Today was the 6th Anniversary CicLAvia event (first was 10/10/10!!), once again in downtown LA. I don't know what else to say besides it's still awesome, it's still great to see so many people out (although, I feel like after so many events, especially some that have repeated so many times, it would be really nice to have more miles of streets shut down!) Some of the novelty has worn off, but there's something to be said about it feeling.... normal. CicLAvia should feel normal.
As for me, I did the route and hung around for a few hours and then went off for different adventures....
The start of the mystery writing... it was so faint in the street outside MacArthur Park and I couldn't figure out if it was a case of "let's cover up the graffiti with a slightly off color so the original message is less visible, but still visible" or what.... clearly, there was a message about CO2 there.
at this point, I knew this writing was being created for the event....
aannnnnddd here we have the source of the writing! I ended up talking to the guy riding the bike right in front of the fire engine w/ blue shirt & a hat on. There was a water tank on a trailer on the back of his bike and it had a mechism attached that would squirt out a mist of water in measured ways to write temporary messages as he was biking.
this guy had a box of doughnuts on his back??
There was a large amount of political things going on at this CicLAvia in particular, which wasn't surprising given the closeby election... I like that CicLAvia is a place where people feel comfortable doing things like this!
at the Los Angeles Theater
box office at the Los Angeles theater on Broadway
pretty sure I've shot this photo many times before... I think with my Diana
desserts to pretty to eat (although, if you do go for these, I suspect they are sold as aphrodisiacs.....)
....and this is where I deviate from the CicLAvia path!
oh Los Angeles... you still have so much to learn and improve despite all these CicLAvias... even on something like this bike lane on Venice with a huge buffer, there's no sidewalk on the street????
With CicLAvia up this weekend (6th anniversery of this awesomeness!!!!), it's time for me to pull up some photos from past events! This group is from the SouthEast cities CicLAvia this past May.
Today was yet another installment in CicLAvia - this time a 3.5 mile segment of Wilshire. I was a little unsure about going, but ended up leaving my place a little after 8 to get there a bit before the official event started. For the most part, it was fine, although there was a run from earlier still finishing up. Because I both had a bunch of stuff to do (See: Burning Man) and it was hot, I ended up doing the whole route 2 times, plus a little more before heading out. This was definitely one of my shorter CicLAvia visits at a bit over 2 hours, but I'm glad I could still visit for a bit!!
I tried to not take many pictures, which to other still probably looks like tons of photos. What can I say though, I love CicLAvia! At one point I was talking to a CicLAvia volunteer who asked "How's your day going?" to which I had to reply "I'm at CicLAvia, of course it's great!"
this was when I first passed the rack around 9am... by the last time I passed it at 11ish, it was nearly empty. The downside was that I had more than one near incident with people on these bikes... I suspect some people on them were pretty inexperienced...
Today was the 6th Anniversary CicLAvia event (first was 10/10/10!!), once again in downtown LA. I don't know what else to say besides it's still awesome, it's still great to see so many people out (although, I feel like after so many events, especially some that have repeated so many times, it would be really nice to have more miles of streets shut down!) Some of the novelty has worn off, but there's something to be said about it feeling.... normal. CicLAvia should feel normal.
