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Lessons from Amsterdam: How S.F. Can Bicycle toward Greatness
By Aaron Bialick |
From SFBC: Join David Chiu, President of the S.F. Board of Supervisors, and Leah Shahum, Executive Director of the S.F. Bicycle Coalition, as they share lessons from their recent trips to Amsterdam, a great city with an inspiring bicycling environment. San Francisco is another great city that loves bicycling. As record numbers of people are biking […]
Learning from the Netherlands
By Aaron Bialick |
From SFBC: Join Leah Shahum, Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, David Chiu, Board of Supervisor’s President, and Bart Van Bolhuis, Consul General for the Netherlands, as they share lessons from living and studying the extraordinary bicycling experience of Amsterdam. How can SF catch up with the widespread demand for improvements and connect […]
This Week in Livable Streets Events
By Aaron Bialick |
This week, the Board of Supervisors holds hearings on Muni reliability issues, Supervisor Mark Farrell takes you on a tour of his district, David Chiu and Leah Shahum share lessons from Amsterdam, Streetsblog joins a panel discussion on shared-space streets, and Healthy Saturdays kicks off in Golden Gate Park. Here are the highlights from the […]
This Week in Livable Streets Events
By Aaron Bialick |
This week, San Francisco will get a new interim mayor, the SFBC’s Leah Shahum returns with lessons from Amsterdam, and some fun rides are in store for the weekend. Here are the highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Monday: Diridon Station Community Meeting. Join the Greenbelt Alliance and the SVBC’s Carlos Babcock for a presentation on how this […]
SFBC Director Leah Shahum to Write for Streetsblog from Amsterdam
By Bryan Goebel |
By now, you’ve probably heard that SFBC Executive Director Leah Shahum is taking an eight-month sabbatical to one of the world’s great cycling cities, Amsterdam. Shahum will be missed by many during her absence, but I’m excited to announce today that she’ll be chronicling her experiences and thoughts from Amsterdam for Streetsblog San Francisco. "I’m […]
SPUR Lunchtime Forum: Going Dutch: Creating a bicycle-dependent city
By Aaron Bialick |
From SPUR: Join San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Leah Shahum as she shares lessons learned from her eight-month sabbatical in Amsterdam. What can we learn here in San Francisco from the success in bicycling and livability of Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Paris? What are the crucial lessons from Europe as we prepare to pilot bikeshare here in San Francisco? How can we build […]