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Broad Coalition Calls on SFMTA to Provide Free Muni Youth Passes

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 20, 2011 | 32 Comments

A broad coalition of community groups, youth leaders, transit advocates and elected officials called on the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency today to initiate a three-year pilot program to give young people ages 5 to 17 free Muni passes. The program would cost an estimated $7 million a year and result in a 4.6 percent […]

Lessons from Amsterdam: How SF Can Bicycle Toward Greatness

By Leah Shahum | Sep 19, 2011 | 27 Comments

It’s not often that you get to take your idea of utopia out for a test ride. But that’s what I was lucky enough to do for seven months last year while on sabbatical in Amsterdam. After more than a decade of helping to build the vision of San Francisco becoming a world-class bicycling city, […]

First Walking Sunday Streets a Hit in Chinatown and North Beach

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 19, 2011 | 18 Comments

San Francisco’s Grant Avenue, the city’s oldest street, was opened to pedestrians only yesterday in a milestone Sunday Streets event that drew thousands of people to the historic neighborhoods of Chinatown and North Beach on a sunny, 74-degree day. The city’s first walking Sunday Streets on a thoroughfare that seems like one of the most […]

PARK(ing) Day 2011 in San Francisco: “Time to Reclaim the Streets”

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 16, 2011 | 4 Comments

People all over San Francisco reclaimed metered parking spaces normally reserved for private automobiles today, and transformed them into living spaces for people to mark PARK(ing) Day, one of the most celebrated livable streets events that began here six years ago, and sparked a worldwide movement. “It’s exciting to see how in just a very […]

Celebrate PARK(ing) Day Tomorrow by Reclaiming the Curb

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 15, 2011 | No Comments

Dozens of installations are planned all over the Bay Area tomorrow to mark PARK(ing) Day, the annual worldwide event to reclaim metered curbside parking spaces normally used by cars and transform them into temporary “PARKS” for people. Last year, from Iran to Venezuela to South Korea, people in more than 180 cities across the globe […]

Candidates Talk Streets and Parks at Mayoral Forum

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 13, 2011 | 3 Comments

Eight mayoral candidates turned out for last night’s forum on streets and parks sponsored by Walk San Francisco, the Neighborhood Parks Council and Friends of the Urban Forest. The Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club’s endorsement meeting was also going on, and some of the candidates, who were juggling schedules, either showed up early and […]

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