>> Walking in Beverly Hills. NetWalks & Co | Troop 90210 invites everyone who works, lives, or plays in Beverly Hills to join its weekly morning walks. Meet up every Wednesday morning at 7:30 am at the fountain at Santa Monica and Wilshire for a brisk 1-hour walk. Earlier: Discover One Mile Radius living.
>> Running in Los Angeles. The L.A. Marathon’s sold out for the first time in its 25-year history! I ran it in 2005 — and may again in 2015. Will you be running the marathon this year?
>> Making pedestrian life pretty.An iPhone app called CitySourced lets you quickly report potholes and graffiti. Just snap a photo, tag it with a GPS location, and send the info to the city. Currently in San Jose, the L.A. version’s hoped to launch later this month. The bad news is that the city plans to fill 80,000 fewer potholes this year, due to budget shortages.
The City of Santa Monica just started something much like this. It’s a IPhone app to report many sorts of problems, including potholes.
Get the app at the iPhone App Store by searching for GOReques. A pix is worth a thousand words… From the bike perspective, it’s all those potholes that make getting around so hard on the bike.
This is run by a subcontractor and only works on IPhone. The lesser cell phones can call street problems in, in my experience The City of Santa Moinca is pretty responsive. For example: now the stop light signals in SM (usually) “see” a bike…
EricW
Comment by Eric Weinstein — March 15, 2010 @ 2:37 pm
That’s great that there is an iPhone app for reporting problems. I am curious if there already is a person or section of the cities that are supposed to be doing this themselves?
Comment by Brandon Lee — March 16, 2010 @ 5:29 pm
Damn — You guys are really making me wish I had an iPhone….
Comment by Siel — April 14, 2010 @ 10:18 pm