Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Livable Streets Events

Highlight of the week: Join Streetsblog and fellow advocates this Thursday for a happy hour at Virgil’s Sea Room — we’d love to see you. Elsewhere this week: Supervisors host three Transportation 2030 open house meetings on ballot measures, SPUR hosts a walking tour of the Transbay Transit Center and looks at updates on California […]

A City Hall hearing this afternoon is your chance to weigh in on the SFFD’s push for wider streets, followed by the first open house on the Transportation 2030 funding measures planned for November’s ballot. Later this week: a SPUR forum also envisions “the car-less city,” the city holds a workshop on redesigning Ocean Avenue, […]

Thursday marks the 20th annual Bike to Work Day. The California Bicycle Coalition will hold a benefit party on Wednesday; buy tickets through our site and Streetsblog will get a cut. City agencies will also hold an open house to present new proposals for a redesign of Columbus Avenue. Here are this week’s calendar highlights: Tuesday: The SFMTA Board […]

Author Benjamin Ross is in town to discuss his new book about the approaching end of suburban sprawl, and Bayview and Dogpatch get another opportunity to enjoy Sunday Streets. Here are this week’s calendar highlights: Thursday: Benjamin Ross speaks twice about his new book, Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism, exploring lessons from suburbia. He’ll be […]

More than 40 schools in San Francisco will be participating in this year’s Bike to School Week, sponsored by the SF Safe Routes to School Partnership and organized by the SF Bicycle Coalition. Here are this week’s calendar highlights: All Week: For Bike to School Week, more than 2,500 students and adults at 40 schools around the city are […]

Tomorrow, the SFMTA Board of Directors could vote tomorrow on a budget that caves to pressure from Mayor Ed Lee and undoes Sunday parking metering. On Thursday, a SPUR panel explores the idea of a contra-flow transit lane on the Bay Bridge. Here are this week’s calendar highlights: Tuesday: The SFMTA Board of Directors could vote on a […]