Soft-hit posts aren’t enough on Valencia

Posted on by Malcolm Jaramillo

When the SFMTA confirmed their only design option for the Valencia Street pilot, we knew that the center-running bike lane could only be successful if the SFMTA committed to using physical barriers that are stronger and safer than soft-hit posts. After further discussion with the SFMTA, we now know that the SF Fire Department is restricting this design to not allow the stronger infrastructure that we have been advocating for, like K71 bollards, tire stops, and armadillos to keep cars out of the bike lane. Soft-hit posts are not enough to protect people biking, and for this reason, we must oppose the Valencia pilot design. 

While the SF Fire Department has a responsibility to make sure that their emergency vehicles can respond to calls without excessive impediment, safety infrastructure like wider bollards and armadillos do not impede emergency vehicles, as has been shown in cities like Los Angeles. We call on the SFMTA and SFFD to come together and conduct collaborative tests of these more effective materials, to confirm that they are safe for emergency vehicles while increasing safety for daily road users. Moving past this current stalemate will improve safety not just on Valencia, but on all protected bike lanes across the city.

Valencia Street has a variety of different needs and use cases — from folks living along the corridor, merchants, church-goers, and people passing through. Designing streets for the future of SF takes collaboration, discussion, strong outreach, and new solutions. Our role as bike and safety advocates is to ensure that the needs of communities and the safety of people biking on our streets are held in harmony with one another. Streets built together and not in opposition with one another will be stronger, more equitable and accessible, and long-lasting. 

The center-running bike lane is new to us, but it does solve many current safety issues on Valencia Street by mitigating curb use and loading outside of the bike lane. However, this design, with only soft-hit posts as a barrier, does not meet the criteria of creating greater safety for people biking.

Quick-build projects are a way for the SFMTA to install quick, life-saving infrastructure to protect people on our streets. The SF Fire Department and SFMTA must come together to agree on materials that prioritize both the safety of people riding their bikes every day as well as people experiencing acute, though hopefully rare, emergencies.

Write a letter to the SF Fire Department and SFMTA right now to let them know that greater protection is needed in order to protect people biking on Valencia.

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Valencia Bike Lane Designs Need your Feedback

Posted on by Malcolm Jaramillo

Long-awaited improvements are in the works for the Valencia corridor. The SFMTA is holding open houses from September 16-30 to allow folks to give feedback on their new proposed bike lane designs.

As of right now, there is no physical protection for people biking on Valencia Street passed 15th Streets. The SFMTA’s new proposal would provide protected access via a center running bike lane along the street from 15th to 24th streets, as well as various curb management improvements to improve loading along the street.

Starting out as an 18-month pilot, this center-running bike lane would be the first of its kind in the city. While this type of design is new, what is most important to us is that this bike lane is built with permanent physical protection to protect people biking from vehicle traffic. In order to ensure that these plans fit the context of Valencia and its myriad of uses, feedback and engagement from the public is crucial.

Along with the open house, there will be in person office hours on Wednesday, September 28th for folks to weigh in. If you want to attend you can RSVP here. . To see all the ways you can plug in, visit the project page. After the open house has closed, SFMTA will consolidate all feedback and improve on the designs if necessary. For any other questions feel free to reach out to mjaramillo@sfbike.org

Show Your Support for East Side Spot Improvements at the Hairball

Posted on by Malcolm Jaramillo

Update: the hearing has been moved to 12/2.

Nestled in the Southeastern part of San Francisco, the Hairball is a tangle of roads, highway ramps, and overpasses, mixed with pedestrian and bike paths running underneath. These paths serve as some of the only direct connections for people biking between Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights, the Mission, the Portola District, and the Bayview. However, critical improvements are needed throughout the Hairball so that folks in the Southeastern neighborhoods have safe and enjoyable ways to move across the city.

In an attempt to untangle the Hairball, The San Francisco Department of Public Works launched a project back in 2019 to improve a major pedestrian connection on the westbound side of Cesar Chavez. Last year, the path was reopened after a long-awaited refurbishment. Now, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is working to give the bike lanes that lead in and out of the eastbound section some much needed attention.

