LOS ANGELES (CNS) – More than 20,000 individuals participated in the most recent CicLAvia, which cleared 5 miles of street in South Los Angeles to automobile to give way for pedestrians, bicyclists, skaters and a skateboarding grandma.
“CicLAvia: South Los Angeles” linked the areas of South Central, Exposition Park, Leimert Park and Crenshaw, including Crenshaw Boulevard in between Exposition and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards to Central Avenue.
Sixty-eight-year-old grandma Swee Woo has actually ridden her longboard skateboard at almost all of the CicLAvia occasions and is constantly a crowd-pleaser, organizers stated.
Sumalee Montano tweeted “The Open Streets of @CicLAvia constantly make me value and enjoy LA a lot more!”
A tweet from joyluvphotography read, “Thanks for doing this. Especially in my area. We do not get enjoyable things like this bcuz individuals are terrified however we truly are a neighborhood in South LA & were attempting.”
Some 500 COVID-19 vaccines were likewise offered at the occasion, organizers stated.
CicLAvia authorities state more than 1.6 million individuals have actually participated in the occasions throughout the years.
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