Scenic City Streets debuts Sunday with no cars allowed on parts of Frazier, Market

Local businesses will be on the street selling food, playing games and enjoying the scenic streets.

Are you down with the cyclovia?

If that sounds like a medical condition, then you must not have heard of Chattanooga’s first openstreets event (cyclovia is a Spanish term meaning “cycleway”).

Called Scenic Streets, the cyclovia will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 19, with a kickoff ride at 11:30 a.m. led by Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher.

Frazier Avenue from Market Street to Tremont Avenue will be closed to car traffic and open only to foot traffic and bike traffic for those four hours. (There will be access to Coolidge Park and CARTA parking off Tremont Street.)

The Market Street Bridge also will be closed to cars so that people on foot and on bike can visit vendors from the Chattanooga Market. Back on the North Shore, local businesses will be on the street selling food, playing games and enjoying the scenic streets.

Parking will be available in Coolidge Park from Veterans Bridge via Tremont Street, in Renaissance Park from Highway 27 or in the CARTA lot located behind the Shell station on Frazier Avenue or in the parking lots downtown. Then you can walk, rent a bike or take your own bike to the event.

There will be a “Future Frazier Bike Lane,” a bike lane that will allow you to ride on Frazier to the Walnut Street Bridge (without cars).

The event is a project of Bike Tours Direct along with the city of Chattanooga, Chattanooga Market, North Shore Insurance, the North Shore Chamber, Publix and Nektur Marketing.

A map and list of activities can be found at www. scenicstscha.com, or contact Christy Smith at ScenicStCha@gmail.com or 423-227-7009.