It’s Bike to Work Day Around L.A. County!
There’s a lot going on today. Check for a post closer to the event for a list of events…
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L.A. Stadium Battle, a New Front in Auto-Driven Sprawl and Transit Oriented Density
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In the ongoing war between Ed Roski and Majestic Realty versus Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) over whether the National Football League should move a team to the sprawling suburbs of the City of Industry or Downtown Los Angeles a new question has arisen: “will NFL fans ride transit to a football game?” Blogdowntown quotes a […]
CicLAvia : 100,000 Cyclists, 0 Incidents, Millions of Stories
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(This is part one of our coverage of yesterday’s groundbreaking Open Street Festival. Hopefully later today we’ll have up a Streetfilm. Tomorrow we’ll review the reviews of CicLAvia. – DN.) There’s many ways to try and talk about yesterday’s CicLAvia. One way is to look at the numbers, another to look at the people, and […]
Community Gets Ready for Sunday’s CicLAvia: “It’s Going to Be a Good Day for South L.A.”
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It was exciting, said Community Health Council’s (CHC) Andres Ramirez Huiztek, that South L.A. would finally have the opportunity to “show [people] what CicLAvia can be” this weekend. If you’ve attended a CicLAvia event before — a festival that spans and connects communities by temporarily closing the streets to cars and opening them to people […]
Streetsblog Interview: Professor Robert Gottlieb
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Robert Gottlieb is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies and Director of the Urban Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. The Institute seeks to marry education with action and thus Gottlieb and his students have become a major force for transportation reform in Los Angeles. In addition to his work on signature […]
CicLAvia South L.A. Opens Western Avenue – Open Thread
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CicLAvia's first event along South L.A.'s Western Avenue featured mayoral hopeful Karen Bass, City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, and tens of thousands participants.
King of CicLAvia: Richie Trimble’s 14.5 ft. Tall Bike!
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In addition to the 150,000 cyclists that took to Venice Blvd. on Sunday, at CicLAvia VI: CicLAvia To the Sea, the “King of CicLAvia” was crowned. The crown was not awarded by the event-creators, but by the buzz surrounding Richie Trimble’s over a hundred pound, 14.5 foot – to the seat, 17 foot – to […]