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Coastal Cleanup- Community Clean Team District 10
By Michael Rhodes |
"Join the Clean team to beautify your community and help keep San Francisco clean, green, and graffiti free. We are looking for volunteers to help clean up the neighborhoods, parks and San Francisco coastline throughout District 10."
This Week in Livable Streets Events
By Michael Rhodes |
This week there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in shaping the future of your community, clean and green it up now, and take a look back at SF’s architectural tradition. Best of all, the workweek winds down with a Livable Streets tradition — PARK(ing) Day! Here are the highlights. Monday: Public Meeting for […]
Market Street Prototyping Festival Kickoff + Info Session
By Aaron Bialick |
Via Eventbrite: This October, the future of Market Street will be built by YOU. The Market Street Prototyping Festival invites you to help shape the next chapter of the city’s public life. For three days, two miles of San Francisco’s main thoroughfare will become a testing ground for your best ideas to improve our city’s […]
Final Pavement to Parks Plaza Skips Trial, Becomes Semi-Permanent Park
By Matthew Roth |
Community groups, city staff and elected officials celebrated the opening of the final Pavement to Parks plaza this weekend, a new 7,500 square foot space that months before was a wide asphalt expanse notorious for speeding traffic and more than a few drivers doing donuts amid smoking tires and revved engines. City Attorney Dennis Herrera […]
This Week: Elections, Sunday Streets, Bay Bridge Bike Path Summer Hours
By Roger Rudick |
Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday: How LA and SJ Embraced Modern Transit. Both Los Angeles and San Jose are working to transform themselves from auto-oriented cities to the transit-oriented towns of tomorrow. What has Los Angeles learned from the South Bay, and what can we learn from LA’s recent transit expansions? […]
Bay Area Counties Compete to Curb Solo Auto Commutes
By Matthew Roth |
Yuck. Photo: izahorsky In an effort to curb solo commuting and educate employees at various city and county agencies, and at several touchstone regional employers, 511.org and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District are sponsoring the "Great Race for Clean Air" in August and September. The event is similar to TransForm’s CarFree Challenge or […]