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News from Walk SF’s Feb newsletter

member intern — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:19 +0000

The House just passed a transportation bill that slashed funds for biking and walking — and actually repealed Safe Routes to School. Thanks to everyone who spoke up — Representatives received thousands of calls. But the bill still squeaked by; now the fight moves to the Senate. Stay tuned.
More from the February Walk SF newsletter:

An Open Letter to Mayor Lee from Walk SF:

How Mayor Lee Can Make Smart Investments in Safer Streets in 2012

At Walk San Francisco’s member bash last month, Mayor Ed Lee celebrated making San Francisco the first big city in the state to help kids walk to school by creating 15-mph zones at 60 schools, out of 180 to come.

“We will, in our lifetimes, get to zero pedestrian deaths,” declared the Mayor, calling for “experimenting out of the box with every possible idea to make streets safer.”

The mayor set a bold vision for San Francisco, and an “out of the box” approach may be just what we need to reach it. But to stand by his commitment, Mayor Lee must provide the leadership our city needs to make smart, immediate investments to improve pedestrian safety in 2012.

Read on for Walk SF’s 5 Steps to a Better City

Walk SF Member Meeting & Greeting, Thurs 12/8

admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:17:41 +0000

Don’t miss this opportunity to get together with Walk SF members and special guest speakers:

Mayor Ed Lee
Supervisor John Avalos
Supervisor Scott Wiener

Celebrate how you’ve helped change the city this year, and find out what’s ahead in 2012.
Enjoy delicious food and drinks provided by the Beach Chalet brewery and Bi Rite Market, and win raffle prizes from Monk’s Kettle restaurant, Public Bikes, Sports Basement, City Carshare, and more!

Thurs Dec 8, 6 – 8 pm
SPUR penthouse, 4th floor
654 Mission St at New Montgomery
Free for Walk SF members
Not a member yet? Join now or at the door.
RSVP TODAY

Join us to celebrate Walk SF’s work to make San Francisco’s streets safer for you and your family every day. See you there!

Walk SF Mayoral Forum: Sept 12, 2011

elizabeth — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:24:49 +0000

Join your mayoral candidates to learn more about their positions on streets, parks, and other public spaces.

From Streets to Parks: Safer, Greener Public Space
A forum with San Francisco Mayoral Candidates
Moderated by John King,
urban design writer for the San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, September 12, 2011
6:00 – 8:00pm

455 Golden Gate, Milton Marks Auditorium

Pose your own questions: Questions for the candidates will be selected from questions you suggest when you RSVP.

Walk San Francisco, the Neighborhood Parks Council, San Francisco Parks Trust, and Friends of the Urban Forest are coming together to host the first mayoral candidate forum that focuses specifically on the public realm. Together we can ensure that a strong voice for a greener, more walkable city is elected into City Hall.

Support safe speeds around SF schools!

elizabeth — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:20:01 +0000

Help Walk SF make San Francisco the first big city in the state to create safer school zones!

We are excited to announce the first step toward 15-mph zones around all San Francisco schools!

The first 100 new school zones have been mapped by the Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA), which has requested funding from the County Transportation Authority (TA). On June 28, the Authority’s board – also known as the Board of Supervisors – will vote on that request.

Come on out to support safe speeds around SF schools! Or if you can’t make the meeting, email your Supervisor.

TA Board / Board of Supervisors meeting
Tuesday June 28, 11am
City Hall Room 250

And mark your calendar for SFMTA’s public hearing on the locations of the first new school zones:

SFMTA public hearing
Friday July 1, 10am
City Hall Room 416

Speak up for a two-way Haight Street!

elizabeth — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:16:46 +0000

Update: see the Streetsblog story

SFMTA is proposing to fix the one-way block of Haight Street between Octavia and Gough, where Haight meets Market. The proposed project will make conditions safer for pedestrians by improving the three-way Haight-Gough-Market intersection and will speed up public transit by allowing buses to travel more directly along Haight, both ways. This is a good example of how our city can live up to its transit-first pedestrian-priority charter!

Support a two-way Haight at the meeting tonight or by emailing britt.tanner[at]sfmta.com.

Monday, June 20
6:15pm Open House
6:30 – 7:30pm Meeting
One South Van Ness (at Market St.), 2nd floor Atrium

Questions? Call SFMTA at 415-701-4685

Get involved with pedestrian advocacy in May

Josh — Thu, 19 May 2011 02:51:12 +0000

There are some great events surrounding pedestrian advocacy coming up in May! Check out how you can get involved:

Continue Support for a Safe Masonic
Better Market Street Workshops
Learn to Audit the Street
Please Take the National Walking Survey

Continue Support for a Safer Masonic

Thanks to everyone who wrote in and came to Friday’s hearing to speak up for the “boulevard” option on Masonic Avenue — it was approved! This redesign will narrow the street to calm traffic, widen sidewalks at bus stops, install tree-planted medians, and improve crossings. It goes next to the MTA Board.

This plan could dramatically improve the safety of the notoriously dangerous street, where just last week 61-year-old James Hudson was killed. In addition to supporting the redesign, Walk SF is advocating for more law enforcement to protect pedestrians in the near term to continue the important work around Masonic we kickstarted in 2008.

Better Market Street Workshops, May 17 and 24

Walk SF held a workshop on Market Street in January — now the city is holding two more to get ideas about how to revitalize Market Street from Octavia to the Embarcadero. The goal of the project is ambitious: to reestablish the street as the premier cultural, civic and economic center of San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Share and discuss your ideas with urban designers and transit, bike, and pedestrian mobility experts. How can we make the backbone of our city into a place that is green, welcoming, lively, and easy to get around?

