On Sunday, April 16, CicLAvia is back from 9 am to 4 pm with a four-mile open streets event between Mid-City and Pico Union.

CicLAvia – Mid City Meets Pico Union route for Sunday, April 16CicLAvia

The event, sponsored by Metro and Accelerate Resilience L.A., will run along Washington and Venice Boulevards, stretching from La Brea Avenue in the west to Hoover Street in the east.

In case you've forgotten how this works: only people-powered vehicles allowed. That means no electric scooters, skateboards, hoverboards, unicycles, motorcycles and other non-people-powered vehicles are permitted. However, Class 1 e-bike pedal-assist is allowed, Class 2 e-bikes are allowed when throttle is powered off, and Class 3 e-bikes are allowed when pedal-assist is powered down. 

The calendar of 2023 CicLAvia events also include:

  • May 21: New CicLAmini – Watts;
  • June 18: South LA – Vermont Ave;
  • August 20: Koreatown Meets Hollywood;
  • September 17: New CicLAmini – North Hollywood;
  • October 15: Heart of LA; and
  • December 3: South LA – Leimert Park meets Historic South Central.

Here's what we're reading this week:

The Queen MaryWikimedia Commons

Queen Mary to reopen for public tours on April 1, hotel stays to follow in May "Long Beach city officials and the Queen Mary’s new operators — Evolution Hospitality, which took over the ship’s day-to-day management last June — have been working to revitalize the vessel after it fell into massive disrepair under its previous operator, Urban Commons." (Long Beach Press-Telegram)

Mark Ridley-Thomas found guilty in corruption case "The verdict, which jurors reached in their fifth day of deliberations, marks a devastating fall for a man who for more than 30 years was a power broker in L.A. politics and a staunch advocate for civil rights and racial justice." (LA Times)

Renters Across LA County Will Lose COVID-19 Eviction Safeguards On Friday "The L.A. County Board of Supervisors recently voted to end the local COVID-19 emergency declaration on March 31. Once that state of emergency goes away, so will the county’s pandemic-era protections for non-payment of rent" (LAist)

Project area for Venice Boulevard Safety and and Mobility ProjectLADOT

Eyes on the Street: Newly Protected Venice Boulevard Bike Lane "The Venice upgrades are worthwhile. LADOT is turning much of Venice from a good place to bike into a very good biking street, and adding bus lanes at the same time. That’s worth celebrating." (Streetsblog LA)

What are California lawmakers doing to fix the housing crisis? A look at 2023’s new bills "Some of the proposals include letting religious organizations quickly build affordable homes on their excess land and lowering the cap on how much landlords can raise rents each year. Others would ask voters to add housing as a human right to the state Constitution and ease barriers homeowners face when building duplexes in their single-family neighborhoods. " (LA Times)

Heads up: Regional Connector train testing is underway — and you may see and hear some changes to trains on the A, E and L Lines (The Source)

Route of the Regional Connector subway in Downtown Los AngelesMetro

LA County Saw More People Leave Than Any Other County In The US "'90,000 is not a huge number. It’s not anything to panic about, especially given all the circumstantial problems related to the pandemic,' said Dowell Myers, professor of urban planning and demography at the Price School of Policy at USC." (LAist)

Alhambra Planning to Reconfigure its 710 Freeway Stub "The projects are intended to reduce cut-through traffic coming from the stub" (Streetsblog LA)

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