Recent Streetsblog LA posts about CicLAvia

How About a Half Dozen CicLAvias in 2011?

By Damien Newton | Oct 15, 2010 | 29 Comments

The CicLAvia team met last night to review the lessons learned from last Sunday’s amazing open street festival in Los Angeles. Apparently, the committee was as happy with the results as everyone else that attended the event because they’re hoping to program between four and six CicLAvias for 2011. One of those would mirror the […]

Rediscovering Our City and Ourselves: Why CicLAvia Matters

By Mark Elliot | Oct 13, 2010 | 6 Comments

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. Where were you this past […]

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CicLAvia: Let’s Go!

By Damien Newton | Oct 12, 2010 | No Comments

For Angelenos, Sunday was a day that we’ll never forget. Our first Open Streets party was an unparalleled success. So much so that even the critics of the concept grudgingly came on board when it was obvious that they missed the boat on supporting and experiencing a groundbreaking day. The Los Angeles Times estimates that […]

CicLAvia : 100,000 Cyclists, 0 Incidents, Millions of Stories

By Damien Newton | Oct 11, 2010 | 62 Comments

(This is part one of our coverage of yesterday’s groundbreaking Open Street Festival. Hopefully later today we’ll have up a Streetfilm. Tomorrow we’ll review the reviews of CicLAvia. – DN.) There’s many ways to try and talk about yesterday’s CicLAvia. One way is to look at the numbers, another to look at the people, and […]

Your One Stop CicLAvia Activity Planner

By Joe Linton and Damien Newton | Oct 8, 2010 | 7 Comments

Well, it’s finally here. Sunday is CicLAvia! Most people that read Streetsblog regularly already know how to have fun in the streets, as evidenced above. That makes it contingent on us to welcome anyone who appears to be playing in the street for the first time. Joe Linton helpfully provides some links to activities happening […]

CicLAvia Film Week: Under Sadik-Khan, New York Gets “Summer Streets”

By Damien Newton | Oct 6, 2010 | No Comments

August of 2008. It seems so long ago. Two L.A. Streetsblog stories attracted more than ten comments. One was on a protest of the SMPD’s over policing of Critical Mass by blocking intersections in Santa Monica by crossing the street over and over. The other was on Metro’s efforts to improve bike/bus relations. Meanwhile in […]

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