EDGEFEST AND BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL RIDE
" Voices From ChOrnobyl"
June 30th, 11:30 am

It's going to be a busy weekend with the EdgeFest and the The Bicycle Film Festival and the HelMel Block Party at the Bicycle Kitchen.

The Bicycle Film Festival is this week from June 28th through July 1st in Hollywood at the Vine Theatre.

The EdgeFest is on June 30th from 12 noon to 12 midnight in Downtown L.A. at the Regent Theatre.

The HelMel Block Party is on July 1st from 12 noon to 8 pm at Heliotrope Drive at Melrose Avenue in East Hollywood.

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OWNING THE ROAD RULES
Sane biking in a car-crazy world
By Julye Hannus - May/June 2007 - Utne Reader

There are so many reasons to ride a bike, the roads should be swarming with cyclists enjoying cheap, sustainable, healthy transportation. There's just that one hitch: Riding in traffic is intimidating. "In [the United States] it seems cycling anywhere except in parks is dangerous," observes the Vancouver-based Momentum magazine (Feb./March 2007), which also notes that compared to Canada, England, and a slew of European countries, the United States spends the least per capita on cycling infrastructure. And has the highest rate of injuries to riders.

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EdgeFest
June 30th, Noon to Midnight

EdgeFest produces the Edge of the World Theater Festival, an annual showcase for the work of Los Angeles-based theater artists and the Los Angeles History Project and the Los Angeles Future Project, which commission new works about Los Angeles history and for young audiences, respectively.

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TRANSIT EXPERT: CAST OUT AUTOS
Cutting traffic brings happiness, former Bogota mayor tells gathering
By Eric N. Nelson - May 31, 2007 - Inside Bay Area

OAKLAND — With the fervor of a preacher inciting his fallen flock to turn away from their addictions, Enrique Penalosa told a crowd of adoring alternative transportation advocates Wednesday at Oakland City Hall that shunning their cars and SUVs could bring happiness to East Bay cities.

Continuing to cater to our dependence by building more highways and allowing cheap and easy parking would lead to more traffic, more misery and cities that few people would want to live, work or play in, said Penalosa, who served three years as mayor of Bogota, Colombia, and now proselytizes for the way of the foot, bike and wheelchair.

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BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL 2007

The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle. We are into all styles of bikes and biking. If you can name it-Tall Bike Jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Cycling to Recumbents- we've probably either ridden or screened it. What better way to celebrate these lifestyles than through art, film, music and performance?

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CARS AND BICYCLES SHOULDN'T COMPETE
By Gordon Dillow -OC Register

I was driving along an open stretch of Pacific Coast Highway the other day, at or just under the posted speed limit of 50 mph, and every hundred yards or so I was passing groups of two or three or a dozen bicyclists pedaling along in the bike lane. And that's when it occurred to me:

I don't want to share the road. More specifically, I don't want to share a high-speed road with bicycle riders – not because it's that big of a problem for me, but because it's too dangerous for them.

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