#arroyofest

commemorating the time the 110 was closed to cars for the first time in 20 years coincided with me getting emergency surgery the night before

Nobody Drives in LA — Los Angeles’s Open Streets

For decades since the introduction of the automobile to Los Angeles, the trend was to accommodate them more and more. Sidewalks were shaved away to all for more cars. Beautiful historic buildings were leveled and replace with surface parking lots. Interstate freeways were allowed not just to connect states but to slice through working class neighborhoods — and then widened and widened and widened…