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Calling All Livable Streets Photographers
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Lacking high-quality, free photos for use in your livable streets advocacy work? This fall, you can help build an open source library of photos and win cool prizes while you’re at it. The Alliance for Biking and Walking has launched their People-Powered Movement Photo Contest to build a photo library for biking and walking advocates. […]
Livable Streets Community Meet-Up!
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Join Streetsblog SF and the Livable Streets Initiative next week to meet fellow advocates from around the Bay Area to discuss the role of technology in transportation advocacy. Whether you’re a long-time transit/neighborhood activist or just getting interested in taking action, join the Livable Streets Community to share strategies and let us know how technology can grease the […]
Bike Bans: A Serious Threat to Safe Routes to School
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Banned in NJ: Many Jersey towns don’t allow kids to bike to school. Photo: Voorhees Transportation Center Image Library, Leigh Ann Von Hagen. This May, a bill surfaced in the U.S. Senate that would triple federal funding for Safe Routes to School programs. Livable Streets Community activists have been on the case this week, mobilizing […]
Cycle Chicly!
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The interplay of cycling, fashion, and gender has been a hot topic in the livable streets blogosphere this month, and in the Livable Streets Community too. We recently saw the launch of a bike culture-themed group blog called Amsterdamize, and on StreetsWiki we have a new article on Cycle Chic. Santa Barbara Cycle Chic. Photo: […]
Help Oakland Name Its Own “Summer Streets”
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A night scene from Oakland’s Uptown Unveiled. Photo: Living in the O We were excited to welcome two dynamic Oakland, CA, groups to the Livable Streets Community this week: Walk Oakland Bike Oakland (WOBO) and TransForm. Inspired by the success of San Francisco’s Sunday Streets, WOBO wants to launch its own East Bay version and […]
Urban Histories With Modern Lessons
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Downtown San Francisco as seen from Potrero Hill. Photo: Joe Bencharsky This week brought urban history lessons to StreetsWiki from Livable Streets members coast to coast. Joe Bencharsky penned a neighborhood profile of Potrero Hill, San Francisco, where his family has lived for three generations. Says Joe: Partly because of street and freeway configuration, partly […]
Profile Photo Contest Winner
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Congratulations to Livable Streets Community member silverlynx for his stunning submission to our Profile Photo Contest! Silverlynx is the captain of a tugboat on the San Francisco Bay and rides a DaHon bicycle to commute between jobs. The first prize of a bike gift basket donated by B’s Bikes in Williamsburg, Brooklyn goes to him. […]
Profile Photo Contest!
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Join the Livable Streets Community by May 13 for a chance to win this awesome bike gift basket! That’s right — it’s a bike basket doubling as a gift basket, packed with goodies including a mini bike pump, fold-up hex wrench set, an "I Love my Bike" bell, and more. All you have to do […]