The proposed improvements to the eastbound section will upgrade the existing bike lanes at the intersections of Marin Street and Bayshore Blvd east, Highway 101 and Cesar Chavez, and Vermont Street and the highway 101 onramp. The bike lanes will upgrade from class III painted lanes, to class IV fully protected lanes that will add visibility and protection for bikers, but we’ll need your support to ensure these proposed designs are approved.

On Thursday, September 29, these plans will be heading to an engineering hearing for a vote. If they pass, they will be implemented later this year, and be ready for commuters to use in 2023. Make a plan to call into this public hearing and show your support for the eastbound improvements, and help improve these critical bike connections in the Southeastern part of our city. Learn more about how to call in and provide public comment. If you have any questions you can reach out to mjaramillo@sfbike.org.

Free adaptive bike rentals now in Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway

Posted on by Rachel Clyde

Free adaptive bicycle rentals have arrived in our car-free spaces! The SFMTA and Rec and Parks Department have partnered with Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program (BORP) – a local nonprofit that provides and promotes recreation activities for people with disabilities – to permanently provide rentable adaptive cycles for people to use in our parks.

BORP sets up in Golden Gate Park on the first and third Saturday of the month behind the Bandshell. On the second and fourth Saturday of the month, they set up on the Great Highway at Judah. Hours of operation for both locations are 1-4pm. 

The program will operate on a reservation-only system to ensure that there is a correct number and type of adaptive cycles available. If you or someone you know is interested in renting one of their many adaptive bicycles or tricycles, be sure to call (510-848-2930) or email (cycling@borp.org) BORP to make your reservation in advance. 

This program is the result of a pilot program that the City conducted in 2021 that was incredibly successful, and participants were very enthusiastic about seeing it continue. 

Access to adaptive cycles supports the health and independence of everyone looking to get rolling in our parks. Leo Siecienski, the program manager, shared that this opportunity is not only beneficial to the people who use the adaptive cycles. It is also a great way to build community, learn compassion and empathy, and provide everyone the opportunity to get around and recreate carbon-free.

Want to get involved? BORP needs volunteers for their Saturday shifts to help people adjust their cycles and join them along their rides. This is a great opportunity to meet your community and encourage folks to see Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway on an adaptive bike. If you’re interested in volunteering, reach out to cycling@borp.org or subscribe to our biweekly volunteer newsletter to stay up to date on all future volunteer opportunities through this program and more! 

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Centering Equity in a Permanent Slow Streets Program

Posted on by Christopher White

Update as of 9/29: The vote has been moved up to Dec 6.
Update as of 9/16: The vote has been moved up to October 14th.
Update: The vote has been moved up to October 4th.
On September 20th, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Board of Directors will be deciding the future of Slow Streets. This is our chance to not only make the program permanent, but expand its scope so that every SF neighborhood can enjoy these people-first spaces to bike, roll, and walk on. Your San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is working alongside advocates and partner organizations to ensure that the proposed program is effectively designed so that it has overwhelming support to pass. To get there, we must make sure that the program is implemented equitably, centers street safety, and connects communities, taking into account all the needs, desires, and lived realities of the people who live in all our communities.

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The current program has seen great successes in some SF neighborhoods, but has fallen short of these ideals in others. Some low-income, predominantly Black, Indigenous, People Of Color (BIPOC) communities, such as the SoMa, had to fight for months to get Slow Streets on which to safely distance. In the Southeast neighborhoods, Slow Streets were implemented without enough outreach or community input — and they were unsuccessful due to lack of local support. The Tenderloin never got them at all. All of these areas also have a large number of streets on the High-Injury Network, the streets in SF with the greatest incidence of serious traffic injuries. If the program continues to fail these neighborhoods, it will fail in building a more accessible and equitable San Francisco. 

To better understand and implement the diverse priorities of all these neighborhoods, we’re part of a working group of organizations representing the senior and disability communities, safe streets advocates, and community-based organizations from Bayview-Hunters Point, the Excelsior, and the Tenderloin. This group is developing recommendations for the SFMTA to incorporate into its program proposal. 

To make sure our recommendations consider the nuance and diversity of opinion within those communities, we’re also reaching out to other neighborhood groups across the city to provide context and ask questions, listening hard to what their members want to see in their neighborhoods. We’ve already held listening sessions with groups in the Excelsior, SoMa, and the Tenderloin, and we’re currently setting up more. We’ll bring what we hear from these groups back to the working group and advocate for these points of view to deeply inform our recommendations. 

