Bike racks added to Big Blue Buses
Lightweight bicycle racks are being placed at the front of Big
Blue Buses.
“With many of our bus routes traveling within blocks of
the beach bike path and miles of dedicated bike lanes, the bike
racks are an amenity that has been anxiously awaited,” said
Ralph Merced, Big Blue Bus maintenance manager.
Buses with bike racks will be able to carry two bikes each.
According to Sportsworks, the manufacturer of the bike rack, bikes
can be loaded and unloaded in 15 seconds.
The addition of bike racks is part of an overall plan to make
Santa Monica a bike-friendly city. The city has 38 miles of bike
trails, lanes and routes. The city is constructing new bike parking
and is creating maps of bike routes.
Senior Fellows named to school
The UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research has chosen
the 2001-02 Class of Senior Fellows ““ a group of policy
leaders who are brought to campus to share ideas, deliver policy
briefings on current issues, serve as guest lecturers and meet
informally with students and faculty.
Among the chosen are Antonio Villaraigosa, former speaker of the
California Assembly; Ambassador Martha Lara, consul general of
Mexico in Los Angeles; Susan Golding, former mayor of San Diego;
and syndicated editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad.
Each Senior Fellow will mentor one or more students in the
Public Policy and Social Research School.
New center in eye institute
The Jules Stein Eye Institute has plans to create the Edie and
Lew Wasserman Eye Research Center.
The 100,000 square-foot center will be the third building in the
institute complex.
“The Edie and Lew Wasserman Eye Center will have an
enormous impact on the institute,” said Bartly Mondino,
director of the Jules Stein Eye Institute.
Code for hearing, speech impaired
A new nationwide dialing code ““Â 711 ““ will make
it easier for the speech and hearing impaired to place and receive
telephone calls.
Previously, speech and hearing impaired callers used any of 100
seven to 10 digit access codes to make calls. The new code enables
Telecommunications Relay Services to facilitate calls in several
ways, including text-to-speech and speech-to-text translation.
The Federal Communications Commission is requiring all U.S.
telecommunications carriers to offer 711 access from wireline,
wireless and pay phones.
Reports from Daily Bruin staff and wire services.