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		<title>LA&#8217;S Department of DIY is back&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last July, I wrote an article in Bicycling magazine about our hometown &#8220;Department of DIY,&#8221; the group that painted a much-needed bike lane on bridge that crossed the Los Angeles River - a spot that where a lane had been proposed, promised, and even funded by the city, over and over again, but where no facility had ever happened, despite the documented danger cyclists faced there. The article evoked a lot of debate. Metblogs was the first to notice the lane, here. Activist Stephen Box wrote about it here; Toronto&#8217;s Urban Repair Squad &#8211; the mothership of all home-made bike lane projects &#8211; featured it here; and I revisited the topic at StreetsblogLA (a series of posts and articles followed, rounding out the debate.) I just received a communique from the Department of DIY announcing its latest action &#8211; in conjunction with today&#8217;s Parking Day celebration (for the uninitiated: a special day when we take over parking spaces, paying the meter fees to use the section of roadway for something else &#8211; art, protest, selling cookies, and making sweet, sweet love&#8230;) Here are pictures of the sign and a statement from the Department. (Perhaps not obviously, whether the city actually is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metro Ninnies: Sunset Interupted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My lovely new bride and I are off on our honeymoon this morning. We trundle our luggage down to Sunset and Coronado (in Silverlake) to take the Metro bus to Union Station, where we&#8217;ll catch the fabulous Flyaway &#8211; still a bargain, despite the recent fare increase to seven bucks &#8211; to LAX.The trip ignites one of my oldest rants/evidentiary diatribes concerning the baffling dunder-ninniehood of our city&#8217;s transit apparatchiks. Sunset Boulevard (aka Cesar Chavez Avenue, east of Broadway) is arguably LA&#8217;s most important thoroughfare. It is certainly among the longest, snaking from the Pacific through the West Side, crossing the Sepulveda Pass, sweeping by UCLA, through Bel-Air, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Hollywood proper before it reaches my neck of the woods and angles downtown, crossing the Los Angeles River, and &#8211; renamed &#8211; stretches deep into East LA. That&#8217;s over 35 miles, and just after the rechristening point, it skirts the north side of Union Station, transit hub for Amtrak, the Gold and Red light rail, and Metrolink commuter trains &#8211; along with the airport bus. But despite Sunset&#8217;s importance, and despite the fact that it actually constitues one edge of the station complex, you can&#8217;t get there [...]]]></description>
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