2024 was one of the most momentous elections in recent history, both here in San Francisco and nationally. As a 501(c)(4), the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition makes political endorsements, helping to ensure San Francisco is a better place to live, work, and bike*. Read more about our Bike The Vote process here!
This year, once our full slate was announced, your SF Bicycle Coalition worked tirelessly in the weeks leading up to the election to mobilize for the causes and candidates we knew would prioritize sustainability, transportation justice, and making our streets safer for everyone who bikes and rolls (or wants to!) in SF. Along with our dedicated members, we hosted canvassing and door knocking events almost every weekend for nearly two months!
Now that all the ballots are counted and the results are in, we’re pleased that several of our endorsed Board of Supervisor candidates will be taking office, or continuing in their roles, in January.
Danny Sauter, District 3 Supervisor-Elect
We were pleased to see former Board member Danny Sauter launch his campaign for District 3 Supervisor, and proud to help lead mobilizations for his campaign. Danny worked hard to show the strength of his commitment to this movement through his questionnaire, and showed a remarkable knowledge of his district’s bike network gaps, as well as ideas as to how to fix them. He’s a proven leader in bicycle advocacy and we’re looking forward to working closely with his office to make biking and rolling better in the crucial neighborhoods that make up D3, including Chinatown, North Beach, the Financial District and Embarcadero, and Nob Hill.
Bilal Mahmood, District 5 Supervisor-Elect
Our Board dual-endorsed Bilal for his strong ideas about sustainable transportation, and his understanding of the crucial needs of the Tenderloin, a neighborhood with low car ownership and high residential density which has historically had some of the most dangerous intersections in the city. We’re hoping now that he’s supervisor-elect, we can work with him on continuing to strengthen east-west bike corridors in D5 and create more car-free spaces for biking, rolling and walking.
Myrna Melgar, District 7 Supervisor
You’d be hard-pressed to find a bike champion as dedicated and steadfast as Myrna in City Hall, and she more than earned our enthusiastic endorsement for re-election based on her unwavering support for car-free, family friendly and joyful spaces throughout her tenure, from her staunch support of the Frida Kahlo Quick Build, to her championing Prop K and our new Ocean Beach park. We know she’ll continue to be a strong ally for a growing bike movement in her district, and we’re excited to keep partnering with her this term and seeing the results of her hard work.
Jackie Fielder, District 9 Supervisor
Our Board was impressed with Jackie’s thoughtful, thorough transportation plan, and we’re confident that as a Mission resident who doesn’t own a car and primarily takes public transit and bike share, Jackie understands how crucial it is to make sure District 9 is well represented in an ambitious and robust Biking and Rolling Plan. She argued for consistent protected lanes citywide in her questionnaire, and understands how corridors like the 17th Street, which she’d like to see fully protected, can incentivize more biking and rolling in District 9. We’re confident she’ll be an active transportation ally on the Board of Supervisors.
City governance is crucially important when it comes to making our streets better. Our members know that spending time talking to their Supervisors, and advocating for better bike infrastructure and policies in their neighborhoods, is a powerful demonstration of the efficacy of our advocacy work. In the next few months, as these Supervisors take or continue in office, we’re laser-focused on making sure they all support SF CYCLES, our campaign for a visionary and ambitious Biking and Rolling Plan, including connecting Supervisors directly to their own constituents among our members!
Sign up today for our SF CYCLES campaign and don’t miss your chance to make your voice heard in City Hall with our new cohort of public servants.
*In election years, as a 501(c)4, we send candidate questionnaires to candidates running for office, and our members weigh in on our endorsement process, helping to guide our voting slate, ultimately decided by Board of Directors, a 15-person body that is directly elected by our membership. (The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund is a distinct 501(c)(3) entity that operates most of our engagement and programmatic work.)
