Lowriders lawfully cruise again

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🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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For decades, many California cities banned car cruising. Activists are slowly getting those laws repealed.

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0:00.0	Really excited for today.
0:03.3	Today's the first of our six cruises on Highland Avenue.
0:11.4	Few things are more beautiful on a California summer evening than the site of low riders,
0:16.4	cruising low and slow and bouncing up and down through the streets.
0:27.4	The boats and the bombs, your Chevy fleet lines and Monte Carlo's and Eldos, all chrome and leather seats and just faded men.
0:30.6	But for decades, municipalities across the Golden State have been declaring war on low-right.
0:36.6	Our main goal is to repeal a no cruising ordinance in national city.
0:45.2	Yeah? That's our main goal.
0:48.4	A no cruising ordinance?
0:50.3	That's not cool, carnal.
0:54.0	I'm Gustavo Arriano.
0:55.8	You're listening to The Times, Daily News from the LA Times.
0:59.4	It's Thursday, June 30th, 2022.
1:02.4	Today, why cities banned car cruising in the first place,
1:06.0	and how activists are finally winning.
1:08.8	Because who are these streets belong to? who are these streets belong to?
1:12.2	Who are these streets belong to?
1:15.6	This is our street.
1:17.4	We organize and we mobilize.
1:20.9	Tammy Murga is a reporter with the San Diego Union Tribune, and she recently went to cover a low-rider cruise in National City.
1:27.3	Tammy, welcome the Times. Thank you for having me a low-rider cruise in National City. Tammy, welcome to
1:28.2	Times. Thank you for having me, Gustavo. Okay, so National City, what is it? What do you find there?
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