[suspenseful music] [background noise] -Depending where the four of you are across this area, you can either keep going through here and just meet the other two people around here, and maybe come down towards First and Central.

Can we just all gather around, please?

-It's really cute, too.

-Open up the circle.

There we go.

All right, y'all.

Well, good morning.

Happy Friday to everyone.

I know we finally made it through a very long week.

I just want to start off by saying thank you to all of you because I know a lot of work has gone into Heart of LA, and I know how challenging that can be at times with logistics, getting here, being outside in the sun, so just thank you to everyone who has been able to make this possible and come out here this weekend as well.

I think I will leave us here in Boyle Heights.

John, if that's okay?

-Yes.

-All right.

Then Eric, I do want yo_ I want both Erics together, starting at Venice and Fig.

-Okay.

-Then if y'all could start in Chinatown, that would be perfect.

-Can I use the sunscreen after you?

-Yes, there's another one here.

-Oh, okay.

Thank you.

-Gigi, we don't need these ones.

-No, that's for us here.

Ready?

-Do we take the metro?

-Yes.

Do y'all have tap cards?

-Yes.

-We're just doing the cars and driveways, so we can just start down first.

-We'll come out on Sunday.

-All right.

-All right.

She's doing something, the whole blog-- There's going to be a blog party up there, but it's eight miles of just pure joy.

We convert public streets into public parks for a day.

-Nice.

-Come out.

-Okay.

Thank you.

-Thank you.

-Buenos dias.

-Hola, buenos dias.

Bueno, mire.

-It's basically a closure, so that people can ride their bikes and bring out their skates and stuff.

-I'll be at South Park, so I won't be anywhere around here, unfortunately.

-South Park being at the far end where it starts?

-Yes.

-It's connecting these communities.

It's the South Side, the Boyle Heights, Little Tokyo, Chinatown.

We'll be united for one day.

-Kill cars, ride bikes.

[chuckles] We should take a picture.

Let me take a picture.

Hold on.

I need to send this to production team.

It's kind of a sick picture.

It actually came out sick.

-Yes, because this route is, you can't get to the end of the street and get back, so it's 16 miles at the minimum.

I think if you're actually covering the whole route, it's 16 miles.

-LADOT?

-Yes.

-Do we want to go over closing and reopening timelines at all, or are you all already on the same page?

-I'll go over it real quick.

For LADOT, we're going to roll call at our office at 4:00 AM.

I think we'll be on site around 5:00, and we'll have the hubs secured and closed by 6:00 AM.

-Great.

-Are you excited?

-I'm very excited.

I really appreciate that this route is just so wide.

-Yes.

I always love the people walking in the morning.

-Yes, because it's right outside of your door.

-True.

-Especially for families.

[background conversation] -For the mayor, I don't know if it was my communication or the one that they did with both of us, but they wanted us to also send the information for South LA Press Conference now, so that they can get it on their calendar.

-Yes.

All right.

Why don't we get started with, we have an event.

Let's just do a quick round of updates.

How's the outreach?

Things on the ground?

-Our outreach in Chinatown was amazing.

St. Bridget, Chinese Catholic Church.

-he one north of the route.

-Yes.

Richard, at the church, included in his email that they're encouraging their members to go to church on bicycles that day because they really want their members to join the event after.

-That's cool.

-That's cool.

-All right.

Moving on, anything else on production related work?

-On Sunday, outreach is going to flyer residents in cars, park on St. Louis.

-We also are hiring a big new round of outreach team members.

I'm going to be doing a training with folks here on Friday to get them started on Sunday.

Yes.

Really exciting.

-These are bike rides.

-Not just bike rides.

They can be bike rides, but you can come out in roller skates, skateboards, scooters, walking, running.

-I'm going to go do that.

Honestly, that's on my way.

What are we doing?

-Yes.

On each route that we do, we, of course, we go to each business, each business, each residence.

When we find locations like this where it's just unique in whichever way that it is, we like to add it to our map.

When folks show up that day, they'll look at the map and it'll show them what spots they should visit.

I'm for sure going to add you to that.

-Yes, so I don't know.

I don't know for follow-up if it's worth just calling the bail bond number.

I have one there and then I left this up for residents as well.

I wasn't sure how many.

-That's perfect.

-Okay.

-That's good.

-I have one guy who's super uninterested.

He started closing the door on me as I was talking.

I was just like, okay, that's fine.

I'm just going to go.

-I know.

It happens.

-Yes.

-Yes.

Sometimes you're just like, thank you.

Bye.

-Well, thanks for your time.

[laughter] -Some folks don't have the same resources as others do to be able to connect with other communities.

-They can't pay attention to what's going on in the community because they're more concerned with providing what their household needs.

-Okay.

Do we have the OFIB?

-Yes.

I saw it.

-How about the merch supplies?

-Yes.

-Perfect.

Health and wellness box.

-Yes.

-How about the merchandise tab?

Yes.

Right there.

Perfect.

Okay.

Let's do the small merch.

-Yes.

-Cool.

Is that accessible?

-Yes.

-Perfect.

Health and wellness box.

-Yes.

-Hub volunteer.

-Yes.

-Here you go.

After dinner.

All right.

Do you want me to?

-I can.

[music] [background conversation] -Okay, so we'll just set it up.

-Just tell them what you want.

-Middle of the street.

That'll be good.

Does that work?

-Yes.

[music] -Good morning, LA.

Let's get some energy.

We're so honored to be here at our 48th CicLAvia since 2010.

We are here today on 7.8 miles of open streets.

7.8 miles of joyful streets.

7.8 miles of connection to our communities.

We have the largest open streets event in the country and it's called CicLAvia.

[music] -Hi.

Come over here.

[music] -This is for you too.

Enjoy your day.

[music] -I wanted to just thank all the volunteers, all the supporters.

Many people assume that when we talk about the heart of LA, it's really just about the route.

When we think about the heart of LA, we think about the people first.

All the communities that make up all parts of LA.

To us, that is the heart of LA.

[music] -Wait.

Wait.

[music] [street noise] -Wait.

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