SFMTA Board of Directors Meeting
Item of Note:
- Approving parking and traffic modifications associated with the Mission Valencia Green Gateway Streetscape Project on Valencia Street between Cesar Chavez Street and Mission Street
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Mission and Valencia Green Gateway: Community Open House
By Aaron Bialick |
Help us green your neighborhood! Drop by anytime during the Community Open House to learn more about the Mission & Valencia Green Gateway, an upcoming project that will improve Valencia Street between Cesar Chavez and Mission Streets, contribute your ideas and feedback, and speak one-on-one with the project team. More details on the open house […]
Don’t Miss the Year’s Final Sunday Streets in the Mission
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The 2011 slate of Sunday Streets wraps up this weekend in the Mission District, bringing car-free space back to the ever-popular Valencia and 24th Street route. This spring, an estimated 25,000 people came out for the year’s first installment of Sunday Streets in the Mission. The event marks the end of a highly successful season […]
Sunday Streets: The Mission
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From Sunday Streets: The Mission Sunday Streets will take place on Valencia St from 26th St to McCoppin Hub Plaza. Sunday Streets is a pet friendly event.
SFMTA Engineering Hearing
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Agenda Includes bulb-outs on outer Mission Street, daylighting at Valencia Street and Duboce Avenue, and more.
Creating a Safer “Green Gateway” at Valencia and Mission Streets
By Aaron Bialick |
A chunk of roadway at Valencia and Mission Streets would be reclaimed to create a plaza designed to make the corner more pedestrian-friendly and absorb stormwater under a project led by the SF Public Utilities Commission. The Valencia and Mission Green Gateway Project would widen sidewalks and add greenery and permeable pavement treatments along the […]
Eyes on the Street: Lounging on a Reclaimed Valencia Street
By Aaron Bialick |
Swinging through SF for a few days, Streetfilms producer Clarence spotted a nice setup at yesterday’s Sunday Streets in the Mission. Harrington’s, an antique furniture store, used some of its sofa inventory to create a comfortable little music venue on Valencia Street. “People were encouraged to just sit in it,” said Clarence, noting that “tons […]