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Extend Your Hours of Cyclo-topia: Start CicLAvia in South L.A.
Just one week after Angelenos proved they could happily bike and walk their way through Carmageddon, they get to put their freshly honed skills to the test at the nation's biggest car-free festival.
October 4, 2012
Thinking of Walking CicLAvia? Think of Joining the Figueroa Street Parade
While pretty much everyone loves CicLAvia, coming back to Los Angeles' streets this Sunday, there has been one complaint that keeps popping up. The event is just too popular. There is such a latent demand to safely explore the city on bicycle, that over 100,000 bikes crowd the streets, making other CicLAvia events, such as just taking a walk on the open street, more difficult than they should be.
October 2, 2012
CicLAvia South East: Building a Movement Ride by Ride
"Oh yeah, I just saw maybe 50 or 60 riders go by. Yeah, it was pretty cool." said a security guard at Plaza Mexico.
August 27, 2012
South L.A. Calendar: Urban Farming, a CicLAvia Southeast Event, Community Coalition’s Power Festival, and a Neighborhood Bike Ambassador Meeting
Over the next week, you've got four opportunities to participate in promoting more livable streets in South L.A.
August 23, 2012
Planning Begins For A Westside CicLAvia
This Tuesday, CicLAvia hosted a workshop in Santa Monica at the Civic Center led by Aaron Paley to discuss a possible Westside route for the event. Paley explained that next year the organization is looking to expand the number of CicLAvia events, and feature new areas of the Los Angeles region. The Westside is one of several new locales under consideration such as Pomona, South L.A. and others.
August 17, 2012
CicLAvia’s Villavaso Responds to Your Questions: NELA CicLAvia? Why South Fig? How Much Does CicLAvia Cost?
Following the announcement of CicLAvia's new route for the 10/7/12 CicLAvia, Stephen Villavaso, a transportation engineer and member of the CicLAvia Steering Committee, volunteered to answer any reader questions. While he answered some directly in the comments, we're presenting all of the questions with his answers below.
July 17, 2012
CicLAvia’s Boyle Heights extension: Hollenbeck Hub Cut, Soto Street Station New End Point, Flyer Issues
In the upcoming CicLAvia on October 7, the Boyle Heights route finally moved up to Mariachi Plaza, and goes down 1st Street to Soto Street. This is the first change to the Boyle Heights route since the car-free event started in 2010.
July 13, 2012
Streetsblog Reader Questionnaire: CicLAvia’s Stephen Villavaso
An impromptu interview with Villavaso at San Francisco Sunday Streets, March 2011
July 9, 2012
Changes at CicLAvia: New Route, New Dates
Change is in the air for CicLAvia, the gigantic car-free party that has changed the way Angelenos think about their streets. First, the date for this October's CicLAvia V has been moved forward from the original date of October 14 to October 7. With the city planning to bring a space ship through the streets on the weekend of October 14, CicLAvia obliged the city and space fans by agreeing to move this event to October 7. The streets will open to bicyclists, pedestrians and all non-motorized road users at 10 am and remain open until 3 pm on the 7th. Details of the spaceship's parade route have yet to be announced.
July 7, 2012