This Weekend: Sunday Streets Returns to the Tenderloin and Civic Center

By Aaron Bialick
Aug 16, 2013

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It’s been a while, but the Tenderloin and Civic Center will be graced once again with Sunday Streets this weekend. Get out and enjoy this rare opportunity to play on the normally speed-dominated streets of one of the city’s densest neighborhoods.

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SF Continues to Explore More Permanent Sunday Streets in 2012

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 17, 2012

Sunday Streets keeps on growing, with 10 car-free events coming to neighborhoods around the city this year. This year’s schedule includes four consecutive months of the ever-popular Mission route, a new route in the Excelsior, and a modified route through Golden Gate Park. The Civic Center/Tenderloin route was also taken off the table this year […]

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By Roger Rudick | Apr 8, 2022

Here are a few Streetsblog news nuggets to start your weekend.

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Why SF Should Strive to Replicate the Polk Contra-Flow Protected Bike Lane

By Aaron Bialick | May 16, 2014

On the two southernmost blocks of Polk Street, between Market Street and City Hall, the new contra-flow protected bike lane creates a unique street layout for San Francisco. For the first time on a downtown street, people on bikes are accommodated in a way that people in cars are not. Bike traffic goes both ways, while […]

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Inner Sunset Organizers Take a Serious Look at Irving Street Public Plaza

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 10, 2013

The vision for a block-long pedestrian plaza on Irving Street in the Inner Sunset is taking the next step, with the launch of a community-based study. Dubbed “Irving Commons,” the plaza idea was warmly received by neighbors when it was presented two years ago at Inner Sunset Sundays, a street party organized four times per […]

Sunday Streets on Valencia in 2018. Image: Catherine Orland

Weekend Roundup: Return of Sunday Streets, Help Quantify Speeding Rates

By Roger Rudick | Mar 4, 2022

Here are a few Streetsblog news nuggets to start your weekend.

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Eyes on the Street: Another Driver Jumps the Curb in the Tenderloin

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 20, 2015

No sidewalk is safe. Another driver jumped the curb and crashed into a building at Post and Taylor Streets near Union Square on Sunday. Cheryl Brinkman, who sits on the SFMTA Board of Directors, captured this photo of the aftermath and remarked: “I’ve been keeping a mental list of ‘Things we can’t trust car drivers […]