Already we’re hearing important perspectives. Some community leaders, while wanting safer, slower streets, expressed frustration with a history of city agencies constantly making plans on behalf of communities, rather than inviting them in as invaluable collaborators, highlighting the need for improved outreach and engagement by the SFMTA, as well as a cooperative approach with historically marginalized communities. Several groups have emphasized that simply closing streets to through traffic would be a hard sell with their constituents — but that replacing vehicle traffic with activities or programming that benefits the local community would be much more welcomed. 

In the coming weeks, we’ll share more about the recommendations that emerge from the Slow Streets working group. And the conversations won’t end there — through September 20 and after, we will keep engaging with our members and other city residents to continue deepening our understanding and advocacy around Slow Streets. Together, we can shape a future where every neighborhood in our city has people-centered streets that suit their specific needs and desires, and are activated in a way that brings everyone joy. Slow Streets are how we can make this future happen. 

We need support from you, our members, to keep this conversation going and help shape the vision for an ongoing Slow Streets program. Sign up for Slow Streets alerts to learn more about how you can weigh in and support permanent and equitable Slow Streets.

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The road to a permanent network of Slow Streets

Posted on by Christopher White

photo credit: SFMTA

Update as of 9/28: The vote has been moved up to Dec 6.

Slow Streets across San Francisco provide not just safer routes for people biking, rolling, and walking. They’re places for communities to gather, find joy, and activate our biggest shared civic space — our streets. While these spaces were created as a part of the pandemic, what if we were able to make them permanent fixtures of SF life? On September 20, we have the opportunity to evolve this program from a temporary, emergency solution to an ongoing program — and to make sure it serves all the city’s neighborhoods, especially in underserved communities.

Outside of the few existing permanent corridors, the current Slow Streets program is part of the COVID-19 State of Emergency orders. This program is authorized to continue for 120 days past the lifting of the State of Emergency, which could happen any time at the Mayor’s discretion. If it were lifted and no action were taken, existing Slow Streets would revert to their previous states, often with high speeds and high traffic. Now that we know how fruitful these community and people-first spaces can be, we cannot accept a future where San Francisco no longer has Slow Streets.

Up until now, the only way to seek permanence for a Slow Street required neighbors and the SFMTA to gain approval street-by-street — a grueling and slow-moving effort. Now, the SFMTA is hoping to make this process more efficient by passing an ongoing, more clearly defined program that allows the creation of a citywide network of permanent Slow Streets, as well as establishing the criteria and process for accepting permanent Slow Streets in the future. This new approach, if done right, could impact the whole city and rapidly accelerate the transformation of street space. 

So, we are focusing our organizing efforts on shaping the vision for the program, ensuring the process is equitable and involves robust community involvement, and getting it approved. Our timeline to get it right is short — the agency hopes to present the program for approval at the September 20 SFMTA Board meeting.

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Here’s what we know so far about what the proposed permanent Slow Street’s program will look like:

The SFMTA’s approach will be to focus on a set of specific outcomes that the program aims to achieve on included streets. In particular, the SFMTA wants to set goals to lower the average speed and the maximum number of vehicle trips taken on Slow Streets. If approved, the program will have the freedom to try out designs to achieve these outcomes, without needing every design to endure another lengthy, contentious approval process. Instead, designs can be tried, assessed, and changed until the outcomes are met.

In the initial proposal, SFMTA staff will propose a set of the current Slow Streets to include in the permanent program. Part of the aim is to create a citywide network of interconnected, people-first streets that are safe and comfortable for all ages. The proposal will also include a process by which new streets can be added to the program, continuing to grow that network throughout the city. It’s imperative that the way these initial streets are chosen are thoughtful and serve neighborhoods in SF that are especially underserved in access to transit and open space.

In the coming weeks we will be pushing the SFMTA to design the best program possible. We want to see a Slow Streets network that creates more, consistently safer spaces for people biking, walking, and recreating — and we demand that the program be equitable in how it serves the city. To do so, we believe that it needs to:

  • Be responsive to local community input;
  • Serve all neighborhoods in the city, in locally appropriate and welcomed ways;
  • Consider not just transportation needs, but needs for open space in neighborhoods that are underserved by it;
  • Create a clear, community-friendly pathway for new streets to join the network, including funding for low-income neighborhoods to come together and pilot their own vision for a people-first street.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be having conversations with people and community groups across the city, to continue to better understand what different folks need from the program. While creating a program for a city as diverse and varied as San Francisco will be a challenge, this is a tremendous opportunity for a transformative change towards safer, more equitable, people-first streets.

