City Lites: 9th Annual Inner City Sports Festival & Health Fair

The Event includes a 23 & 5-miles Bike Tour, 5k-Walk, 5-mile Skateboard Ride, & just added a 5-mile Wheelchair Roll, Festival & Health Pavilion. ALL 5-miles Starts at Earvin (Magic) Johnson Park @ 9am on 120th between Avalon Blvd. & Central Ave..For information: www.CityLitesNetwork.org….(ALL FREE)..Our very Own Inner City Marathron..PLEASE SUPPORT… Fighting for Health Awareness, Education & Unification..THANKS

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How About a Half Dozen CicLAvias in 2011?

By Damien Newton |
The CicLAvia team met last night to review the lessons learned from last Sunday’s amazing open street festival in Los Angeles. Apparently, the committee was as happy with the results as everyone else that attended the event because they’re hoping to program between four and six CicLAvias for 2011. One of those would mirror the […]

Also Coming Later Today: L.A.’s Bike Plan

By Damien Newton |
Excerpt from the 2009 Draft Bike Plan Via the LADOT Bike Blog comes the news cyclists and community activists have been waiting for: The Department of City Planning and LADOT will finally be releasing the final draft of the Bike Plan, a mere half a year behind schedule.  Sources at LADOT have told me to […]

11th Annual City Lites Festival

By Damien Newton |
Finally our very own Inner City Mini-Marathon, 23 & 5-mile Bike Tour, 5k-Walk, 5-mile Wheelchair Roll, 5-mile Skateboard Roll, Health Pavilion Stage, Vendor’s, Kids Zone and Stage, Main stage with Live Entertainment and a Bicycle Show. Registration Form will be available April 15th!!! Only $7…

Mayor Villaraigosa Invites Angelenos to CicLAvia

By Damien Newton |
This morning, mayor Antonio Villaraigosa held a press conference to invite the city to participate in CicLAvia, L.A.’s first open streets festival, on October 10th 2010. The mayor spoke fondly of his trips to Copenhagen and Mexico City and contrasted their bike-populated streets to those of Los Angeles. The mayor related the story that he had returned from Mexico […]