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Open Letter to BH Traffic and Parking Commission
To: Bev Hills Traffic & Parking Commission From: Better Bike Re: Total lack of progress This week we at Better Bike celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Ad-Hoc Bike Plan Update Committee’s...
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Traffic & Parking Commission Meeting
Better Bike was in the house for last Thursday’s Traffic & Parking Commission meeting. Joining us were members Ron Durgin (of Sustainable Streets) and Aviv Kleinman, the latter a promising,...
View ArticleNew Traffic & Parking Chair Overlooks Active Transportation
A reader just brought to our attention that the incoming Chair of the Beverly Hills Traffic & Parking Commission, Julie Steinberg, didn’t even tip her hat to active transportation in a recent...
View ArticleTraffic & Parking Meeting correspondence 2/2/12
Better Bike appeared before the Traffic & Parking Commission this morning to deliver a letter outlining two straightforward suggestions for the ad-hoc Bike Plan Update Committee. First, forget the...
View ArticleTraffic & Parking Commission’s Priorities 2012/13
On the Traffic & Parking Commission’s priorities list for 2012/13 [staff report]: reconstruction of the Olympic-Beverly-Beverwil intersection. This junction poorly serves cyclists and pedestrians...
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City Council Gives Tacit Nod to Bike Pilot
Promo circulated by the free parking advocates in the 2011 March initiative. They got what they wanted: two hours free. What about cyclists? The City Council’s marathon study session last week (3/6)...
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Traffic & Parking Commission Regular Meeting
A city so proud of parking that we put a plaque on it! Better Bike dropped in on the Traffic & Parking Commission last week for an update on how the city will promote the upcoming Bike Routes Pilot...
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‘Whack-a-Mole’ Parking Restrictions Won’t Remedy Poor Policies
The lion’s share of a recent Traffic & Parking Commission meeting was devoted to residential area parking permits. Specifically, how to keep commercial area spillover parking from impacting our...
View ArticleParticipation Begins with Communication
Looking on the city website for this Weds. T&P Commission’s Pilot program meeting I find no posted agenda for it and no calendar listing of it. Looking at the Pilot documents page, I find no...
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Bike Route Pilot Process: [Too Much] Room for Improvement
Traffic and Parking Commission deliberates over the five Pilot program bike routes. Now that Traffic & Parking Commission has recommended three of five proposed Pilot program routes, the action...
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Traffic & Parking Commission Recommends Pilot Routes
Traffic and Parking Commission deliberates over the five Pilot program bike routes. Last week the Traffic & Parking Commission took public comment about the five corridors identified by the Bike...
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Bike Advocates’ New Safety Push
Bike advocates have upped their safety game. After many high-profile collisions over the past year (dutifully tracked and reported by blogger Ted Rogers), now we see a couple of new initiatives emerge...
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Our Public Records Request
When Traffic & Parking Commissioners discussed bike improvements in May, we saw that commissioners who met with bike advocates spoke up in support while others who hadn’t harbored misconceptions....
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Summer is a Time to Ride, a Time to Crash
Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day holidays are the traditional signposts of summer. Each respectively marks a change in the national mood, from optimism at the opening of the season, then the high...
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Bicycle Racks Proposal Comes to T&P Commission
Our city’s only contribution to bike racks in years: a new decal to existing racks more recognizable. The Beverly Hills Traffic & Parking Commission on Thursday morning will review a staff proposal...
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Bicycle Racks at Traffic & Parking [Recap]
Our city’s only contribution to bike racks in years: a new decal to existing racks more recognizable. If you’ve been waiting for Beverly Hills to install bike racks, we’ve got good news and bad. The...
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Taking a Closer Look at Beverly Hills Bike Collisions
Collision figures provided to our Traffic & Parking Commission from the Beverly Hills Police during the Pilot bike routes policy discussion. Not too much detail here! Bike Blogger Ted Rogers has...
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Breaking News: Worst of SM Blvd. Gets a Touch-up
Though Beverly Hills Dept. of Public Works has been adamant over the past year about NOT fixing Santa Monica Boulevard until fully reconstructed (sometime in 2015), the corridor got some much-needed...
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Traffic & Parking Recommends a Few Bike Racks [Recap]
The Beverly Hills Traffic & Parking Commission met this week to further consider a long-continued bicycle rack agenda item. In brief, the city is entertaining a bike parking program that could...
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Beverly Hills: Falling Down on Execution [editorial]
Beverly Hills says only Flash-based web browsers are welcome. “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” That tireless slogan is often uttered by policy pushers when they want to elevate...
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