CICLAVIA INC
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Mission Statement
CicLAvia catalyzes vibrant public spaces, active transportation, and good health using car-free street events. CicLAvia engages with people to transform our relationship with our communities and with each other for the benefit of greater Los Angeles.
About This Cause
CicLAvia temporarily closes streets to car traffic and opens them to Angelenos to use as a public park. Free for all to participate, CicLAvia connects communities and people to each other across an expansive city, creating a safe place to bike, walk, roll, and dance through Los Angeles. On October 10, 2010, CicLAvia’s first-ever open street event saw nearly 100,000 people experiencing LA’s streets like never before. For one day, Los Angeles’ smog, car traffic, and sprawl gave way to cleaner air, people-powered mobility, and newfound connection amongst our diverse communities. CicLAvia began as a project inspired by a small group of industrious Angelenos who sought to bring a version of Bogota’s weekly 40 mile ciclovia to Los Angeles. 12 years and 41 events later, the spark from Bogota’s inspiration has become a beloved Los Angeles institution. One that has captured the imagination of more than 1.8 million people traveling together along more than 250 miles of streets, across 65 Los Angeles neighborhoods and 10 neighboring cities - including some of the region’s historically underserved communities of Watts, South LA, Pacoima, Boyle Heights, East LA, Westlake, Pico-Union, Chinatown, and the Southeast Cities. Every CicLAvia experience leaves you with a deeper understanding of who we are, where we live, where we shop, where we work, where we play, and how we connect with each other. To ensure access, every CicLAvia open street event is completely free and open to all. CicLAvia participants mirror LA County’s incredibly diverse demographics. The attendees are nearly evenly divided between men and women with the majority being 30-49 years old and the remainder almost evenly distributed between 18-29 and 50+ years old. 38% identify as White, 38% as Latino, 14% Asian American and 7% African American. Today, CicLAvia’s vision is to create a world where all feel joy and belonging through safe, people-centered, and community-oriented streets. To that end, CicLAvia is helping shape a new narrative for a stronger Los Angeles – one that builds a powerful sense of community, fosters deeper civic engagement, embraces active transportation, and promotes healthy lifestyles to improve the quality of life in Los Angeles for all. In recent years, significant public health, local economic development, and active transportation benefits have been measured as a function of CicLAvia. CicLAvia has become a recognized leader in the global open streets movement and is having an impact on policy and infrastructure development in Los Angeles. When CicLAvia began in 2010, there was only a 137 mile network of bike lanes in Los Angeles. That has grown to 890.5 miles in 2022. In 2015, the City of Los Angeles developed the far-reaching Mobility Plan 2035, that included an acknowledgement of CicLAvia’s influence on increasing interest and awareness of alternative modes of transportation necessary to create a more livable and sustainable Los Angeles. Now into our second decade, CicLAvia continues to show there is a strong appetite among Southern California residents for active, multi-modal transportation; civic engagement opportunities like accessible voter registration and time to connect with local elected officials and neighborhood councils; and rich arts and cultural programming from partners like LA Phil, LACMA and smaller community arts organizations. “CicLAvia has a superpower. It helps us reimagine our streets as vast public spaces. It helps us imagine what the future can be like.” - Megan Sahli-Wells, former Culver City Vice Mayor CicLAvia is a 501(c)3