CicLAvia

Yesterday, with more fanfare and riders than the maiden ride in October of last year, CicLAvia rolled back to the streets of Los Angeles.  The route for what is fast becoming the largest car-free party in the country was the same as the 10/10/10 CicLAvia, stretching from the East Hollywood Bike District to East L.A.'s Hollenbeck Park via 7th Street and the Downtown.  Media estimated a 30% growth in participants as the number of bike riders, runners, roller bladers, dodge ballers and just walkers swelled to 130,000 people.

Alissa Walker, known as Gelato Baby on twitter and the editor of GOOD L.A. everywhere else, spotted road closure signs already on the street for this Sunday's CicLAvia.  If you're not aware, GOOD is having it's own L.A. party this weekend, including a bike ride on Saturday, and you can get all the details right here.

Generally, when we add an advertiser to the side bar, we like to take a second to introduce them to the community.  I don't think we need to introduce CicLAvia, so we waited until there was some value to the CicLAvia team to give them their welcome announcement.

Six months to the day after CicLAvia changed the way people think about Los Angeles' streets, the CicLAvia team will reopen Los Angeles' streets to cyclists, pedestrians, dodge ball players, picnickers and everyone that is willing to leave their car in park.

Mark Elliot is a photographer and urban planner (USC) who works with neighborhood organizations to build capacity in the land use arena. He's never happier than when riding canyons on a vintage Scapin or rolling the boulevards on a recommissioned Trek. Current project: bringing bike lanes to Santa Monica Boulevard.