CicLAvia 20: Culver City Meets Venice, Open Thread
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Woo! Hoooo! Another popular CicLAvia open streets event opened streets from Venice to Mar Vista yesterday!
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Garden Grove Open Streets Event Returns for Third Year on April 1
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Garden Grove's third Open Streets route on April 1 will have a mix of car-free streets, pop-up protected bike lanes, designated walking paths and a pop-up neighborhood greenway.
Eyes on the Street: Sunshine for First San Francisco Sunday Streets of 2017
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After a long, wet winter, it was good to get out and enjoy a sunny, warm day in San Francisco. Thousands of people strolled, biked, skate boarded, and just generally had a good time on Valencia Street in the Mission during the first Sunday Streets of 2017.
DamienTalksSGV 29 – Sunday’s 626 Golden Streets Was 17 Miles of Car-Free Heaven
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To call the 626, the San Gabriel Valley's mammoth open streets event, a success would be an understatement. Even with the rain, the event attracted roughly 100,000 participants. They biked, jogged, walked, or rolled the seventeen miles of car-free streets along a route that was roughly parallel to the Gold Line Foothill Extension that opened last year.
Santa Ana 5k/Ciclovia Recap: “It’s the Apocalypse Over There.”
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I dreaded writing this story. For four hours on August 20, Santa Ana opened its downtown streets for bicyclists and pedestrians. Yet it was more ghost town than open street. This is the first year Santa Ana’s Ciclovia was combined with its annual 5K. The last two years, the Ciclovia was called Sunday On Main […]
Eyes on the Street: Sunday Streets in the Mission
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Normally, Valencia Street in the Mission is dominated by traffic, double-parked cars blocking bike lanes, close calls, and the occasional injury. But not yesterday; yesterday, Valencia Street was all about games, fun and dancing–and a bit of politics and social advocacy–thanks to Sunday Streets. Yesterday’s event, the second Mission District event this year, went from […]