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City Council approves funds for CicLAvia event in Glendale
On Tuesday, the Glendale City Council approved funding the city’s first-ever CicLAvia — a large-scale, open-street event that replaces motor vehicles on about 3 miles of streets with human-powered transport such as biking, skating and walking.
City Council members gave their unanimous approval to appropriate $301,420 toward the open-street event, with $179,520 contributed by a grant from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, known as Metro. The city’s Economic Development Department will cover an additional $45,000, leaving $76,900 as the only newly allocated funds from the city.
“I’m very happy that staff has [worked on CicLAvia] and that council has...
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City Council approves funds for CicLAvia event in Glendale
On Tuesday, the Glendale City Council approved funding the city’s first-ever CicLAvia — a large-scale, open-street event that replaces motor vehicles on about 3 miles of streets with human-powered transport such as biking, skating and walking.
City...
Thousands expected to participate in CicLAvia on Sunday
Culver City meets Venice.
That is the theme of the latest CicLAvia bike festival scheduled for Sunday.
Thousands of cyclists, pedestrians, skaters and runners are expected to participate in the car-free event that will extend from downtown Culver...
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2 men, 1 woman found dead inside Sacramento home
Police in Northern California are investigating the deaths of three people found inside a Sacramento home.
The Sacramento Police Department says the two men and one woman found Saturday night sustained apparent trauma.
The bodies were found in a...
Thousands gather in downtown L.A. for CicLAvia bike festival
Thousands of cyclists, skaters and walkers are gathering in downtown Los Angeles today for the 19th CicLAvia, a recurring street festival that celebrates nonvehicular forms of transit.
Attendees are traversing a 5.75-mile car-free route that...
So much has changed in East L.A. since 1928 -- but not handball
Like a medieval fortress, the Maravilla Handball Court in East L.A. rises, improbable and imposing, above the wood-frame bungalows of its neighborhood and the stucco housing project across the street.
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Its north wall is three stories tall,...
Hundreds show up to grab a piece of L.A. history: the 6th Street Bridge
It was a spectacle that would stay with him into adulthood: two imposing arches that soared past as his father’s blue Ford Tempo whizzed down the 6th Street Bridge.
Pete Chavez made sure to peer out the rear window at those iconic structures every time...
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More and more, forward-thinking Angelenos are rethinking car culture and looking for chances to use their feet, a bicycle or public transportation to get where they need to go.
The new Metro Gold and Expo Line extensions, open-street events like CicLAvia...
Santa Monica officials seek to seize the Expo Line moment
Live updates: Metro Expo Line to Santa Monica opens
May 20, 2016, 3:16 p.m.
It has been more than six decades, but passenger rail is finally returning to the gridlocked Westside.
Metro's Expo Line extension opened today and...
CicLAvia arrives in Southeast Los Angeles
The 17th CicLAvia arrived in southeastern Los Angeles on Sunday, kicking cars and drivers off the streets to make room for several thousand bicyclists, walkers, runners and skaters.
The nonlinear, 19-mile route winds north from Watts to Huntington...
CicLAvia comes to Southeast L.A. on Sunday
In a first for Southeast Los Angeles, the popular bicycle festival known as CicLAvia will close streets to cars and open them for cyclists, walkers and skaters from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Streets in Huntington Park, Walnut Park, South Gate,...
Will Santa Monica's Expo Line get you out of your car?
Each day, about 80,000 people travel to Santa Monica for work. At the same time, about 45,000 Santa Monica residents head to jobs outside the city.
Most drive solo, often on jammed freeways.
Even the biggest public-transportation boosters acknowledge...
Published in Los Angeles Times on April 20, 2016 — Print headline: "A NEW ROUTE TO MOBILITY - Expo Line marks new train of thought in Santa Monica"
This 11-year-old wants L.A.'s streets to be safe for everyone — not just cars
On Wednesday evenings, I have orchestra class three miles from my house. I’m only 11, so I have two ways to get there. If my Mom drives me, at that time of day, in traffic, it takes 35 minutes. If I ride my bike, it takes 15 minutes.
On my ride to...
CicLAvia, the popular bike festival, returns to the San Fernando Valley
A four-mile route between Pacoima and Panorama City will be closed to traffic Sunday to make room for CicLAvia, the popular bicycle festival that has been held more than a dozen times throughout Los Angeles.
Weather permitting, thousands of people are...
On biking while black, South L.A. and car-less dating
CicLAvia staff member Tafarai Bayne, who also serves as a commissioner for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation and does his own consulting, recently hung out in Chinatown with the California section's Jason Song, talking about dating without a...
Published in Los Angeles Times on November 29, 2015 — Print headline: "On cycling while black and car-less dating - Chat & Selfie Tafarai Bayne"
Opera-on-wheels 'Hopscotch' drives home the complicated pull of downtown L.A.
Does Los Angeles need a true center, a downtown in the traditional sense? How about a reasonable facsimile of one, something just plausible enough to fool the visitors from out of town? Would that do the trick?
These questions, typically bouncing from...
Published in Los Angeles Times on November 21, 2015 — Print headline: "A window into L.A.'s complex allure - Downtown's potential and potency are front and center in mobile opera `Hopscotch.'"
Why white people marched for Black Lives Matter at CicLAvia
"What if L.A. were safe for black people?"
That might sound like a strange question to ask at a bicycle event, but for a group of demonstrators who paraded downtown in yellow shirts on Sunday, it was an appropriate one.
Nearly all of the protesters were...
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Thousands turn out for fifth anniversary celebration of CicLAvia
Thousands of cyclists, skaters and pedestrians turned out Sunday to take part in the fifth anniversary celebration of CicLAvia called the Heart of L.A.
The popular bike festival, which is held in different locations throughout the year, encourages...
CicLAvia celebrating its fifth anniversary Sunday with Heart of L.A. bike festival
More than six miles of downtown Los Angeles streets will be open Sunday to bicyclists, skaters and pedestrians as part of the fifth anniversary celebration of CicLAvia called the Heart of L.A.
The increasingly popular bike festival, which is held in...