Vote Yes on B for Safer Streets

Yes on B! Prop B includes over $70 million for pedestrian safety improvements: wider sidewalks, “road diets” to calm traffic, new curb ramps for wheelchairs and strollers, and more.

Why a bond? These improvements are exactly the kind of permanent infrastructure investments that are an appropriate use of bond funding. Prop B will make … Read More

Today: SF's First Safer School Zone!

Note the "1" pasted over the "2" to take the speed limit down 10mph!

Huge step forward today for safer streets!

This morning, Walk San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee, and city department heads announced an initiative to help kids walk to school: New 15-mile-per-hour speed zones going up … Read More

Walk SF Mayoral Forum: Sept 12, 2011

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

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Support safe speeds around SF schools!

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 … Read More

Speak up for a two-way Haight Street!

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 … Read More