd were all in attendance. I met Jennifer Klausner, Executive Director of the LA County Bicycle Coalition.
Privileging Local Users
"It's the Business District that insisted on the traffic lights." I met Charlie Gandy for coffee early Sunday morning and when you're in Belmont Shore with Charlie it doesn't take long for the conversation to turn to Sharrows. Every time…
Suja Lowenthal, Transforming a Built-Out City
It’s the difference between being a defeatist about how you see your city and being eternally optimistic about what your role can beSuja Lowenthal Mark Bixby invited me to lunch, "I'm meeting Suja downtown at Congregation, come along?" We felt…