Comments for League of Bicycling Voters Los Angeles

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by Anderson Gottemoeller

Anderson Gottemoeller — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:43:32 +0000

I checked out something very much the same to your “Consider this your wake up call.” post at a different site I frequent… anyway, I think apple is usually overrated but has a handful of excellent things also.

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by A Cyclist

A Cyclist — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:31:33 +0000

Yo!

What happened to this? It’s November 1st, 2010. I don’t see a list of recommendations on what this “Bike Voters League” thinks of the coming election, which waddyaknow is to-morrow.

Is this yet another infamous “Michael Cahn” project that fails to become anything more than a whimsy of imagination?

This is disappointing so far, to say the least. I hope for more from you.

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by Justin Roth

Justin Roth — Sat, 15 May 2010 07:32:29 +0000

I greatly enjoyed and completely agree with Joe, Michael Cahn and Josef Bray-Ali’s comments.

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by Josef Bray-Ali

Josef Bray-Ali — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:41:03 +0000

CD,

You bring up a good point about policing cyclists, but I personally feel that is terrible idea. Providing bicycle facilities greatly reduces the frequency of sidewalk riding and other dangerous behaviors.

Running stop signs is against the law, but in states that have made it legal there has been no increase in deaths nor injuries. I feel that the law in California is on the wrong side of physics.

When a bike rider does something erratic on the road, you may feel they make you look bad, you may feel that they are putting their own lives in danger – and you’re probably right! The thing that softens my judgment of other cyclists is the relative risk to others that a cyclist poses as opposed to an automobile. There is no contest in measuring the impact of a an erratic driver and a foolhardy cyclist – the car is the killing machine, the cyclist either an idiot, a masochist, or both.

Marketing the notion of bicycling as a normal, every day activity, requires a focuson the positive aspects of the activity. How many car commercials show the bloody deaths of those aged 0 to 24 (the #1 cause of death for this age group is automobile related crashes)? If you advertise the danger and risks of cycling, your campaign will discourage cyclists – and one of the surest ways to make cycling safer is to increase our numbers!

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by CD

CD — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:28:33 +0000

Where is the ‘Responsible Cycling’ section of this site? As a long-time, long-distance cyclist, I’m often appalled at the bad behavior that I see as standard, at least here on the westside:
- blowing through Stop signs.
- ’stopping’ at Stop signs w/o unclipping. aka The Balancing Act/Velodrome wannabe
- driving on the street against traffic
- changing from cyclist to pedestrian back to cyclist, without dismounting and walking the bike. Ex: “left turn at intersection” by riding on right side, then turning left across traffic into crosswalk, then right into opposite corner’s crosswalk, then left when at right side of cross-street.
- No lights at night, no signals ever.
- Velodome bikes in traffic. aka fixees. Sorry, but if there’s no mechanical brake, you’re a fool and a hazard.
- And with all the pedestrians, kids, handicaps, aged, you could not PAY me to be stupid enough to ride on a sidewalk, especially against traffic on the related road, especially at speed through crosswalks. To ride on the sidewalk is to me, by definition, operation of a vehicle in “willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons,” especially myself. Maybe there’s a reason it’s not called a “sideride.”

These behaviors by stupid riders make me less safe, because drivers just assume that either there are no rules for bicyclists, or that, unlike them, no one ever enforces them. So they treat us as hazards and idiots, as well as competitors for road space.

So whether or not I follow the rules when I ride tomorrow on a fiftyfive mile trainer from Santa Monica to PV and back, the jerks that blow stop signs, and weave through traffic, tar me with their incompetence.

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by Michael Cahn

Michael Cahn — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:18:10 +0000

Robert: A cyclist is a cyclist is a cyclist, noon or midnight, party cyclist of burial cyclist, come ye all, come ye all, and let us transform the vague sense of euphoria of community into the political power of community, and let us work towards the sweet taste of political success in the name of doing the right thing

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by Robert

Robert — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:53:31 +0000

Are you actively seeking attention from casual/party bikers aka midnightridazz?

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:44:28 +0000

Good plan. Safer streets for bikes.

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by Joe

Joe — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:48:20 +0000

Last election I would have loved to have a list of the candidates and where they stand on bike issues.

Comment on Consider this your wake up call. by ubrayj02

ubrayj02 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:01:26 +0000

This whole thing has got me really excited. With the real work being put in by so many different bicyclists, I feel like we’re about to really change the way transportation and politics are done in L.A.