Winners Along LA River

HERE'S MY SNAPSHOT of cyclists rolling north along the Los Angeles River bike path, gratefully receiving impromptu applause from the group of walkers touring Glassell Park and Atwater Village. (Tour led by LA's "stair master," Bob Inman.) As seen on The Source blog of LA County's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and my Flickr stream.

Baum Bridge is LA's 6th Busiest Bike Intersection

Alex Baum Bicycle Bridge, originally uploaded by councildistrictfour.

IN STUDIES conducted last September, LA Bike Count tracked bicyclists at 50 intersections around Los Angeles, including the Alex Baum Bicycle Bridge over Los Feliz Blvd., here in Atwater Village. The study lists Baum Bridge as the sixth busiest location in the study, just behind Sunset and Hyperion. (Complete PDF here.) Volunteers noted 369 cyclists over the course of 13 hours on Sept. 22, 23 and 26, 2009. The breakdown:

• Weekday AM: 110 cyclists (12 female, 98 male; 79% helmet use)
• Weekday PM: 164 cyclists (17 female, 147 male; 65% helmet use)
• Midday Weekend: 95 cyclists (15 female, 80 male; 64% helmet use)

Also interesting: only 105 pedestrians crossed Baum Bridge in the same timeframes. More analysis at The Eastsider LA.

Cyclists, AVNC Take Fight to Wall Street Journal

FROM THIS MORNING'S Wall Street Journal: The community organizer [Stephen Box] says he and about a dozen bloggers drafted a Cyclists Bill of Rights in January that he is presenting for a vote at neighborhood council meetings around the region. But Lenore Solis, a council member in Atwater Village, says she voted against it because the assertion of a right to "full access" on "all mass transit with no limitations" is too broad, and could be interpreted as a legal right to bike lanes on freeways.