A City of Santa Monica Big Blue Bus drives through the ribbon to re-open the historic California Incline on Thursday, September 1, 2016. The 17 months reconstruction project was paid for by the Federal Highway Trust Fund. The now seismically upgraded and stronger bridge boasts a 16-foot-wide separated shared pedestrian/bicycle path, a reflection of Santa Monica’s commitment to multi-modal living. “We are thrilled to welcome the new safer and stronger California Incline on the 120th anniversary of the Sunset Trail,” said Mayor Tony Vazquez. “This vital link between Santa Monica and PCH demonstrates what federal dollars can do to support significant local infrastructure.” The new balustrades pay homage to the old barrier rail with its streamlined modern design now with more contoured arches and pilasters. The new concrete bridge deck now sits on 96 concrete piles drilled beneath the bluff’s surface, supporting the shared bike and pedestrian path, and one lane for vehicles in both directions. Over 1,000 soil nails to stabilize the bluff along the eastern edge. The new Incline exceeds strength requirements and will serve more than just cars in a community that is all about transportation choice. “Our new California Incline is not only a feat of modern engineering, it’s the fruit of great human effort, sure to be with us for some time to come,” said Curtis Castle a civil engineer with the Public Works Department. “Hundreds of individuals worked on this project day and night for 17 straight months.”

A Dingo Doggies LLC dog walker walks a pack of dogs along Ocean Front Walk on Monday, August 29, 2016.

Go Topless Day - Images by Fabian Lewkowicz

Equal rights activists march along the Venice Boardwalk wearing pasties during the 9th annual National Go Topless Day on Sunday, August 28, 2016.The Go-Topless Day rally is meant to proclaim women’s constitutional right to go bare-chested in public. Gotopless.org claims constitutional equality between men and women on being topless in public. Currently, women who dare to be topless in public in the US are repeatedly being arrested, fined, humiliated, criminalized. Many states in the US have adopted the right for women to be topless in public. HOWEVER, in many cases, local ordinances and discriminatory practices result in women STILL being unable to be topless in the same area as men. The purpose of Go Topless Day is top point out the discrimination in these ordinances. The annual national Go Topless Day protest falls on the exact day that the original womens rights bill was signed into effect giving women ALL the same rights that men have. Members of gotopless.org will be giving a petition in Washington DC and requesting an audience with the president to enforce womens rights and make the ordinances either eliminate the ordinance OR remove the name female or woman in the ordinance which will give them the right to cite MEN as well as women for baring thier nipples. To read more about the ordinances, find a city close to you where the parade will be held, donate to help the cause, or get other information please go to www.gotopless.org

Equal rights activists march along the Venice Boardwalk wearing pasties during the 9th annual National Go Topless Day on Sunday, August 28, 2016.The Go-Topless Day rally is meant to proclaim women’s constitutional right to go bare-chested in public. Gotopless.org claims constitutional equality between men and women on being topless in public. Currently, women who dare to be topless in public in the US are repeatedly being arrested, fined, humiliated, criminalized. Many states in the US have adopted the right for women to be topless in public. HOWEVER, in many cases, local ordinances and discriminatory practices result in women STILL being unable to be topless in the same area as men. The purpose of Go Topless Day is top point out the discrimination in these ordinances. The annual national Go Topless Day protest falls on the exact day that the original womens rights bill was signed into effect giving women ALL the same rights that men have. Members of gotopless.org will be giving a petition in Washington DC and requesting an audience with the president to enforce womens rights and make the ordinances either eliminate the ordinance OR remove the name female or woman in the ordinance which will give them the right to cite MEN as well as women for baring thier nipples. To read more about the ordinances, find a city close to you where the parade will be held, donate to help the cause, or get other information please go to www.gotopless.org

Save Ferris performs during the annual Twilight Concert at the Santa Monica Pier on Thursday, August 25, 2016.

A man rolls along Santa Monica Beach on his Action Trackchair on Monday, August 22, 2016. The Action Trackchair it the ultimate in off-road wheelchairs. It can go places one didn’t think possible. The Action Trackchair can navigate mountain roads, campgrounds, woods, beaches, hiking trails, frozen lakes, shallow streams, muddy and snowy terrain and much more.

Mavis Staples performs during tonight's Twilight concert on the Santa Monica Pier.

Mavis Staples performs during tonight's Twilight concert on the Santa Monica Pier.