The San Francisco Great Streets Project aims to transform city streets into vibrant public spaces through demonstration projects. It works with leaders to test placemaking strategies like widening sidewalks, adding bike lanes and pedestrian plazas. These trials help officials identify effective approaches to institutionalize citywide, like those seen internationally in Copenhagen, Paris, Barcelona and London. San Francisco has implemented several successful street improvement trials and has plans for more.
16. Photo by Brad Aaron Broadway Boulevard: Times Square becomes a great place to sit, even before the space is built out. This will become a more permanent looking trial plaza.
38. Now the City is experimenting with new ways to deliver great public spaces -- faster, starting with these next three spaces …
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40. Request one in your neighborhood at sfpavementtoparks.sfplanning.org.
41. How can this approach be applied to revitalizing Market Street?
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43. The San Francisco Great Streets Project invites you to be part of the movement to bring great public spaces to our city’s streets. Get involved at sfgreatstreets.org