Off to CicLAvia…
Getting ready to disappear off to explore. the route. Should be fun, although it is a tad too hot a day for it to be perfect for cycling and wandering long in the sun. On the other hand, that will...
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CicLAvia Report
Well, it is not often I get to say this, but Sunday's CicLAvia event was, for me, completely perfect. It was simply about community, family, and enjoying the streets. It did not have an overtly...
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Glimpses of CicLAVia
CicLAvia this weekend was wonderful! Again, just like the inaugural one last year (see my post with lots of pictures) it felt like it was as perfect an event as can be expected. There were droves of...
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Did you hear yesterday's Fresh Air? It was very interesting indeed, being, as it was, about a subject that you probably know interests me a lot - electric cars. The guest was Seth Fletcher, and he was...
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Carmageddon Reaction
(Scroll to the end of this post for the funny thing I actually intended to post without my own musings getting in the way...) It has certainly been a huge story, with national and maybe even...
View ArticleCicLAvia!
Yes, another CicLAvia, another great time. You've read my posts about CicLAvia before, and if not, here are two previous reports (here, and here). More in the related posts at end. For today, I'll...
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CicLAVia April 2012
It was a perfect day for cycling, back on April 15th when the 4th CicLAVia took place. (Sorry it took me a while to report on it.) A lot of people turned out, and it was as good as it has ever been! We...
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Only Ten Hours…
Only ten hours until the Big Transformation! The Expo line will open to the public at 5:00am tomorrow (Saturday). I think that this first major thrust to the West, connecting downtown to USC,...
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Now Arriving…!
The new line rocks! I went down there with my Brompton on the earlier side of things, this morning. I took the Red Line and changed seamlessly to the Expo Line at Metro/7th, and it was an excellent...
View ArticleCicLAvia Today!
…and the new route for this time has a leg that runs down to USC and Exposition Park! There’s also a deeper run into East LA and into Chinatown! Check out the map and other information here. See...
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CicLAVia October 2012
Well, it was a lot of fun, once again. There was a huge turn out, and pretty much perfect weather for it (not the extreme heat of a week or two ago, for example). I was not part of a group this time,...
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CicLAvia and Festival of Books
Well, I'm exhausted, and so am certainly not going to give you a full report on everything right now. I hope to do another post with my usual time-lapse video of the ride some time later (but soon)....
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CicLAVia Time Lapse
Here's a timelapse video of the CicLAVia ride from Sunday 21st April. (I've done one for each of the past rides as well, so search on "ciclavia" for them if you wish.) My thoughts about the ride were...
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A Perfect CicLAVia?
Today's CicLAVia was, in my opinion, almost perfect. It was always my dream for it (long before it actually got off the ground) to be an event that closed all of Wilshire from Downtown to the beach, to...
View ArticleEnergy Pulse!
For your weekend listening: Recently, I chatted with Maiken Scott, the host of the podcast The Pulse (WHYY) about many everyday aspects of energy. It was a delightful conversation and episode. Listen...
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