CicLAvia
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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
CicLAvia Heading Deeper Through the Eastside, but When?
For CicLAvia, figuring out how, when and where to expand has been its biggest challenge. While CicLAvia is free to attend, it costs a lot of money to push past the current 10-mile route, closing streets to cars, providing police support and re-routing car drivers who find entrences and exits from the freeway blocked. Despite CicLAvia's success, money to expand has been hard to find.
May 2, 2012
Beutner, Garcetti, James, Perry and Greuel on CicLAvia
Before CicLAvia, Streetsblog reached out to the five major declared candidates for Mayor of Los Angeles in the March 2013 elections. All five wrote responses of some sort, and they are listed below in the order in which they are received. We asked the candidates to describe their day on Sunday, but not all were in attendence at CicLAvia IV but wished to write about past experiences.
April 18, 2012
The Spontaneous Activities on 4th Street During CicLAvia
In Boyle Heights, CicLAvia is sometimes the first chance for people in the neighborhood to venture off the sidewalk and onto the streets on a bicycle, or provides local businesses an opportunity to get creative in the way they get involved in the ten and a half mile "open street" block party.
April 17, 2012
Gary’s CicLAvia Journal – CicLAvia a New Experience When You Leave the Bike at Home
(Throughout the day we'll be adding personal stories from our three regular writers who were at CicLAvia about how they spent their Sunday. - DN)
April 16, 2012
Surprise! City Announces Massive Bike Share Program Coming in December
In an announcement that caught even some CicLAvia organizers by surprise, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced this morning at the "CicLAvia opening" that CicLAvia partners Bike Nation will establish a permanent footprint in Los Angeles this December. The cost to the city will be minimal, as Bike Nation promises to pay for all of the 4,000 bikes and 400 kiosks coming to Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Venice Beach and Westwood. Bike Nation estimates it could take a full year to complete the installation.
April 15, 2012
Start Your CicLAvia in South Los Angeles!
Although it may not have its own full-fledged CicLAvia extension just yet, you can still start your day off in a celebration of South L.A.
April 13, 2012
CicLAvia: Getting Down, Changing Perspective, Seeing LA from a Different Angle
(In a wild coincidence, many of the country's top urban planners will be in town for CicLAvia this year as the American Planning Association holds their annual conference beginning this Saturday in Downtown Los Angeles. We reached out to a local planning expert, USC Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs, David Sloane. It would so happen that Sloane's newest book, Planning Los Angeles, will also be released this week. - DN)
April 11, 2012
CicLAvia Needs Your Help, Pledge Your Support on Kick Starter
The Kick Starter campaign for CicLAvia enters its last twelve hours in just a couple of moments, and they need your help. To earn any of the well over $10,000 that they have already earned through pledges, they need to raise another $1,655 by 1:50 A.M. tonight. That's how Kick Starter works, you either meet or exceed your goal or you don't get any of the pledged funds.
April 4, 2012
Riding with the Real Rydaz: Planning for a July Tour of South L.A.
Although a few state parks will close on July 1, Shuntain Thomas, the Real Rydaz, and We Are Responsible People (WARP) want you to know that the streets of South Los Angeles will be open for riding.
April 3, 2012