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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Parking Day</title>
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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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