Under a cloudy March sky, thousands of bicyclists rolled down Lankershim Boulevard early Sunday in the first CicLAvia car-free event to be held in the San Fernando Valley.
The increasingly popular open-street festival got started about 9 a.m. at the Metro Red Line North Hollywood station, with riders streaming down the 5.5-mile route along Lankershim and Ventura boulevards in Studio City. The event runs until 4 p.m.
It was the 12th CicLAvia event in Los Angeles since 2010. The festivals are modeled after the Ciclovia custom in Colombia, where some streets are closed to cars every Sunday.
On a side street near Lankershim, Duane LaDage unloaded his family’s bikes from his truck while his 9-year-old daughter, Caroline, waited patiently on her “purple flower power” beach cruiser. The family lives in Hollywood and doesn’t get to ride their bikes as often as they’d like, so they were excited for the opportunity to ride safely.
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