September 20 will come fast. To get involved, sign up for Slow Streets alerts to ensure you hear all the new details as soon as we have them, and to learn more about how you can weigh in and support permanent Slow Streets.

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New designs are on the way for Valencia

Posted on by Malcolm Jaramillo

This time last year, the Valencia Street Improvement Project was on hold as the pandemic progressed, and the future of the street was uncertain. However, thanks to the work of the project team behind the improvements, the corridor is now on course to receive drastic and much needed updates to enhance safety for people biking and walking.

The project will address common challenges people face when biking by introducing protected bike lanes from 15th to 24th Streets, as well as improving curb management. Once approved, these designs will be implemented as an 18-month pilot program. After the pilot window has ended, the project team will evaluate the improvements and begin to propose next steps for the corridor.

As the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency (SFMTA) continues the outreach and design process through the month of August, it is crucial that your feedback is heard. There are a few ways that you can interface with city staff. First, in late September, SFMTA will host a virtual open house where the project team will present their working designs for improvements to the corridor. This will be an opportunity for merchants, residents, and advocates alike to come together and give feedback directly to the Valencia Project team on the proposed designs. Sign up for campaign updates to track when this open house takes place.

After comments from the open house are heard, the project will be revised according to the feedback. After this, it will be reviewed by the SFMTA Board of directors in the winter, where official public comment will take place. Comments will let the directors know how their constituents feel about the project, and will also be a chance for callers to give support.

Throughout this process, your support and feedback will directly impact the future of the Valencia corridor. Your engagement is a vital part of ensuring that the road is the safest it can be for all road users, and for the many businesses that call Valencia home.
To stay up to date with future opportunities make sure to sign up for campaign updates and, as always, you can reach out to the project team with questions and feedback at Valencia@SFMTA.com.

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Car-free JFK is going on the November ballot – here’s why

Posted on by Rachel Clyde

Opponents to the JFK promenade have introduced a measure for the November ballot that would undo car-free JFK, the Great Highway weekend promenade, and all other car-free spaces in Golden Gate Park. So what does this mean for the future of car-free spaces in SF?

After securing car-free JFK in late April, powerful opponents began working on an ordinance to undo all of our hard work. The Access for All campaign collected over 17,000 signatures in three weeks to get their measure in front of voters. We have yet to see if they have the 9,000 valid signatures needed, but it’s very likely since they submitted nearly double that. The “Access for All Ordinance,” as the ballot measure is called in its submission, is backed by the Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums and Open the Great Highway Alliance.

The implications of this ballot measure go beyond just car-free JFK. The ballot language details that the Great Highway will have car traffic 24/7 in both directions permanently. This includes the extension between Sloat and Skyline, which is already scheduled to be closed permanently due to climate change and beach erosion in 2023. This is part of the Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation Plan and was set in motion years ago. Not only will we no longer have car-free space on the Great Highway, but further maintenance of this road due to climate change and beach erosion will take a large financial toll on city resources.

The language also states that the other car-free spaces in Golden Gate Park will be reopened to traffic —  meaning we will lose the car-free western portion of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive as well. This is a crucial piece of a Beach-to-Bay car-free connection that allows people to cross the city safely. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution in October 2021 urging the SFMTA and Rec and Park to make improvements to Golden Gate Park so that the city could achieve this Beach-to-Bay connection.

The good news is, in response to the Access For All measure, Supervisors Mandelman, Melgar, Ronen, and Dorsey submitted their own counter ballot measure that will codify the April 26 vote to make car-free JFK permanent. 

There are two ways the battle between these measures can play out in favor of preserving car-free space in SF. First, if the anti-car-free measure gets less than 50% voter approval and the Supervisors’ measure gets more than 50% voter approval. This would make the JFK Promenade city code. Second, if the anti-car-free measure gets over 50% voter approval, but the Supervisors’ measure gets a higher approval, it will cancel out the other and JFK Promenade will become city code. 

