SPUR Evening Symposium: From free love to Folsom Street

By Abigail Shull
May 17, 2010

"Part of San Francisco’s cultural flair includes an openness toward sexual freedom. How has this come to be? Kick off Pride week by joining moderator Carol Queen of the Center for Sex and Culture, Nan Boyd of SF State’s Women and Gender Studies Department, Madison Young of Femina Potens gallery and Demetri Moshoyannis of Folsom Street Events."

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Folsom Complete Street Pilot Project Community Meeting

By Andrew Saavedra | Oct 14, 2013

From SFBC: Come and learn about the pilot project to improve safety along Folsom Street that the City is proposing and that you helped make happen through our Safe SoMa Now! campaign.

SFMTA Stripes Bike Lanes on Folsom Street Connecting SoMa and the Mission

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 30, 2012

The SFMTA striped new bike lanes on Folsom Street between 13th and 19th Streets last week, creating a safer and more direct connection for bike commuters between SoMa and the Mission. The bike lanes, which came along with a road diet and street re-paving, were called for in the Mission Streetscape Plan. They provide a continuous connection […]

SFMTA Board of Directors Meeting

By Andrew Saavedra | Nov 17, 2013

Agenda: Of note: 16. Approving bicycle and traffic modifications on Folsom Street between 11th Street and 4th Street as part of a pilot program to test traffic lane removal as follows: A. ESTABLISH: LANE REMOVAL (18 month trial) -Folsom Street, 4th-11th Street B. ESTABLISH: RIGHT LANE MUST TURN RIGHT EXCEPT TRANSIT (18 month trial) […]

Folsom Street Road Diet Includes Bike Lanes, Bus Bulbs in the Mission

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 8, 2011

A redesign of Folsom Street in the Mission District aimed at calming motor traffic and improving conditions for walking and bicycling is one step closer to becoming a reality. A proposal to add bike lanes and bus bulbs is now on its way to the SFMTA Board of Directors. The street “was identiﬁed through the Eastern Neighborhoods process […]

SFBC Safe SoMa Member Committee

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 21, 2013

From SFBC: Join the SF Bicycle Coalition’s Safe SoMa Member committee. Learn about the new Folsom street pilot and what the next steps are to make Folsom, Howard and the rest of SoMa streets safer.

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Eyes on the Street: New Bike Lanes, Road Diet on Folsom in the Mission

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 15, 2013

The Mission’s stretch of Folsom Street, between 19th and 24th Streets, just got safer with bike lanes and a road diet striped along with a road-repaving. Formerly two general traffic lanes in each direction, the street now consists of one bike lane and one general lane on each side, resulting in a calmer environment and […]