🚲💚 5 YEARS STRONG!

Our Bike Safety Camp + Earth Day Celebration is back on Saturday, August 29th — and we’re rolling into our threshold year with BIG community love at Magnolia Ave Elementary! 🌱✨

Over the past five years, we’ve raffled close to 400 bikes to local kids — FOUR. HUNDRED. BIKES. 🤯🔥 And we’re not slowing down!

This year we’re leveling up with:

🎒 Back‑to‑School Backpack Giveaway

🥬 Fresh Grocery Distribution

🚲 Bike Raffle + Safety Course

🎨 Arts & Crafts + Sustainability Fun

🚲✨ Kids are encouraged to bring their own bikes so they can ride the safety course, learn how to ride safely, and show off their skills!

Huge love to our partners:

💚 CD1 for the fresh grocery bags

💚 Senator Durazo + Loyola High School for the back‑to‑school backpacks

💚 CHP for keeping our kids safe with free helmets

💚 Mayor Bass for the rental support that helps make this event possible

💚 LAFD for donating 600 traffic cones to build our biggest bike course yet

💚 Pico Union Neighborhood Council for their ongoing community leadership

💚 Westlake South Neighborhood Council for supporting our neighborhood families

Metro is seeking community members to serve on its Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC), a diverse group of riders and community representatives who provide feedback and recommendations to help create a transit system that is safe, welcoming, and responsive to the needs of all riders.

Apply online here.

Whether you commute to work, travel to school, run errands or rely on Metro every day, your experiences matter. PSAC members have the opportunity to share their perspectives, collaborate with Metro staff and help inform public safety strategies that reflect the communities Metro serves.

Metro welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and encourages participation from individuals whose perspectives help reflect the diversity of Los Angeles County — including youth, women, older adults, and people with disabilities. U.S. citizenship is not required to apply.

Metro is seeking individuals with lived experience as transit riders and/or knowledge in areas such as:

• Transit equity
• Public safety
• Community advocacy
• Law enforcement
• Racial justice
• Victims’ rights
• Mental health
• Homelessness
• Social services

Applications for Metro’s Public Safety Advisory Committee will be accepted until September 8, 2026.

SBLA interviews Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson on the occasion of his new documentary, Close Encounters of the 34th Avenue Kind: The Story of NYC's Best Open Street.

The City of West Hollywood has launched a new incentive program that will provide up to 50 residents with vouchers covering the full cost of an electric bicycle, part of an effort to reduce car trips and advance the city’s climate action goals.

Applications will be accepted through Aug. 31, 2026. The program is open to West Hollywood residents age 18 and older, with 50 recipients to be selected through a random lottery expected to take place in early September. Residents from low- to moderate-income households will receive priority.

The vouchers can be redeemed at Bike Shop LA, a West Hollywood retailer participating in the program. In addition to covering the full purchase price of an eligible e-bike, each voucher includes bicycle maintenance for the duration of the participant’s involvement in the program.

Eligible bicycles include commuter, cruiser, cargo and compact folding e-bike models.

Event: CicLAvia Pasadena, an Open Streets event.

When: Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026.

Time: Hours have not been announced.

Cost: Free; no tickets required.

Where: A portion of Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, with a connection to the Metro A Line Memorial Park station. Route maps and street closure information will be released in the coming weeks.

For more, email city planner Tony Jusay at ajusay@cityofpasadena.net, or visit cityofpasadena.net or ciclavia.org.

The project is set to be completed before the 2028 Olympics. A presentation to the Los Angeles Board of Cultural Affairs Commisioners unveils new renderings for a planned expansion of the Watts Towers Art Center campus.

The honesty was refreshing. "We are, in some ways, confined to prior agreements that were made as a condition of agreeing to host the games that include inherent risk," Matt Szabo, Los Angeles's City Administrative Officer, said solemnly to the city council. "So I need to say that on the front end."

The back end was no better than the front end. "Of all the scenarios where there is inherent risk, the worst is for us to write a check to close a deficit at the end of the games," said Szabo. "If it is not financially successful, it does fall to us. There is nothing that we can propose to you — today, or tomorrow, or next year — that would eliminate that risk."

I like that she's involved with ActiveSGV.org, a local progressive non-profit I support. Saved you a click:

Wong said her campaign will focus on keeping Alhambra affordable, strengthening neighborhoods and making City Hall more accessible, transparent and responsive.

