It seems as though each CicLAvia is attracting more and more people to the carfree festival that connects ten neighborhoods bordering and including Downtown.  After past CicLAvia’s, we’ve asked where’s next? But as CicLAvia has become such a powerful symbol of what Los Angeles can be, the chorus calling for a local CicLAvia is growing. […]

It may be generations before the Subway reaches the Sea, but CicLAvia will head to Venice Beach this April. Last year, Streetsblog announced that CicLAvia, Los Angeles’ wildly popular car-free party modeled after Bogota’s Ciclovia, would expand from two events to three in this calendar year. Yesterday, CicLAvia executive director Aaron Paley announced the routes […]

Please note this is for the 2010 CicLAvia. For information on riding to the 04/10/2011 CicLAvia event please go to http://www.bikerowave.org. One of the highlights of this Sunday’s CicLAvia is the “MidDay Ridazz” family ride starting at the Bicycle Kitchen in East Hollywood and Hollenbeck Park on the Eastside.  What better way for Westsiders to […]

Yesterday, with more fanfare and riders than the maiden ride in October of last year, CicLAvia rolled back to the streets of Los Angeles.  The route for what is fast becoming the largest car-free party in the country was the same as the 10/10/10 CicLAvia, stretching from the East Hollywood Bike District to East L.A.’s […]

Imagine Wilshire Boulevard without cars. Rendering: CicLAvia For months, a hard-core group of volunteers have been working on a shoe-string budget to bring a series of car-free festivals to Los Angeles based on the weekly Ciclovias of Bogota, Colombia.  Thanks to a series of high profile news stories in the Times and ABC News highlighting […]