The San Fernando Valley edition of the open streets festival CicLAvia was one of the organizers’ best attended, a spokesman said.
A six-mile route was cleared by shutting down streets from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. along Lankershim and Ventura boulevards in North Hollywood and Studio City.
A formal crowd figure will take several weeks to tabulate but it appeared to be around the 100,000 mark of the best-attended open streets festivals staged around Los Angeles since October 10, 2010, said CicLAvia spokesman Robert Gard.
“There were more families than we’ve seen before,” Gard said. Most were on bicycles but some participants rode scooters, walked or pushed babies in strollers.
There were no law violations resulting in arrests at the festival, he said. “We always have a couple of bumps and bruises.”
The Los Angeles Fire Department was on hand with ambulances and firefighters on bikes, said the department’s Brian Humphrey. “There was no pre- hospital loss of life or calamitous events. There were a handful of incidents of minor medical injuries or illnesses.”
The 13th edition of CicLAvia will be the first outside the city limits, Gard said. It is scheduled for May 31 in Pasadena.
CicLAvia was inspired by Ciclovia in Bogota, Columbia, a similar event aimed at getting people out of their cars and using alternative forms of transportation.
—Staff and wire reports