Community Corner
California Bike Race to Visit Echo Park-Silver Lake May 20
The last stage of the Amgen Tour of California will see participants pedaling down Sunset Boulevard in a reverse of much of the L.A. Marathon route.
Motorists should be braced for brief road closures, but bicycle racing fans will have an up-close look Sunday when the Amgen Tour of California bike race winds through the mountains of Los Angeles County and finishes Sunday on the streets of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and downtown L.A.
L.A. streets may be thronged with fans, but road closures will not be lengthy as the bike race passes any given spot relatively quickly, organizers said. Events at Sunday's finish line, at L.A. Live, are slated to wrap up by 1 p.m.
Sunday's race will start on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, then wind down the Sunset Strip into Hollywood. The bike race will follow the L.A. Marathon route — but backwards — towards Dodger Stadium and into Downtown Los Angeles.
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In Echo Park-Silver Lake, this means all lanes of Sunset Boulevard will be closed between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. (See the 2012 Amgen Tour Route in Los Angeles). Parking will also be discouraged along the route from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The bikers won't spend as much time passing through as the runners. Organizers say it could take as little as five minutes for them to pass any one point in the area.
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After Echo Park, the racers will zigzag south of Sunset past City Hall, past the Biltmore Hotel, then head up Bunker Hill to Walt Disney Hall. A final downhill sprint will lead to the finish line at Staples Center.
The eight-day bike race started Sunday in Santa Rosa, 50 miles north of San Francisco.
