{"id":625,"date":"2018-07-27T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=71595"},"modified":"2018-07-27T09:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:05:03","slug":"beach-streets-nighttime-shoreline-dtlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/beach-streets-nighttime-shoreline-dtlb","title":{"rendered":"Beach Streets takes on the nighttime vibe with event along Long Beach’s shoreline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, Beach Streets goes twilight\u2014that’s right: The popular\u00a0ciclov\u00eda event will take over the nighttime in Long Beach as city organizers will shut down car access on Shoreline Drive from Linden Avenue on the east to Aquarium Way on the west to make room for bicyclists, pedestrians, skaters, and runners to invade the streets for their own use.<\/p>\n

Originally proposed for May in tandem with the Amgen Bike Tour, Beach Streets Twilight will now take place on Saturday, August 25 from 5 to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

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A map for the Beach Streets event along the shoreline. Courtesy of the City of Long Beach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Backlash from local restaurant owners prompted the postponement of the ciclov\u00eda earlier this year since it would run into dinnertime\u2014despite the fact that event was to coincide with the introduction of the 13 Amgen teams, their staffs, their families, and their fans, easily bringing in hundreds more to Beach Street’s first attempt at an evening event.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been wanting to do an evening Beach Streets for a while,\u201d City Manager Pat West said about the nighttime event. \u201cThe easiest and safest would be in the waterfront area, because it has the proper lighting, the space, the amenities. It would be safest there.\u201d<\/p>\n

And with Shoreline Drive it shall remain, showing off what Beach Streets (and its L.A.-based mother, CicLAvia) does best: putting on display the power of people using their bodies.<\/p>\n

The group of Beach Streets events have garnered tens of thousands of visitors\u2014Downtown’s event brought over 50,000 people<\/a> and even their smaller events, like the annual takeover of the Grand Prix track, draws in a few thousand<\/a>\u2014a testament not only to its popularity but its power.<\/p>\n

The vast majority of our public real estate is given to the individual car, a shift that took place as the automobile industry overtook mass transit, such as trains, as the main form of transportation among Americans. In this sense, we’re not used to see vast stretches of street with anything but, well, cars and traffic.<\/p>\n

A ciclov\u00eda essentially inverts a street to be used for people\u2019s feet and bikes and skateboards\u2014not cars. And when that type of act is enacted, it suddenly shows off a very tangible benefit: that our urban landscape thrives most when people are exploring it at a human scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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