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Advocacy via Google Maps is a lovely thing. Take your neighborhood, your city, etc., document what could be improved, where incidents are happening and let the data help drive more livable streets. Today, we become savvy to a newer website called Bikewise, which documents bicycle hazards (leaving room for suggestible improvements), crashes and thefts in the Los Angeles area. Caltech student Zane A. Selvans, who runs the site, began with Pasadena is hoping others will add information about their neighborhoods, too. Related: Super awesome community organizer Andrea Ambrose continues to update her LA Neighborhood Cleanup Project Google Map on neighborhood improvements in the Silver Lake/Echo Park area.
New Google Map Catalogs Bicycle Hazards, Crashes & Thefts
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Zach,
1: Where is the link?
2: Is Bikewise only for the Bay Area?
Hey! So actually, I don't run the site. It was created by the Cascade Bicycle Club, in Seattle. I'm just advocating for people to use it in SoCal, because the City doesn't seem particularly inclined to keep track of this data for us.
As to @robostix question: the link is http://bikewise.org and the site can be used anywhere that cyclists feel like putting in data. I made a point of mapping all the hazards I encounter regularly in Pasadena, and someone going by the name of Sluggo seems to have done the same for Irvine in the last couple of days. At this point, I think southern California probably has the most entries in the database of any metro area in the US. Lets keep it that way!