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CicLAvia To Take Over Wilshire On Sunday

Colin Hale |
June 22, 2013 | 4:27 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

An earlier CicLAvia event in 2013/via @gabeincognito
An earlier CicLAvia event in 2013/via @gabeincognito
The history and architecture of Wilshire Boulevard will be on display Sunday during the seventh edition of CicLAvia, the bicycle and pedestrian event that has been wildly popular in Los Angeles since it started in 2010.

Sunday's route along Wilshire Boulevard will begin at Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles and stretch west to Fairfax Avenue.  

The route will pass historic points of interest like MacArthur Park, Lafayette Park, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Southwestern Law School (which is in the iconic former Bullocks Wilshire building), the former site of the Ambassador Hotel, and the La Brea Tar Pits.

At either end of the route, pedestrian-only zones will allow for exercise, pilates, and other events.

The 6.3-mile route will be closed to cars between 9:00AM and 4:00PM, the longest a street has been closed for the CicLAvia event, according to the Los Angeles Times.

All CicLAvia events are free to the public and are funded by the City of Los Angeles as well as the CicLAvia non-profit organization and private donors.

Organizers of the event have called this their "dream CicLAvia," and are encouraging participants to use Metro Rail, Metrolink, and public transportation to get to the event, but to avoid the Wilshire/Vermont Station on the Metro purple line due to the station's escalators not allowing bicycles.

CicLAvia is based on Bogota, Colombia's "Ciclovia" events, which began thirty years ago to address pollution issues and build community cohesion and spirit.  Other cities in Colombia and around the world have organized similar "bicycle-only" events.

A complete map of the route, including car crossing points, can be found on CicLAvia's website.

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