Английская Википедия:CicLAvia
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CicLAvia (Шаблон:IPAc-en) is a nonprofit, car-free streets initiative in Los Angeles, California. The organization temporarily closes streets to motor vehicles to make them accessible to vendors and the public. It runs six times a year (once every two months) on new and repeating routes.[1]
The event is completely free to the public. “Based on the Ciclovía model from Bogotá, Colombia, it’s when organizers, city and county officials close a stretch of city streets to all motorized vehicles and open up the roadway for people to bike, skate, run, stroll, ride a scooter and just enjoy the neighborhood, close up. Nothing electric is allowed except for the following: E-bikes with pedal-assist—but other e-bikes must have the throttle powered off—and motorized wheelchairs.”[2]
Upwards of 100,000 people attend individual CicLAvia events,[1] and it’s estimated that, cumulatively, more than 1.6 million people have attended them since 2010.[3]
History
The First CicLAvia
The first CicLAvia event, on October 10, 2010 opened a stretch of streets from East Hollywood through downtown Los Angeles into Boyle Heights. Over 100,000 people turned out, exceeding organizers’ expectations.[4] The event itself was inspired by Ciclovia, a similar, annual open streets event taking place in Bogota, Colombia since 1974.[5]
10-year anniversary
CicLAvia celebrated 10 years of Los Angeles events on October 10, 2021.[6] The route included DTLA and surrounding neighborhoods. The birthday event celebrated over a decade of open streets in which people could bike, skate, run, walk, skateboard, and spectate. In the event's 10-year history, there have been 35 CicLAvias, more than 1.8 million participants (averaging 53,000 participants at each event), and nearly 226 miles of open streets in L.A. County.
Route history
Over 30 subsequent CicLAvia events have taken place in communities across Los Angeles County, usually covering a 5-10 mile stretch of city streets. Some of the locations used are Pasadena,[7] South Los Angeles, Culver City,[8] Thai Town and West Hollywood.[9] In 2013, CicLAvia—To the Sea ran 15 miles from downtown Los Angeles to Venice Beach.[10]
List of CicLAvia routes
Past[11] and future CicLAvia routes:
- 2015-03-22: The Valley
- 2015-05-31: Pasadena
- 2015-08-09: Culver City Meets Venice
- 2015-10-18: Heart of LA
- 2016-03-06: The Valley
- 2016-05-15: Southeast Cities
- 2016-08-14: Iconic Wilshire Boulevard
- 2016-10-16: Heart of LA
- 2017-03-27: Culver City Meets Venice
- 2017-06–11: Glendale Meets Atwater Village
- 2017-08-13: San Pedro Meets Wilmington
- 2017-10-08: Heart of LA
- 2017-12-10: Iconic Wilshire Boulevard
- 2018-04-22: Heart of the Foothills
- 2018-06-24: The Valley
- 2018-09-30: LA Phil 100 x CicLAvia: Celebrate LA!
- 2018-12-02: Heart of LA
- 2019-03-03: Culver City Meets Mar Vista + Palms
- 2019-04-28: Wilmington
- 2019-06-30: Mid City Meets Pico-Union
- 2019-08-18: Meet the Hollywoods
- 2019-10-06: Heart of LA
- 2019-12-09: The Valley
- 2020-02-23: South LA
- 2021-08-15: Wilmington
- 2021–10-10: Heart of LA
- 2021-12-05: South LA
- 2022-07-10: South LA
- 2022-08-21: Meet the Hollywoods
- 2022-10-09: Heart of LA
- 2022-12-04: SouthLA
- 2023-02-26: CicLAvia—The Valley[12]
- 2023-04-16: CicLAvia—Mid City meets Pico Union[12]
- 2023-05-21: CicLAmini—Watts[12]
- 2023-06-18: CicLAvia—South LA (Vermont Ave.)[12]
- 2023-08-20: CicLAvia—Koreatown meets Hollywood[12] (cancelled due to weather) [13]
- 2023-09-17: CicLAmini—North Hollywood[12]
- 2023-10-15: CicLAvia—Heart of LA
- 2023-12-03: CicLAvia—South LA (Leimert Park meets Historic South Central)
- 2024-02-25: CicLAvia—Melrose[14]
- 2024-04-21: Venice Boulevard[15]
- 2024-05-19: CicLAmini—Wilmington[15]
- 2024-06-23: South L.A.[15]
- 2024-08-18: Meet the Hollywoods[15]
- 2024-09-15: CicLAmini—Lincoln Heights[15]
- 2024-10-13: Heart of L.A.[15]
- 2024-12-08: The Valley—Ventura Boulevard[15]
Event
Details
Local businesses often get involved with the event, offering deals and specials along the route to take advantage of the increase in activity. At “hubs” throughout each route, there are typically food trucks, climbing walls, arts and crafts, and other games.[16]
Partners
Los Angeles Metro provides funding to CicLAvia to support event planning, coordination, promotion, and other costs as part of a larger funding package for car-free streets.[17] Other organizations work with CicLAvia for specific events, like the LA Phil[18] and UCLA.
Impact
The goal of the nonprofit is to encourage public health, mass transit and vibrant use of public space through car-free street events.[19] In addition to fostering bicycling and walking, LA Metro staff report that CicLAvia events coincide with a 10% or greater increase in rail ridership and system-wide increases in sales of day passes.[20] RAND Corporation researchers evaluated the physical activity at a CicLAvia event, reporting that 45% of participants would have otherwise been sedentary, and recommending CicLAvia increase event frequency.[21]
A UCLA study found a reduction in local crime by 40%, as well as additional benefits for local businesses along the route, which see sales increase anywhere from 10% to 57% on event days.[22] A separate study measured the air quality impacts of a CicLAvia event in downtown Los Angeles, finding a substantial decrease in particulate matter and ultrafine particles along and near the route.[23]
The event has also renewed calls to turn the intersection and portion of Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Hollywood & Highland Center into a public plaza, similar to Times Square.[24]
See also
References
External links
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