Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Ciclovía

L.A.’s CicLAvia Announces Expanded Route for October

By Damien Newton | Aug 16, 2011

By the early afternoon of April 10, it was clear that CicLAvia had outgrown its original seven-and-a-half mile route. In the urban core of Downtown Los Angeles, bikes were packed so thick on the road that entire groups wouldn’t make it through traffic signals and other road users were intimidated from using the street. Something […]

A Growing Living Streets Community Emerges in Redding, California

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 29, 2011 | 10 Comments

Redding, California, with a population of 90,000, is probably best known for its sunshine, breathtaking landscapes and conservative politics. Located 200 miles north of Sacramento in Shasta County, the lush region surrounded by the Trinity and Cascade mountains offers an abundance of recreation, including a growing number of paved multi-use trails that draw large crowds […]

More Cities to Join San Mateo County’s “Streets Alive” This Year

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 22, 2011 | 3 Comments

San Mateo County’s first Streets Alive event may have had bad luck with the weather last April, but many Peninsula cities are eager to get another shot at celebrating car-free streets with an even bigger event in 2011. “Even though it was rained out, it was pretty popular with residents,” said Eric Pawlowsky, an aide to San […]

Peru’s Traffic Menagerie

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

Our daily urban lives shape our imaginations in so many ways. Few things box us in like our everyday transit options, and the patterns of traffic that shape our sense of public space. These patterns themselves are historical of course. A quick look back at the famous Market Street film shot a few days before […]

Ecology of Biking in Quito, Ecuador

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 7, 2011 | 6 Comments

I just spent a few days in Quito, Ecuador, a remarkably beautiful city of a couple million sprawling 40 kilometers north-to-south through a series of valleys and plateaus in the Andes, surrounded by snow-capped volcanoes and rugged green mountains. I interviewed Heleana Zambonino from Quito for Streetsblog a while back, and wanted to see for […]

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

By Damien Newton | Oct 11, 2010

The numbers for yesterday’s CicLAvia are impressive. KABC News says that there were 50,000 people riding the streets of Los Angeles along a 7.5 mile stretch of streets that were open to public use, but closed to automobiles. The Los Angeles Times puts that number closer to 100,00 people. Anecdotally, the Coke truck ran out […]

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