Recent Streetsblog LA posts about CicLAvia

Streetsblog Reader Questionnaire: CicLAvia’s Stephen Villavaso

By Damien Newton | Jul 9, 2012 | 7 Comments

An impromptu interview with Villavaso at San Francisco Sunday Streets, March 2011 Following the announcement of the dramatically different route for CicLAvia that came over the weekend, there’s a lot to discuss. Later this week, both Kris Fortin and Sahra Sulaiman will have pieces on local reactions to the new route in Boyle Heights and […]

Changes at CicLAvia: New Route, New Dates

By Damien Newton | Jul 7, 2012 | 16 Comments

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 […]

CicLAvia Heading Deeper Through the Eastside, but When?

By Kristopher Fortin | May 2, 2012 | 3 Comments

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 […]

Beutner, Garcetti, James, Perry and Greuel on CicLAvia

By Damien Newton | Apr 18, 2012 | 8 Comments

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 […]

The Spontaneous Activities on 4th Street During CicLAvia

By Kristopher Fortin | Apr 17, 2012 | 1 Comment

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. One example came […]

Gary’s CicLAvia Journal – CicLAvia a New Experience When You Leave the Bike at Home

By Gary Kavanagh | Apr 16, 2012 | 15 Comments

(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) Having cycled CicLAvia multiple times now, and inspired by recent renewed interest in pedestrian advocacy in L.A., I decided to leave the bike at home this time. My wife Meghan […]

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