Workshops:
Tuesday May 17, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
The Warfield, 982 Market Street at 6th

Tuesday May 24, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Hotel Whitcomb, 1231 Market Street at 8th

Can’t attend the workshops? Sign up for a webinar at www.bettermarketstreetsf.org

Webinars:
Thursday, May 19, 12 – 1 p.m.
Wednesday May 25, 12 – 1p.m.

Learn to Audit the Street, May 21 and 25

See the street in a whole new way! The San Francisco Department of Public Health has created a new and improved Pedestrian Environmental Quality Index (PEQI). At this workshop, participants will learn about the PEQI tool, then spend the afternoon collecting data about SF streets. The data will be used to refine the tool and participants will learn to become sharp-eyed advocates for better pedestrian conditions.

Saturday May 21, 9:00am – 2:30pm
1390 Market Street, San Francisco, CA

Wednesday May 25, 9:00am – 2:30pm
1390 Market Street, San Francisco, CA

RSVP at http://gopeds.eventbrite.com/

Please Take the National Walking Survey

America Walks has created a short survey to learn more about our walking habits. It’s anonymous and will just take 5 minutes.

Take the survey!

The results will help walking advocates understand what motivates avid walkers, and what keeps others from walking more. Thanks for participating!

Member Meeting (and Greeting): Thurs Dec 9, 6-8pm

elizabeth — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:12:58 +0000

Walk San Francisco’s Annual Member Meeting (and Greeting)
Thursday December 9, 6-8 pm
SPUR Penthouse, 654 Mission Street at New Montgomery, 4th floor

Special guest speakers:

State Senator Mark Leno
SF Board of Supervisors President David Chiu

Join us to meet with fellow members, our new executive director, and our board. At this informal gathering, we’ll have brief updates on Walk SF’s work over the last year and what we see coming in the next year, and plenty of time to chat. This is an opportunity to get together to celebrate our successes in 2010, and look ahead to how we can improve and explore our city in 2011.

The event is free for members.

RSVP now

Not a member, or not sure if you are? Not a problem! You can join at the door, or join online now.

See you on the 9th!

Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee Meets June 8th

jamie — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:20:41 +0000

Please consider attending the next Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee meeting on June 8th starting at 5:30pm in City Hall (1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place) in Room 408. This meeting will feature Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, M.D., Director of Environmental Health at the San Francisco Department of Public Health presenting “Safe Walking: An Environmental
Right or a Utopian Fantasy?”

Click on image below for a larger copy of the flyer.

Annual Meeting on October 6th

jamie — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:04:19 +0000

Walk San Francisco Annual Meeting – RSVP Online
Please join your Walk San Francisco friends at our annual meeting on

Tuesday, October 6th
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
SPUR’s beautiful new Urban Center
654 Mission Street (between 2nd & 3rd)

We’ll have Amit Ghosh, the Deputy Director of Planning from the MTA to tell us about plans for pedestrian improvements here in the City.

We truly hope you’ll join us for this once-a-year event so that we can get reacquainted and talk about our objectives.

Pizza and soft drinks will be served. Please RSVP by Sunday, October 4th, so that we know how much food to order.

Improve Masonic Ave. Meeting or Mission Streetscape and Cesar Chavez Street Workshops – May 28th Meetings

jamie — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:09:03 +0000

Please note that these and other upcoming events of interest to pedestrian safety advocates are listed on the Walk San Francisco Calendar at www.walksf.org/events

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Get Involved in Improving Masonic Avenue, Meeting on May 28th
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As part of our efforts to advocate for changes to the Masonic corridor, we are conducting a survey of residents and users of Masonic Ave. and surrounding streets. This survey gives us valuable information to further advocate for changes on Masonic. If you live or work in the area or even if you like to stroll through the Panhandle and have concerns with the Fell/Masonic or Oak/Masonic intersections, please fill out the survey at http://www.walksf.org/fixmasonic.

Also, the Fix Masonic Coalition will be hosting a community stakeholder meeting on Wednesday, May 28 at the City College John Adams Campus (Hayes and Masonic) from 6:00-8:00pm. We will be previewing draft designs of a re-designed Fell Masonic intersection, as well as plans for the Fulton and Masonic intersection. Your input is welcomed, as we work together to make Masonic Avenue safer for cyclists, pedestrians and
transit riders.

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Mission Streetscape and Cesar Chavez Street Workshops, May 28
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Help the City define a vision and strategy to make the Mission’s streets, alleys, and sidewalks the safe and enjoyable places they deserve to be!

Wednesday, 5/28
Cesar Chavez Elementary School
825 Shotwell (at 22nd Street) – in the Auditorium

6:30-6:45 Welcome
6:45-7:45 Mission Streetscape Plan
7:45-8:00 Break with Refreshments
8:00-8:45 Cesar Chavez Street Design

Childcare is provided!

http://missionstreets.sfplanning.org
http://cesarchavez.sfplanning.org

For more information, and to be added to the e-mail lists:

MISSION STREETSCAPE PLAN
missionstreetscape@sfgov.org
415.558.6383 or 415.575.9086
http://missionstreets.sfplanning.org

CESAR CHAVEZ STREET DESIGN
cesarchavez@sfgov.org | 415.558.6384
http://cesarchavez.sfplanning.org