I don't have it in me right now to rewrite something for this, but I think this needs to get out, so I'm basically reposting this email I got:
Hi there!
My name is Allison Mannos and work for the LA County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC). We have a program, City of Lights that believes in the need for greater bike safety and advocacy outreach for Latino cyclists. Of course, Latino cyclists are one of the largest groups of cyclists, yet rarely are they included in the bike community, nor are their needs for safe riding education and safe streets addressed. We work specifically with day laborer cyclists in Pico-Union/Macarthur Park. I wanted to share the bike parking community resource guide I created recently. Please feel free to share with Anonymous Cyclist readers and any other community orgs/advocates you think this might benefit.
We recently created a bike parking community resource guide we'd love for you to promote (it's attached); in it, all of the research the CoL team and I have done over the past few months on how to increase bike parking racks in a meaningful quantity, as a smaller campaign stepping stone for getting bigger infrastructure in the Macarthur Park/Pico-Union neighborhood. Our hopes are that other advocates and community groups in LA will read and spread the report, as a way of empowering themselves to "blanket" their own communities with large amounts of bike parking where it is lacking.
We have been working with Reyes' Office, in negotiation with LADOT Bikeways to drop about 35-40 new locations of bike parking racks in the Macarthur Park/Pico-Union neighborhood. LADOT has finally agreed to implement the large request after their backlog is done by end of winter/early spring this year. The locations will be posted on our blog once they're installed. While the info in the guide is public info, we (and surely others) have had difficulty in assembling it all together, as far as weighing our options and the process for picking and scouting locations with community volunteers, to installing the racks. Check our blog for more info on the process: http://ciudaddeluces.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/bike-parking-campaign-in-westlakepico-union/
I believe this guide will have an important impact on creating a more accessible, empowering way for the community to improve their neighborhoods and make them more livable, especially low-income neighborhoods that may have been left behind in the city's planning process. Oh, and we have plans to translate the guide into Spanish by the end of the month!
Thanks and keep up all your good work!
Allison
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