CicLAvia: L.A. streets become paths Sunday, with help from O.C. woman
CicLAvia: L.A. streets become paths Sunday, with help from O.C. woman
- April 16, 2012
- Adonia Lugo, anthropology graduate student, is featured in the OC Register April 13, 2012
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From the OC Register:
It was two years ago when the city of Los Angeles first shut down seven miles of
pavement to make way for pedestrians and bicyclists – a move that challenged the conventional
Southern California notion that the car rules the road. Now, the open-streets event
known as CicLAvia has expanded to 10 miles, and for co-founder and Orange County native
Adonia Lugo, the occasion proves that people seek to experience L.A. in a different
way. On Sunday, the fourth CicLAvia begins at 10 a.m. and spans from Melrose to Boyle
Heights. "I had a hunch that people would embrace the event once we made it happen.
It's so much fun to walk and bike in city streets, it gives you a different sense
of scale than you get when you're driving," said Lugo, 28, a doctoral candidate in
anthropology at UC Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://www.ocregister.com/news/lugo-349125-streets-people.html#
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