Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Events

Park(ing) Day in North Orange County: A New, Welcome Experience

By Kristopher Fortin | Sep 19, 2016 | 1 Comment

Lynk Gibson, 7, grabbed a thick blue marker from a bin and started drawing onto a board with a footprint outline while his 4-year-old brother Nolan looked on at his side. Krystin Gibson, the boys’ mother, handed Nolan a marker and directed him where to draw. The boys gravitated toward a jenga set nearby, while staff […]

Highlights From Park(ing) Day Around the Globe

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 19, 2016 | No Comments

Today is Park(ing) Day — a day to demonstrate how scarce street space can do so much more than store parked cars. Around the world, people are setting up camp in parking spots and turning them into public spaces. Here are some of the fun and creative installations we’ve come across on social media. Just […]

The Streetsblog California Park(ing) Day Post

By Streetsblog | Sep 16, 2016 | 4 Comments

Today is Park(ing) Day, the now-ten-year-old celebration that repurposes street parking spots for people rather than cars. The concept is simple. People “take over” a parking space and use it for something other than car parking for a day, or a couple of hours, or until the meter runs out. As you would expect, Streetsblog […]

Santa Ana 5k/Ciclovia Recap: “It’s the Apocalypse Over There.”

By Kristopher Fortin | Sep 1, 2016 | 1 Comment

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

By Roger Rudick | Aug 23, 2016 | No Comments

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 […]

Open Thread: Share Your Open Streets Posters

By Damien Newton | Jul 29, 2016 | 3 Comments

With the end of the summer around the corner, LAUSD school’s re-open two weeks from Monday, there’s going to be a splash of Open Streets events throughout the state over the next couple of months. Of course I’m looking forward to the next CicLAvia, but having missed Long Beach’s event this spring, I want a […]

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