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This Week: Help Design a Ped-Friendly Street and a New Plaza
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This Wednesday, the Planning Department will hold simultaneous community meetings about making a more pedestrian-friendly Castro Street and the creation of a new Pavement to Parks plaza at the Persia Triangle in the Excelsior District. Those interested in more bike-friendly streets in the Glen Park, Noe Valley, and Castro neighborhoods can also join the SF Bicycle Coalition […]
This Week: Urban Farms, Golden Wheel Awards, AIDS Walk
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday Can You Make a Living as an Urban Farmer? Urban agriculture provides education, places for people to gather, and green spaces in cities. But what about jobs and livelihoods? Numerous city farming and urban gardening projects with a commercial focus have popped up in the Bay […]
This Week: Bike Lights, Carlson Boulevard, Holiday Lights
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday Light up the Night. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s Light up the Night is an annual bike-light distribution campaign done in conjunction with Bay Area Bicycle Law. Volunteers install hundreds of white front lights and red back lights on bicycles for people riding in the dark. […]
This Week: Ocean Beach, Board Meeting, Caltrain
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most in-person events have been canceled. Here is a list of (mostly) online/webinar events this week.
Advocates Upset By Prospect of Further Bike Lane Delays
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Advocates are not ready to compromise a single bike lane in the big 56. Photo: Matthew Roth SFBC Program Manager Andy Thornley had the sinking feeling, following an MTA Traffic Engineering meeting last Friday, that the agency was not serious about its commitment to moving as many of the priority 56 bicycle projects forward as […]
This Week: Manufacturing, Polk Street, St. James Park
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Wednesday Building Up Urban Manufacturing. After decades of decline, manufacturing is making a comeback. It can create well-paying jobs, help rebuild the middle class, and build pride of place. Hear about how San Jose is growing its urban manufacturing sector through creative marketing, policy, workforce development, and […]