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Celebrating San Francisco With a Sunday Streets Bicycle Ride

By Matthew Roth | May 11, 2009 | 6 Comments

Biker baby looking cool. Photo: Matthew Roth The second of six Sunday Streets was a great success as thousands of people got out on a glorious sunny day to pedal, blade, run, skate, and stroll along the waterfront from AT&T park down to India Basin and the Bayview Opera House. By coincidence, my father was […]

Eyes on the Street: It’s Beginning to Look Like… a Livable Street!

By Bryan Goebel | May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo by Nick Perry. New sign at the corner of 17th Street and Noe. Photos by Bryan Goebel. A portion of 17th Street in the Castro is being closed to cars at Market this weekend, marking the beginning of San Francisco’s first trial street closure. The two DPT workers installing the new signs late this […]

Come Celebrate Mothers Day This Sunday in the Bayview

By Matthew Roth | May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

We hope you’re all getting ready for the second of six Sunday Streets this Sunday in the Bayview from 10 am – 2 pm. The SFBC edited together this lovely video from last year’s Sunday Streets in the Bayview to whet your appetite for good times. See you on your bikes (or blades or boards […]

Streetfilms: The Search for the Zozo

By Bryan Goebel | May 1, 2009 | 3 Comments

I’m in New York this week meeting the who’s who of the city’s Livable Streets movement and learning about a lovable, purple, near-extinct creature that is apparently making a comeback. I’ll let Clarence Eckerson explain: As New York history buffs can tell you, until the early part of the 20th century, the city was prime […]

Another Model of Convivial Spaces

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 29, 2009 | 13 Comments

Crowds stretch down Glasgow, Scotland’s Buchanan Street pedestrian-only zone. In Glasgow, Scotland a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to reacquaint myself with a lovely feature of many European cities: broad central city streets converted to pedestrian only. In Glasgow it’s on Sauchiehall Street and makes a grand turn onto Buchanan, covering over 20 […]

Don’t Forget To Come Play in the Streets This Sunday!

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 24, 2009 | No Comments

Members of the California Outdoor Rollersports Association perform a Thriller dance at last year’s Sunday Streets. Flickr photo: Jon Bauer This weekend’s Sunday Streets from 9am-1pm on the Embarcadero from the Giants ballpark to Aquatic Park promises to be more thrilling than last year’s, with a lot more activities planned along the waterfront. So don’t […]

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