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Today is the first Car Free Friday, a day to encourage bike commuting and hopefully convince people that the option is not that bad at all. Councilman Eric Garcetti helped the event gain media attnention by riding from the Hollywood/Western Subway station to City Hall with around sixty bicyclists. “Riding your bike on Car-Free Fridays is a great way to reduce your impact on the environment and get a work out at the same time,” Garcetti reportedly said via Damien Newton at Streetsblog LA, who give us this eco-nugget fact of love: "Riding a bicycle for just 10 miles a week can save at least $520 a year, shed calories, work to reduce California's emissions from cars and light trucks..." Car Free Fridays will continue on the last Friday of every month.
Car Free Fridays Kick Off with Eric Garcetti
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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Yay for bikes!
What about walking? That can burn even more calories, esp when you're running to catch the bus...
I live in the Hollywood Hills right above the Bowl. I would LOVE to walk to "town" but there are no sidewalks to take me there. I would look like a crazy homeless person walking on Cahuenga.
Cahuenga isn't the greatest place for cycling either with a right shoulder that is tore up, and at night there are dozens of street lights out. A friend of mine who lives near there notified Tom LaBonge's office of some of these issues since it is in his district, with no response.