Walking San Francisco’s 49 Mile Scenic Drive
SF’s historic, 49 mile loop around the City has been reinvented as a walking adventure! Join us in walking the city’s historic 49 Mile Scenic Drive in chunks over the course of nine months, [...]
Walk & Roll to School Day
Kids, Parents, Schools… Join the Fun! On October 2, 2019, thousands of kids at schools across San Francisco will walk, scoot, and bicycle to school as part of International Walk & Roll [...]
Press Release: Crash on Market Marks 15th Person Killed While Walking or Biking This Year; Double as Same Time Last Year
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 11, 2019 CONTACT: Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director, Walk SF, jodie@walksf.org, 415-596-1580 (cell) Marta Lindsey, Communications Manager, Walk SF, [...]
Two ways you can turn up the heat on city leaders to make our streets safer
We are reeling from these past weeks of one after another traffic death. We have now lost 14 pedestrians and one bicyclist to traffic violence in 2019. The City needs to do whatever it takes to [...]
Press Release: Child hit while crossing the street in the Tenderloin yesterday; ‘Enough is enough’
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 11, 2019 CONTACT: Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director, Walk SF, jodie@walksf.org, 415-596-1580 (cell) Marta Lindsey, Communications Manager, Walk SF, [...]
How our new board members want to transform San Francisco’s streets
Five fabulous folks just joined Walk San Francisco’s board of directors: Scott Blanks with LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired; Peter Gallotta with San Francisco Department of [...]
State of Emergency Action
State of Emergency for Traffic Safety Ask your Supervisor to sign onto the resolution for a state of emergency As of late July, fourteen people have died while walking and biking in our city. [...]
It’s time to look at how trucks are creating unsafe streets in San Francisco
This piece was published as an op-ed in the Bay City Beacon on July 22, 2019. Just minutes before I sat down to write this, I had an all-too-familiar experience. As I approached the intersection [...]