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CicLAvia in Boyle Heights: Mariachi Plaza is a Party, Soto Street is a Snooze, Cars Get Towed on Boyle Avenue
Passersby on the CicLAvia Eastside route on Sunday could have gone away seeing either a vibrant party, a vacant corridor, or both. But what passersby wouldn’t have seen were the automobiles towed during the road closures for the car-free event.
October 9, 2012
Why, oh, Why Doesn’t Long Beach Have a Ciclovía?
Following the success of this past weekend's CicLAvia, with some 100,000 bikers, skaters, and walkers invading the streets of Los Angeles, the only question down south became: why, oh, why doesn't Long Beach have a ciclovía?
October 9, 2012
CicLAvia Successfully Rides Again
They don't look like they're on their way to church, I thought as I eyed up the handful of serious-looking young men lined up outside a corner liquor store.
October 8, 2012
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