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Active Streets SGV hosts open streets event linking ‘Mission’ districts

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The public is invited to take over the streets across three San Gabriel Valley cities on Sunday, April 28, as ActiveSGV organizes a “ciclovia” open street event that will connect 5.5 miles of car-free corridors in Alhambra, San Gabriel and South Pasadena.

The free, family-friendly event — Active Streets: Mission-to-Mission — welcomes residents to walk, bike, skate, scoot, roll, and explore the three cities, each with an activity hub in their respective downtown districts with live music, artists, community organizations and games. GoSGV E-bike test ride zones will also be available in the South Pasadena and San Gabriel hubs.

Parts of Mission Street, Marengo Avenue, Alhambra Road, Main Street, Las Tunas Drive, and Mission Drive will be closed to vehicle traffic during the event, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with crossings for cars dotted throughout the route.

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Metro unveils plan for walking, bicycling or rolling to a train station or bus stop

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LA Metro laid out a plan on Tuesday to create a chain of paths, regional bikeways and pedestrian crossings to connect passengers who are walking, rolling or bicycling to and from the transit agency’s train lines, bus stops and depots.

The release of the agency’s Active Transportation Strategic Plan is the first update in seven years to a plan from 2016, but it comes with a hefty price tag, no concrete funding sources and plenty of pushback.

Metro, during a virtual public meeting Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 29, outlined three areas for improvement, identifying 602 “first and last mile” areas located near transit, 81 pedestrian districts and 1,433 miles of regional bikeways.

Just completing the list of regional bikeways, which would connect to existing ones, would cost about $36 billion, which is four times the entire LA Metro annual budget.

Metro narrowed down the ambitious plan by prioritizing all the projects by need. For example, many projects would be in areas where many people do not own cars, including mostly Black and Latino neighborhoods in L.A. County, in an effort to give potential passengers a driverless way to reach transit.

Completing just 2.5% of the projects would cost about $1.86 billion, and breaks down as follows, Metro reported:

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