{"id":23998,"date":"2017-03-03T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T00:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23998"},"modified":"2017-03-03T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T01:19:58","slug":"open-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/open-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Open Streets Movement Sizzling or Fizzling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/streez.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On March 5, 2017 Los Angeles Metro hosts 626 Golden Streets, billed as the\u00a0biggest Open Streets event ever to be held in North America. The public is invited to explore 17+ miles of car-free streets along\u00a0Metro&#8217;s\u00a0recently expanded\u00a0Gold Line in parts of\u00a0San Gabriel Valley\u00a0northeast of Los Angeles (in the 626 area code.) That&#8217;s a sizzle! Los Angeles, Long Beach, Santa Barbara and San Francisco continue to promote the idea of ditching cars and playing in the streets through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-street-closures.html\">marketing and hosted events<\/a>. \u00a0However, the open streets movement has seen some fizzles, as well.<\/p>\n<h2>Sizzle<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Open street events and cicLavia\u00a0continue\u00a0&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-street-closures.html\">see list<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sunday Streets San Francisco Mission Mar. 12, 2017<\/li>\n<li>cicLAvia Culver City meets Venice Mar. 26, 2017<\/li>\n<li>City of Long Beach Open Street event April 29, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Car Free initiative in Santa Barbara, San Francisco and San Luis Obispo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fizzle<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Streets Project (openstreetsproject.org) lists\u00a0dozens of California participants. Be careful when clicking links such as\u00a0San Mateo\u00a0County&#8217;s Streets Alive website. As of Mar.3, 2017 the link led to\u00a0an escort service website. Open Streets Project had no events listed on the 2017 calendar either.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 5, 2017 Los Angeles Metro hosts 626 Golden Streets, billed as the\u00a0biggest Open Streets event ever to be held in North America. The public is invited to explore 17+ miles of car-free streets along\u00a0Metro&#8217;s\u00a0recently expanded\u00a0Gold Line in parts of\u00a0San Gabriel Valley\u00a0northeast of Los Angeles (in the 626 area code.) That&#8217;s a sizzle! Los [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}