FW: Sunday Streets Fifth Year Anniversary Celebration Invitation

[steve vanderlip]

 

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To: MayorE...@sfgov.org
Subject: Sunday Streets Fifth Year Anniversary Celebration Invitation
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 18:02:56 -0700
From: MayorE...@sfgov.org



Mayor Edwin M. Lee
together with
Supervisor David Campos
Supervisor Scott Wiener
the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Livable City and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

kindly request the pleasure of your company
at a celebration
with City and community partners
on the occasion of the

Fifth Year Anniversary of Sunday Streets

Sunday, June 3, 2012
2:00 p.m.

Brava Theatre
2781-24th Street
Between York and Hampshire Streets
City of San Francisco
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Featuring remarks by:
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
Gil Peñalosa, Executive Director of 8-80 Cities

Light refreshments will be served

A “behind the scenes” walking tour of
Sunday Streets in the Mission will immediately follow the program
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Kindly RSVP by May 30^that: http://bit.ly/Kshn5w
For questions, please call Dani Simons at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition at 415-431-2453 X 320

About the Event

Sunday Streets and “open streets” events across the country have roots in a program called Ciclovia that started in Bogotá, Colombia over thirty years ago. Today there are over 70 of this type of event across North America, which temporarily close streets to automobile traffic, opening them up for people to walk, bike, play, dance and socialize.

Gil Peñalosa, as Bogotá’s Commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation in the late 1990s, revamped the Ciclovia program, transforming it into an internationally recognized weekly program which attracts over 1.3 million to people walk, run, skate and bike along 75 miles of Bogotá’s city streets. Today he is an international leader in creating great cities through active public spaces.

San Francisco is a national leader in the “open streets” movement. Sunday Streets was one of the first of its kind in the U.S. when it began in 2008, and today we host events with more frequency than nearly any other city in the country.

Sunday Streets has proven wildly popular with the public, beneficial to local businesses, and has opened up access to healthy, free physical activity to tens of thousands of people each year. The program is a public-private partnership that has been able to accomplish all of this at a fraction of what it would have cost to build a new park or greenway.

Together, Mayor Lee and Gil Peñalosa will join with local partners to celebrate five great years of Sunday Streets and inspire us to think about what’s next for San Francisco and the entire Bay Area. We look forward to sharing our experiences with our neighbors from across the Bay Area.


PLEASE NOTE: The event will take place on the route of Sunday Streets, so we encourage you to arrive by bike, foot, or BART (24th Street / Mission station is several blocks away). Sunday Streets runs 11 am – 4 pm. For more information, including the complete route, visit www.sundaystreetssf.com.

RSVP: Space is limited. Please RSVP on this page: http://bit.ly/Kshn5wby May 30th.  

Questions: Call Dani Simons at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition at 415-431-2453 X 320.