A Bike Valentine from Long Beach
| Posted By: acrawford | February 14th, 2012 | Features | Comments: none |
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| Bikeable Communities is offering the Go Big or Go Home T-Shirt in memory of our dear friend Mark Bixby whose life ended tragically in an accident on March 16, 2011. Mark's favorite motto was "Go Big or Go Home" and in that spirit we will continue the pursuit of his mission for bicycle advocacy. | |
| Click HERE to Join, Donate and Buy T-Shirts. | |
| Posted By: acrawford | February 14th, 2012 | Features | Comments: none |
Getting women and girls on bikes will make a difference in your community….and there are lots of people in the Southern California…working to make it happen.
Yesterday Bikeable Communities launched the Long Beach based Women on Bikes Initiative.
The purpose of the initiative is to encourage and enable more women and girls to include bicycling in their routine activities in order to provide them with a more active and healthy live style.
We know that Long Beach, like most other communities throughout the US, has a health issue; over 20% of our students between grades 5 and 9 are obese. The numbers for grade 5 are a staggering 31%. And we know that active living can make a big difference with this issue. Read more »
| Posted By: acrawford | February 10th, 2012 | Features | Comments: none |
Want to avoid the parking lot rush????
Pretty much every Saturday the Trader Joe’s parking lot in the Bixby Knolls area of Long Beach looks like this.
What can you do to avoid this scene…and frustration?
Thanks to the Pedalers’ Society it is as easy as 1-2-3…
| Posted By: acrawford | February 5th, 2012 | Features | Comments: none |
BIKEable Communities and twenty ardent supporters spend a few hours at “The Hub” building bikes and working on the facility.

The Hub is a volunteer based non-profit organization in Long Beach that takes old bikes (with a few newer ones thrown in), reconditions them and then either gives them or sells them at low cost to people in the community in need of a bike.
The Hub started two years ago with some help from the City of Long Beach and a $10,000 grant though Waste Management to recycle bikes.
| Posted By: acrawford | January 29th, 2012 | Features | Comments: none |
I’m over the top enthused about the video on Bike Friendly Long Beach done by Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and his team. It says so much about how Long Beach is setting the standard for being bike friendly….and more importantly the difference it is making in our community.
| Posted By: acrawford | January 21st, 2012 | Features | Comments: none |
On Monday December 19th, 2011 the Long Beach Harbor Commission approved a revised Environmental Impact Report that gave final authorization to proceed with the replacement for the Gerald Desmond bridge…including a separated bike path.
But this would not have happened without the voice of one person…Mark Bixby.
| Posted By: acrawford | December 20th, 2011 | Advocacy, Features, G-Desmond Bridge | Comments: none |
Looking for a way to shake the holiday doldrums from too many goodies? Or just an excuse to get out and ride? Have you perhaps been hankering for some really good wurst? We’ve got you covered! Join us Friday Dec. 23rd at 9:30 am for a 19.5 mile cruise from the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach to downtown L.A. up the Los Angeles river trail to downtown L.A.’s famous “Wurstkuche” for an early no host lunch of some terrific wurst and even better craft beer.
| Posted By: Melissa.Media | December 19th, 2011 | Getting People to Ride | Comments: none |
It pays to mind media attention and business generation when measuring bicycling impact on your community.
How do you measure the impact (and benefits) of becoming a bicycle friendly community?
You can count the number of people riding on a regular basis, you can look at the number of kids who ride their bikes to school, you can look at the growth of bike related businesses and the impact on your local business economy, you can do surveys.
And of course you can see what the press is saying about your city.
The January 2012 issue of Sunset Magazine, Western America’s largest-circulation regional magazine (more than 1 million subscribers), highlighted Long Beach’s East Village and touted it as a “bike to” destination.”Sunset Article – bike in LB003
“Long Beach is quickly becoming one of the most bike-friendly cities in the States. Get in on the Action at the Bikestation.”
“How to experience it (referring to the Long Beach’s East Village Art District): On foot or, even better, by bike. SoCal’s first separated bike lanes run down Broadway and Third Street; on weekly Bike Saturdays (bikelongbeach.org), two wheeled travelers get discounts at participating shops and eateries.”
Read more »
| Posted By: acrawford | December 18th, 2011 | Features | Comments: 2 |
The Port of Long Beach looks set to approve the EIR with Bike and Ped Path for Gerald Desmond Bridge
Another major milestone along the path to build a separated bicycle and pedestrian facility on the replacement for the Gerald Desmond Bridge will occur on December 19 when the Long Beach harbor commission meets to review and approve the Final Environmental Impact Report for the bridge.
The revised EIR includes two elements, the bike and ped path and noise control requirements associated with pile-driving and drilling activities
The city of Long Beach bicycle staff meet with port planners and a representative of the California Coastal Commission to get a preview of what will be presented to the harbor commissioners as well as to talk about next steps in building the path as well as connecting it into downtown Long Beach.
| Posted By: acrawford | December 11th, 2011 | Features, G-Desmond Bridge, Infrastructure | Comments: 5 |
There is nothing like a parade to help celebrate the holiday’s. And this year Bikeable Communities joined into Long Beach’s Belmont Shore festivities. With over 35 participants the group came together to promote the message of Share our Streets and to raise funds for bicycling advocacy and education.
The message conveyed was…..Share our Streets. Streets are public spaces that bicyclists, motorists and pedestrians need to share…and where they need to feel safe as well as welcome. Bicyclists ranging in age from under 5 to over 70 joined in the fun to promote the message of sharing our streets.
| Posted By: acrawford | December 6th, 2011 | Features | Comments: none |