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Open Streets celebration meant closed to traffic in downtown La Crosse
Event part of 7th annual Bicycle Fest
The streets of downtown La Crosse were closed Sunday as part of a celebration.
The event was called Open Streets and, ironically, that meant it was closed to traffic – but open for just about everything else.
La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat said the Open Streets celebration has been tried in cities like Milwaukee and Madison.
“Even though we’re not at that scale, we’re not that large,” Kabat said, “we are introducing it this year as part of the bike fest to get people to understand that cities were not designed for cars, they were designed for people.”
The 7th annual Bicycle Fest featured riders from several states and Canada, according to Carolyn Dvorak with the Wisconsin Bike Fed.