During one of the city’s CicLAvia bike-riding events on December 7, 2014, many individuals and families participated in the ride, which extended from Central Avenue along Martin Luther King Boulevard to Leimert Park.
Sergeant Steve Showler of Pacific Division was assigned to the event’s route from the Southwest Area Station to Leimert Park. Around noon, he noticed one of the families he’d seen periodically during the event was beginning to split up. At the rear of the little group, a young boy, as Showler put it, “was pedaling wildly but not going very far,” because the chain on his bike had become dislodged.
“I saw that semi-panicked look on the fathers face as the boy’s sister was getting pretty far ahead,” said Showler. So he suggested to the boy’s father that he catch up with his daughter and bring her back, and in the meantime, he would fix the bike chain. Fortunately, it didn’t take long to fix, and in no time, the family was back together and on their way.
Two other CicLAvia events were held in 2014, one in October and the other in April. Inspired by CicLAvia, a weekly event in Bogotá, Colombia, established nearly 40 years ago, CicLAvia consists of the temporary opening of Los Angeles streets to all Angelenos. Free to the public, it attracts thousands of participants and interconnects diverse portions of the city, creating a web of temporary public space without car traffic.
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