{"id":1692,"date":"2011-02-25T23:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T06:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2011-02-25T23:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T06:09:28","slug":"mountain-bike-component-of-la-bike-plan-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2011\/02\/25\/mountain-bike-component-of-la-bike-plan-in-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bike Component of LA Bike Plan In Jeopardy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone interested in riding their bicycle off-pavement in any Los Angeles City Park needs to be at the Los Angeles City Council Meeting this Tuesday March 1.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources close to the City Council, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the mountain bike feasibility study is about to get stripped out of the bike plan.<\/span> City Council member Tom LaBonge wants to introduce last minute motion to send the Bicycle Plan back to the Transportation Committee for &#8220;revision&#8221; (read removal?) before passing the plan by full council.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t attend the meeting then we encourage you to call La Bonge\u2019s office at (213) 485-3337 or email at councilmember.labonge@lacity.org to share your opinion on LA Bike Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Also make sure to let your city Councilperson know too. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This is your city! This is your community! Get involved or lose opportunities to ride dirt in LA<\/span>.<a href=\" http:\/\/www.lacity.org\/YourGovernment\/CityCouncil\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Click here to find your City Councilperson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are few talking points:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Mountain bicyclists have participated in good faith in the entire planning process.<br \/>\n2\u00a0\u00a0 The draft plan requires the city to &#8220;analyze and explore\u00a0 opportunities for additional off-road bicycle facilities.&#8221;<br \/>\n3.\u00a0 It requires the city to look at the experience and practices of other cities and of neighboring open space land managers.<br \/>\n4.\u00a0 It requires an inventory of city dirt roads and trails.<br \/>\n5.\u00a0 It calls on the city to &#8220;evaluate and address multiple user groups&#8217; needs in the City&#8217;s limited public park land.&#8221;<br \/>\n6.\u00a0 Mountain biking is a safe, sustainable, health promoting activity.<br \/>\n7.\u00a0 Among the three purposes of the bike plan are:\u00a0 Increase the number and type of bicyclists in the city and Make the City of Los Angeles a Bike Friendly community.\u00a0 The studies of mountain biking on trails are totally appropriate with those goals.<br \/>\n8.\u00a0 To pull this language now is unwarranted.<br \/>\n9.\u00a0 The plan has been vetted.\u00a0 The time to pass it as drafted is NOW.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone interested in riding their bicycle off-pavement in any Los Angeles City Park needs to be at the Los Angeles City Council Meeting this Tuesday March 1. According to sources close to the City Council, the mountain bike feasibility study is about to get stripped out of the bike plan. City Council member Tom LaBonge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,29,9,16],"tags":[93,99,109,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}