Get your bikes ready! CicLAvia This Sunday!

Hey LA-people, you’ve all heard about CicLAavia, right?

Twice a year, on a Spring of Fall Sun­day, almost 10 miles of LA streets are closed to cars. These events bring fam­i­lies out­side of their homes to enjoy the streets.  Most of them ride their bikes but even just walk­ing is peace­ful with­out the noise, smell and stress of cars around you.  I wrote a bit more about it here, with pic­tures and some video.

Changes to the Octo­ber 2012 Route

The core of CicLAvia has always been in down­town at 7^th and Spring, but for this year ALL of the route’s “arms” have changed.

Here’s the route (you may click on it to see a larger ver­sion that will open in a new window):

• The west part of it used to start at Melrose/Heliotrope in East Hol­ly­wood but now it’s much fur­ther away from Hol­ly­wood.  There is now a new route that con­nects to the Expo line , at Expo­si­tion which totally makes sense because that Expo line goes 8 miles west all the way to Cul­ver City, mak­ing it very easy for peo­ple from the West­side of LA to join the fun.  It will prob­a­bly attract tons of USC stu­dents as well.
• Instead of end­ing at Hol­len­beck Park in East LA, the east­ern most point is the Soto Sta­tion on the Gold Line.

In short, the new route is more of a “north-south” route with arms going east and west instead of the reverse.

One of the com­mit­tee mem­bers for Ciclavia, Aaron Paley, explains the changes…

I per­son­ally hope to bring the ++music trailer out there this year, and then go to play on the Santa Mon­ica Rings until Magic Hour.  See you around!

Related posts:

1. The Magic of CicLAvia
2. A typ­i­cal Sun­day at the Santa Mon­ica Rings, an adults play­ground (Video and Pictures)
3. The LA coast­line under a full moon from a restau­rant in Malibu
4. Intro­duc­ing The New Expo Line and Orange Line Extension
5. Watch the 2012 Tour De France Live Stream (for free)