After a two and a half year stoppage of all open street events in the San Gabriel Valley, 626 Golden Streets is set to return May 1.
The Mission to Mission route, which will open up streets to bicyclists and pedestrians for five miles, will run through South Pasadena, Alhambra and San Gabriel.
"It’s been a long two and a half years without open streets," said Wesley Reutimann, Special Programs Director at ActiveSGV, the event organizer.
This year's 626 Golden Streets event returns its 5-mile Mission to Mission route which extends from Mission Street in South Pasadena to the San Gabriel Mission in the city of San Gabriel. Image: ActiveSGVThis year's 626 Golden Streets event returns its 5-mile Mission to Mission route which starts at Mission Street in South Pasadena and ends at the San Gabriel Mission in the City of San Gabriel. Image: Active SGV
COVID concerns canceled an April 2020 626 Golden Streets: Heart of the Foothills event that was to include Pomona, San Dimas and La Verne. Heart of the Foothills will return April 2023 after qualifying for the most recent cycle of Metro Open and Slow Streets grant funding.
While the May event will follow Los Angeles County and CDC public health guidelines for COVID-19, the event will have about a third less of vendors at each hub to discourage crowding. said Reutimann. Organizers are also planning to add pop up outdoor dinning and seating in the downtown Alhambra area.
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New concepts for rapid bus service across the 626 have ironed out the questions of where an East-West route would run and where demonstrations could begin.
Metro and Caltrans eastbound 91 Freeway widening is especially alarming as it will increase tailpipe pollution in an already diesel-pollution-burdened community that is 69 percent Latino, and 28 percent Black