Walk San Francisco is San Francisco’s premier pedestrian advocacy organization. Walk SF and its members are making San Francisco a more livable, walkable city and reclaiming our streets as shared public space for everyone to enjoy. Join us!
Some Walk SF members gather for a foggy Peak2Peak walk: 12 miles, 10 peaks!
Walk San Francisco’s smart, targeted advocacy has been improving our city’s streets and neighborhoods since 1998. Our volunteer-led walks program explores different parts of the city every month: check out our events calendar (lower right).
Walk SF wins include:
• Securing funds for wider sidewalks and better street crossings throughout the city.
• Opening city streets by launching car-free Sunday Streets and supporting parklets and plazas.
• Improving safety on big streets, including 19th Ave and plans for Masonic and Cesar Chavez.
• Making developers pay the real cost of car traffic and its impacts on pedestrians.
• Raising fines on cars blocking sidewalks.
• Winning media and decision-maker attention to the pedestrian perspective.
Walk San Francisco Mission Statement
Walk San Francisco promotes walking as a safe and sustainable form of transportation that increases our city’s livability, enhances public life, and improves public and environmental health. We seek to improve San Francisco’s walking environment through activism and policy advocacy that educates residents, city agencies, and elected officials regarding the need for more pedestrian-friendly streets.
Our goals are:
- To ensure the design of a human-scaled, pedestrian-oriented city.
- To promote community attitudes and government policies that favor walking.
- To increase funding for pedestrian-friendly transportation planning and projects.
- To reduce pedestrian deaths and injuries.
- To increase walking in San Francisco by making it fun!
- To make San Francisco the most walkable city in the United States.