Last Monday, July 18, the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee brought us closer to achieving this by approving the counter measure to codify the car-free spaces in Golden Gate Park. Additionally they approved a ballot measure for November that would repeal the infamous Prop J and allow the City to operate and manage the parking garage below the Music Concourse instead of the Concourse Authority, an independent nonprofit board. Then, the SFMTA will be able to lower the parking rate and make the garage more affordable and accessible for people with disabilities and seniors.

Be ready to vote and rally your friends in November. And, every dollar given today will support our work as we prepare for the November election and fight to make our streets safer and more accessible.

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We’re Hiring a Director of Development

Posted on by San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Position Summary

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is thrilled to announce an opening for our next Director of Development (DoD) to lead us in crafting and implementing a dynamic, multilayered development strategy. This is a highly collaborative position supported by a skilled staff and board who will work in close partnership with the DoD to achieve our collective vision, revenue, and membership goals. 

About the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition was founded in 1971 by a group of activists representing a coalition of environmental and neighborhood groups and is one of the oldest bicycle advocacy groups in the nation. For over 50 years, the SF Bicycle Coalition has furthered its mission – to transform San Francisco’s streets and neighborhoods into safe, just, and livable places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation – through its grassroots political organizing and broadening civic engagement. With its dual 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) structure and $2.5 million annual budget, SF Bicycle Coalition has grown to add community-based programs to expand access to bicycles, education programs on safe biking practices, and partnerships with other transit-focused organizations.

The Role 

Reporting to and in partnership with the Executive Director, the DoD will spearhead development and membership efforts as the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition continues to deepen and grow its impact and reach. While the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has established diverse revenue streams and healthy finances, opportunities exist for even greater growth and diversification of our revenue and membership base. The DoD will play a leading role in designing, guiding, and supporting the execution of a comprehensive development strategy to facilitate achievement of annual revenue and membership goals. 

The DoD will bring to this work excellent donor and funder cultivation and project management skills; a creative, optimistic approach; and significant experience in supporting organizational sustainability and growth. 

Our ideal candidate will be mission-aligned, sharing our core values of transportation justice, sustainability, people power, and joy. They’ll be excited by the opportunity to engage with us in our work to center the voices and needs of those most harmed by inequitable transportation and infrastructure decisions.

Key Responsibilities

The DoD will craft, guide, and oversee the implementation of a multilayered annual revenue and membership development plan to maintain and increase annual operating funds towards greater impact, growth, and sustainability. 

The DoD will guide and oversee the work of two talented managers (development and membership), and will be supported by a professional events contractor as needed. The DoD will ensure that direct reports and their teams have opportunities to develop their skills and capacities while also promoting practices that support individual wellness and retention. 

The DoD is a key member of our Directors team. The Directors team facilitates shared knowledge and team cohesion, development of practices and policies that support organizational efficacy and alignment as well as staff wellness and retention. 

Fund Development Activities and Strategy  

  • Review and analyze the efficacy and efficiency of existing fundraising activities; bring a fresh lens to the work. 
  • Drive the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of new and existing major donors and grants. Manage the assignment of prospects and partners to ensure that fundraising activity is well-considered, distributed, and coordinated.
  • Identify, cultivate, and steward new opportunities and relationships with individual donors, potential foundations, business partners, and others. 
  • Review, strengthen and oversee sponsorship programs. Manage sponsorship campaigns for events to meet or exceed budgeted fundraising goals. Build rapport with sponsorship partners, write appeals, and ensure stewardship for contributions in partnership with the communications team.
  • Determine best ways for the executive director, board members and key staff to plug into development and membership cultivation campaigns and activities; orient staff to practices that build their confidence and capacity as fund-raisers.
  • Develop materials for donor cultivation and fundraising campaigns, in collaboration with our marketing and communications team.
  • Ensure effective workflow; ensure CRM and Salesforce tools and data are used consistently and effectively.
  • Evaluate fundraising and membership development strategies to measure return on investment; utilize data to improve and/or build on key activities; and produce fundraising dashboards and reports. 
  • Oversee planning of three annual signature events with support from a professional events contractor, key staff, and volunteers. 
  • Attend and participate in meetings and events geared toward networking with donors, members, small businesses, and foundations. 

