Join us on April 6th at 10am for a great ride from one of South LA’s great Healthy Food and Culture spaces, The Mercado La Paloma, through some of our distinctive neighborhoods to Normandie Ave Elementary for Earth Day South LA. It will be a great day of community building and healthy activity that will [...]
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Earth Day Event on April 6th
Current Events
Next events in South LA around bicycling and social justice include: May is bike month!Metro has events posted on their site as does LACBC check them out! May 9, 2013 Complete Streets Forum will be convening from 6-8pm at 3731 Stocker St. Los Angeles CA 90008 (CHC office). May 15, 2013 Ride of Silence. In Los Angeles CA from 7pm-10pm. Click here [...]
March 3rd Ride for Safer Routes & Healthy Food
On March 3rd 2013, we hosted a bike parade to launch our new Healthy Food Map for South L.A., featuring live delivery of vegetables by bicycle. Our ride video with interviews and more A zipcode map of where people came from for the ride Press coverage included NBC 4, KPCC’s OnCentral, USC Press, and [...]
City Planners Ride to Watts
Below are a few reflections from Otto Khera of the RideSouthLA team, who joined the ride. For an extended discussion, see coverage of the ride from Sahra Sulaiman. The ride was part of the Neighborhood Bike Ambassadors Program – South LA organized by the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. On Saturday, December 8, 2012 a [...]
FoodPrint Walk Downtown
UPDATE: after the walk, Nicola Twilley assembled a wonderful picture gallery and map of pictures. Today we are working with Foodprint LA on a walking tour that will provide “an inside look at downtown LA’s cold storage infrastructure, caffeine artisans, and future food market, followed by a food map presentation over happy hour drinks. The [...]
Handing out healthy food maps at CicLAvia, October 2012
Yesterday on October 7th was the 5th CicLAvia and our team was in force. We handed out drafts of our new healthy food map, and asked people what they thought. Do you have ideas on what else should be on the map? Let us know! Here are a few pictures from the day… We setup [...]
exploratory ride for CicLAvia Southeast
This post will have unfolding details for the upcoming CicLAvia Southeast Exploratory Ride on August 26th. See the event page on Facebook for RSVP and details (meet at 10am at WLCAC, going to Lynwood Park) Check out the route via MapMyRide
from the South LA Peace, Love and Family Ride & Fair
Hosted by the Real Rydaz on July 1st, this ride began at Exposition Park, stopped by Manchester Square and Helen Keller Park. The fair continued with shout-outs to attending bike clubs, bicycle raffles, and more. To get a sense of the scale, here’s a quick video we took as the ride began after a break [...]
more map origami
Here’s a video we shot last week of some new “map origami”, demonstrated by professional bookbinder Rebecca Smyrl: Here’s the folding guide for the first map that Rebecca demonstrated: (Click on the image to enlarge. Hint: you can easily learn this by printing or drawing the lines on a sheet of paper, and using the [...]
map of South LA’s Eastside by Eric Brightwell
Here is a hand-drawn map South LA’s Eastside by Eric Brightwell, as exhibited at the 1650 Gallery yesterday (Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography). We heard about these maps from an LA Times story on Brightwell. To see the full size image, click on it: The gallery wall and book give some ideas on how hand-drawn maps [...]
