Los Angeles Like You've Never Seen It Before

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A few months ago, I wrote in awe of Madison, Wisconsin. With a little help from local advocates, the city hosted an open streets event that closed off popular roads to cars and drew 50,000 cyclists and pedestrians to fill the space with a community-building celebration of active transportation.

Well, I hadn’t seen nothing yet.

Yesterday, Los Angeles hosted it’s first open streets event of 2011 and hundreds of thousands of folks showed up to pedal and play on the liberated pavement. Unfortunately, I wasn’t there to partake of the festivities — but my boss, Jeff Miller, president of the Alliance for Biking & Walking, sent me a report from the road. Yep, that’s him posing with Lance Armstrong. But, as he outlines below, the beauty of the event was the mainstream majority.

Here’s what he said…

“For more than six hours I soaked up as much as I could: the sun, the

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