Membership Development

  • Establish and oversee the implementation of strategic activities and campaigns that focus on membership retention and growth with a focus on building an organization whose membership better reflects San Francisco’s demographics.
  • Support the team in stewarding members to renew at higher rates, become monthly givers, and/or become major donors through thoughtful, targeted relationship building and direct cultivation of gifts.
  • Introduce and experiment with new ideas and approaches to membership growth, retention, and engagement. 

Staff Management and Agency-Wide Collaboration

  • Invest in and nurture the development of direct reports through thoughtful coaching and supervision; identify leadership and growth opportunities and support the coordination, development, and efficacy of the membership and development team.
  • Collaborate with staff across the organization on the alignment and implementation of revenue and membership growth activities. 
  • Serve as a member of the Directors team providing high-level input on organizational needs, challenges, and opportunities.
  • Contribute to our culture of teamwork to ensure our collective success. 

Experience and Qualifications of Our Ideal Candidate. While no one person will embody every quality, our ideal candidate will bring many of the qualifications and attributes listed below:

  • A strong commitment to the SF Bicycle Coalition’s mission and core values of transportation justice, sustainability, people power, and joy. 
  • Significant experience in leading successful highly collaborative development and membership teams and campaigns.
  • Prior experience engaging members, donors, and other funders who represent a wide range of giving capacities. 
  • A team-builder able to thoughtfully engage, support, and develop people and teams of varied backgrounds and experience levels with grace and skill.
  • Well-developed organizational skills with the ability to think creatively and flexibly. 
  • Ease with CRM and Salesforce or related programs; experience developing and presenting data and dashboards.
  • Commitment to contributing to a collaborative organizational culture that encourages healthy work-life balance. 
  • Grant writing and grants management experience is a plus. 
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Willingness to travel locally and work occasional evenings and weekends.

Commitment to Equity and Justice

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition acknowledges the harm biking culture and unequal access to transportation have inflicted upon underserved communities — especially people of color, people with disabilities, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and people with LGBTQ+ identities. We believe that these communities must be centered as leaders in the work we do; therefore, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities.

Compensation: The starting annual salary range for this exempt position is $95,000 – $115,000 depending upon relevancy of experience. Full-time benefits include medical, vision, and dental insurance; 10 days paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays and 3 weeks PTO annually, with PTO accruals increasing in subsequent years. Other benefits include a telecommuting stipend, a flexible work arrangement policy, and 100% match of an employee’s contribution to their 401K up to 3% of an employee’s annual salary.

Location: Hybrid — San Francisco Bay Area. Staff and their supervisors will work together to determine the appropriate work arrangement based on the nature of the individual’s role, and in alignment with organizational policies and departmental needs and activities. We strive to be as flexible and fair as possible while ensuring in-person accessibility when needed to interface with our volunteers, membership, community, and each other.

To Apply: Submit your resume and a thoughtful cover letter, which includes where you heard about the position, that addresses your alignment with our mission and values; why you are moved to apply; relevant experience you would bring to this role; and how you actualize equity and justice values in your work.

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Community Based Transportation Plan in Vis Valley and Portola is entering Phase Two

Posted on by Malcolm Jaramillo

In the later part of 2021, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) wrapped up the first phase of a process to create a Community Based Transportation Plan, or CBTP. Through outreach with residents, community organizations, and the supervisor offices, this process aims to create a comprehensive list of traffic calming and transit improvements to both Visitacion Valley and the Portola District. The project is now in Phase Two, and SFMTA needs your feedback on the proposed set of changes they have put forward based on what they heard during phase one.

There are a few ways that you can give feedback! The project team will be attending a slew of events in both neighborhoods until the end of July, a full list is available here! Head out and connect with your neighbors and be sure to let SFMTA know what they did right, and what they missed. Along with this, a survey is live in which you can provide feedback on the proposed improvements. As the process moves forward, we need your input to ensure the CBTP is reflective of the traffic safety concerns that local residents have. After Phase Two closes out, Phase Three will begin to solidify traffic safety projects to be implemented, and the draft CBTP will go before the SFMTA Board of supervisors for approval in 2023.

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We are looking forward to this process and are excited to see a comprehensive plan that addresses these neighborhoods’ transportation needs. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to mjaramillo@sfbike.org.