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This Week in Livable Streets Events
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This week is packed full of stimulating discussions to work your brain, and wraps up with the last Sunday Streets of the season to work your body. The Labor History Bike Tour will do a little of both! Here are the week’s highlights. Tuesday: SPUR Lunchtime Forum: Job sprawl and the polycentric megaregion. Is the […]
San Jose Celebrates First ViaVelo, Opens Downtown Streets to People
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A family enjoying the warm day and car-free streets. Photos: Matthew Roth. San Jose kicked off its first ViaVelo Saturday with the opening of seven blocks of San Fernando Street downtown to bicycle riders, skaters, and pedestrians who enjoyed five hours of car-free space. Several hundred people showed up, many of them families and the […]
Bike-Share and Open Streets: A Perfect Match
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Open streets events, or ciclovias, give people a new way to explore their city's streets. Without cars on the streets, they're a natural opportunity for people who don't usually ride a bike to hop on two wheels -- and that's precisely why it's important to include bike-share systems in the mix, says Stefani Cox at the Better Bike Share Partnership.
This Week in Livable Streets Events
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This week, join a screening and discussion of the film The End of Suburbia, get a sneak peek at work being done on the city’s library branches, and spot some of the city’s avian wildlife on two wheels. Here are the highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday: SPUR Lunchtime Forum: Greening Apartment Buildings. Join green […]
This Week in Livable Streets Events
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This week, the SFBC gets you ready for Bike to Work Day, The Lost Cyclist author David V. Herlihy holds a discussion and book signing, SPUR discusses a new report on transit-oriented development and Walk SF takes you through the “Trendyloin”. Here are the highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Monday: How to Bike Anywhere Workshop. […]
Berkeley Bike-In Movie at Trumer Pils Brewery
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From EBBC: Brought to you by the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition and the East Bay Bicycle Coalition Dark O’Clock (around 7:30 PM short films will start) Brewery Tour before the movies! Short Films at 8:30pm, including the winner of the 24-Hour Digital Film Contest Feature Presentation: With My Own Two Wheels Q&A with the filmmaker after screening […]