Streetsblog San Francisco

We're getting very excited for the weekend, especially the second of two Sunday Streets events in the Mission, this Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm. After you've experience the streets freed from vehicular traffic noise and opened up for walking and bicycling, roll/walk on over to Valencia Cyclery to celebrate a certain blog we like.

Streetsblog San Francisco is nearly seven months old, and with our nose to the transportation grindstone, we haven't even thrown a party yet to say thank you to you, our readers, and the communities you represent.

I'm happy to announce today that Dave Snyder, the former transportation director at SPUR, will join Streetsblog San Francisco as a regular contributor.

Following the siren song of the Fossil Fool, or expecting to anyway (he was very late!), I joined a surprisingly large contingent of San Francisco cyclists to ride the 20-odd miles to the Maker Faire at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. Gray foggy skies kept us cool as we headed out, and right away the etiquette of a Critical Mass broke down, as we separated into ever smaller groups of cyclists, broken up by the red lights.

For the first time since our launch in January, we covered a news event last week on Twitter, offering tweets from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee meeting, and it seemed to be quite a hit with our followers on Twitter.