Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Open Streets

Downey Ride & Stride Open Streets Event Open Thread

By Joe Linton | May 2, 2016 | 3 Comments

The city of Downey held its first open streets festival yesterday. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Downey Ride & Stride dedicated 5.5 miles of city streets to walking, bicycling, skating, wheelchairs, and plenty of other car-free activities. Downey is one of the cities sponsored by Metro in its initial round of open streets funding. Events […]

When Are Open Streets Events Really Open Streets Events?

By Joe Linton | Apr 22, 2016 | 14 Comments

This weekend, urban walkers, cyclists, and families can gear up for two first-time open streets events: Tomorrow, Saturday, April 23, the city of Burbank hosts CiclaBurbank, billed as “a local Open-Streets event on the Burbank On Parade route while it’s still closed to motorized traffic.” The event takes place from 8:30 to 10 a.m. on […]

Santa Monica’s First Open Streets Festival Set for June 5

By Jason Islas | Mar 22, 2016 | No Comments

(There are six more open streets festivals coming up April through June 2016. See this earlier CicLAvia article for listings for Lawndale, Southeast Cities, Downey, and two San Gabriel Valley events!) Santa Monica is preparing for its first open streets event, during which a 1.7 mile route along Ocean Avenue, Main Street, and Colorado Avenue will […]

Long Beach Beach Streets II Open Thread

By Joe Linton | Mar 21, 2016 | 7 Comments

There were plenty of great firsts taking place last Saturday at Long Beach’s second iteration of its excellent Beach Streets open streets festival. It was not Long Beach’s first ciclovía; that took place nearly a year ago, in June 2015. It was the first time the city of Long Beach has held an open streets […]

Long Beach Announces Open Streets Event

By Brian Addison | Mar 5, 2015 | No Comments

Photo above from Los Angeles’s CicLAvia. Photo by Brian Addison. It’s official: Long Beach will have its first ciclovía, dubbed Beach Streets, on June 6 thanks to $260K from Metro’s Open Streets Program handed to the City of Long Beach last year. (As noted by Streetsblog, Metro has become a major sponsor for open streets events, […]