Green lane envy, misplaced

A recent L.A. Times article on the green tone required for painted bike lanes was off in a world of photographic speculation, I guess. At issue, according to the journalist, is the color of green mandated by federal transportation and that it cannot easily be digitally erased from images. The writer focuses on "the color" itself, without realizing the issue is whether the color is evenly toned. Wheel marks, subtleties of light and shadow, and other factors make digital scrubbing difficult. Not the particular shade of green.

Gym commute day 01—there and back

Monday, 28 November 2011

Today was a trial run for getting to World Gym at Sunrise and Vista Chino. I thought my way could be pretty direct and without much traffic, and I found that to be true on my return home. Each direction took the same time, about 16 minutes

On my way to the gym, I first headed north on El Cielo, which is the usual direction by car. I turned west on Baristo and then took Cerritos and intervening curved streets always in a north-bound path. Finally at Tacheva I had no choice but to cut over to Sunrise, where I found a bikeway that runs parallel to the sidewalk—though it was a swerving expanse that goes all the way to Vista Chino.

The return trip was straightforward: Sunrise south to the Desert Chapel at Warm Sands, and then east along the golf courses to home.

Ride conditions
Temperature: 59 to 73°F at 08:45 and 10:45
Precipitation: none
Winds: calm 
Clothing: Skinsuit, open-finger gloves
Bike: Trek 3700 off-road bike
Time: 00:32:05 for 7.19 miles
Heart rate: 125 bpm HRave, 144 bpm HRmax
Playback of the ride

End to bike lanes in Brooklyn?

A New York City neighborhood requested the end to bike lanes that Mayor Bloomberg's administration had installed. This wealthy neighborhood of Brooklyn has waged a year of dueling petitions, pamphlets and rallies over a bike path installed by the city last summer along Prospect Park West. The Bloomberg administration’s campaign to remake the city’s streets doesn't meet objections everywhere, though. A City Council member whose district overlaps part of the lane conducted a survey and found that more than 70 percent of residents in Park Slope, Brooklyn, supported the lane. In another poll, only about half of the residents on Prospect Park West were in favor.

I haven't seen the Brooklyn bike lanes, but I bet they're not like the single-track in this video.