Get your walking shoes on and join HVNA Board member Larry Cronander for a tour in Hayes Valley this Sunday!

Sun, February 12, 1pm – 4pm

Meet at Koshland Park – corner of Page and Buchanan Streets (map)

Description:

Join Walk San Francisco and our guide Larry Cronander for an exploration of the colorful past, dynamic present and promising future of Hayes Valley, one of the City’s most rapidly changing neighborhoods. A vibrant early Victorian neighborhood, Hayes Valley later went into decades of decline, particularly with the construction of the Central Freeway in the 1950s. With its demolition, the adoption of the Market-Octavia Plan and the construction of Octavia Boulevard, the neighborhood bloomed again, with renovations, new construction, and innovative interim uses of the spaces left by the freeway’s footprint. We’ll check out official San Francisco landmark buildings, the Hayes Valley Farm, and much more.

We’ll finish at a local pub on Hayes Street, where you can stay if you wish to enjoy the company of your fellow walkers!

February 12, 2012
1:00 p.m.
Meet at Koshland Park – corner of Page and Buchanan Streets
Length: 2-3 hours
Moderately strenuous

$10 for the general public.
Free for WalkSF members—See you there!

RSVP Here:
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Please note that in the case of rain, we will cancel the event. Be sure to leave your email address as we will inform you should we need to cancel.

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The Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association hosted a meeting focused on walking and biking around the neighborhood and beyond.

Walk San Francisco
Elizabeth Stampe is executive director of Walk San Francisco – a pedestrian advocacy group. She spoke about situations facing San Francisco’s pedestrians on our streets, Walk SF’s current campaigns, and citywide efforts underway to make it safer, easier, and perhaps even more fun to walk in our city.

San Francisco Bike Coalition
Neal Patel of SF Bike Coalition discussed Connecting the City -  the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s vision for biking in the city.  There is a growing demand for biking in San Francisco, and Connecting the City will help Hayes Valley residents and workers get around the city by bike as well as bring more people to the neighborhood for work, to dine, or to go shopping.  He discussed current efforts to improve Market Street.

Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee

John Lowell, member of the Pedestrian Safety , will review the 2010 Pedestrian Safety Report prepared by the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. John will provide handouts with information about PSAC, a directory of pedestrian safety offices within city government as well as nonprofit pedestrian safety groups and information about District 5 and the city as a whole including the Mayor’s Executive Directive on Pedestrian Safety 10-03, issued on 12-20-2010.

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