Cesar Chavez Streetscape Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
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This Week: N-Judah Upgrades, Cesar Chavez Ribbon Cutting
By Streetsblog |
This week, the SFMTA will hold two community meetings on improvements coming to the N-Judah. It’s also time to cut the ribbon on the newly-finished redesign of Cesar Chavez Street, and another community meeting on Geary Bus Rapid Transit will be held in Japantown. We’re having some technical problems with the actual calendar pages, which […]
Cesar Chavez: A Traffic Sewer Transformed Into a Safer Street
By Aaron Bialick |
Western Cesar Chavez Street has been transformed after decades as a dangerous motor vehicle speedway that divided the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods. City officials cut the ribbon today on a redesign of the street, nearly nine years after residents began pushing for safety improvements. Cesar Chavez was widened in the 1930s and 40s at […]
This Week in Livable Streets Events
By Aaron Bialick |
This week, urbanist innovators discuss the future of parklets and other temporary street changes, the city holds an update meeting on the Cesar Chavez streetscape project, and the SFBC teaches the facts about biking pregnant or with babies. Here are the highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday: SPUR Lunchtime Forum – Time’s Up: the End of Temporary. […]
Friday: Opening Ceremony for Polk Contra-Flow Bike Lane
By Aaron Bialick |
The Polk Street contra-flow protected bike lane connecting Market Street to City Hall is set to be unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday at 11 a.m. City officials will follow the event with a bike tour of recent streetscape projects, hitting various neighborhoods before returning to Civic Center. Get one of the few available […]
Western Cesar Chavez Streetscape Project to Be Completed in Summer 2013
By Aaron Bialick |
Construction on the Cesar Chavez Sewer and Streetscape Improvement Project will be completed a few months behind schedule in summer 2013, according to the SF Department of Public Works. DPW’s Kris Opbroek said the streetscape portion will begin in the spring as completion of the sewer work moves west. When finished, the project will transform Cesar Chavez […]
This Week in Livable Streets Events
By Michael Rhodes |
Muni is far from alone in facing service cuts. This week, the front line of transit service reductions is in Oakland, where AC Transit will be holding a public hearing on proposed cuts. Plus, check out plenty of more uplifting events from this week’s Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday: SPUR Young Urbanists: Ballots and brews. Learn what’s […]