Wong is a first-generation college graduate and the daughter of immigrants. She currently serves as a public health adviser with the South Coast Air Quality Management District. She previously worked with Day One and has spent more than a decade working on public health, transportation, parks, environmental issues and civic engagement throughout the San Gabriel Valley.

Through organizations including ActiveSGV, SGV Progressive Action and Matilija Collective, Wong has worked with residents, schools, nonprofits and local governments on community projects. She has also served for five years as a planning commissioner, according to her campaign biography.

Most recently, Wong helped lead a campaign to prohibit data centers in Monterey Park. She also co-founded SGV Progressive Action during the COVID-19 pandemic and has worked on efforts involving community engagement and opposition to anti-Asian hate.

Wong said her priorities as a council candidate include improving neighborhood safety, expanding affordable housing, supporting small businesses, improving parks and mobility, strengthening environmental sustainability and increasing public participation in local government.

“I love Alhambra and believe our best days are ahead of us,” Wong said.

Wong and her husband live in Alhambra.

The general election will be held Nov. 3, 2026.

Sign up to volunteer with her campaign at amyforalhambra.com

The councilmember was removed as chair of the Los Angeles City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee amid her run for mayor.

Woodland Hills last day of business: 8/29/26 https://www.facebook.com/rattana.hnoi/posts/pfbid02qSNoPUicMia9PqurtNa8bdqixX5H3q1vvWwpXPp4mem21XUonQjd2jgNLXJRtjbTl

The other two: 8/31/26.

Note that Rattana's post says she will keep the other two open, but that might be old news, according to the post her close friend Kim Delgado made.

Ride. Explore. Lead.

LA Rooted: Paar on the Move is a bike club where young people can build bike skills, explore their city, and connect with nature and community. The program takes place at the Paar Bike Hub at Rio de Los Angeles State Park and is open to youth ages 10–17 who are ready to learn, ride, and adventure together.

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LA Rooted: Paar on the Move es un club para jóvenes en bicicletas donde jóvenes pueden aprender a usar la bicicleta para explorar su ciudad y conectarse con la naturaleza en Los Ángeles. El programa se lleva a cabo en el Paar Bike Hub en Rio de Los Angeles State Park y está abierto a jóvenes de 10 a 17 años que quieran aprender, rodar en grupo y vivir nuevas aventuras.

An update to this post from 2 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/CarIndependentLA/comments/1u0m5hb/beverly_hills_considers_microtransit_program/

What Andert argues in his video is that LINXS has effectively ransomed LAX to the tune of $880 million — so far — to complete the supposedly less than 3 percent that remains to be built on the project. His conclusion, which he insists are “just my opinions,” is backed up by the grand jury report that determined “the Contractor leveraged the change order process” — usually reserved to accommodate minor redesigns or delays in the project — “by implicitly holding out the threat of litigation to force LAWA [Los Angeles World Airports] to agree to the change orders, and to get the project completed in time for the high profile events so as not to embarrass the City.” No recommendations were made off the grand jury report, which appears to be solely a fact-finding exercise by L.A. County.

Shortly after the video published, LINXS sued LAWA alleging multiple breaches of contract. “After extensive good-faith efforts over the past two years failed to resolve these issues directly and amicably with LAWA, the applicable statute of limitations required LINXS to file this complaint to preserve its legal rights,” a LINXS spokesperson tells THR, adding that they remain committed to “successfully deliver” the people mover.

With his video, Andert was able to do something that incremental reporting by local news outlets could not — get people to care. “The video broke containment,” Andert says. The exposé got more than 116,000 clicks, nearly triple his normal view count, in less than a month and has quickly spread across social media, where influencers discuss Andert’s findings with their thousands of followers. Nithya Raman, the L.A. city councilmember and mayoral candidate, tells THR that she is a fan of Andert’s videos: “I really appreciate how he’s raised awareness about the problems that have led to the LAX people mover’s delays and massive cost overruns.”

Andert says he was encouraged by the response. “I’ve had a reporter contact me who’s doing more investigative reporting on it after seeing the video,” Andert says, adding that LINXS has taken down its website amid the uptick in scrutiny about its role on the project.

As we pull into the Wilshire/Fairfax station, I ask Andert if he thinks the LAX people mover will open this year, or even by the 2028 Olympics? He pauses: “I’m not holding my breath.”