2011 Sunday Streets

Sunday Streets - 2011 Season Schedule (subject to change):

• March 20: Kick off event, along the Embarcadero, from Fisherman's Wharf to Mission Bay.
• April 10: Great Highway, and Golden Gate Park; 'Penguins To Penguins'.
• May 8: Mission Route, including the popular route, along 24th, and Valencia Streets.
• June 12: Bayview Route, 3rd Street, from Mission Bay, Dogpatch to the Bayview Opera House.
• July 10: Great Highway Route #2.
• August 14: Civic Center/Tenderloin Route.
• September 11: Western Addition Route, including North of Panhandle, Alamo Square, and Fillmore, and Japantown neighborhoods.
• Summer: Chinatown, and North Beach.
• October 23: Mission Route #2.

This year's event calendar features monthly events from March 20 through October of 2011, with events occurring on the 2nd Sunday of each month, starting in April.

Sunday Streets - 2011 Season continues the tradition of visiting diverse communities, throughout the City with a variety of routes in different neighborhoods. While returning to popular areas along established routes, 2011 events will extend into new neighborhoods, and include more diverse program elements that highlight each neighborhood's unique character, and often overlooked community attractions, and institutions.

Returning activities include the ever-popular bike programming: free bike rentals offered by Bike & Roll, Bay City Bike Rentals, and Tours, and Blazing Saddles, bike safety courses presented by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and Presidio YMCA's Y Bike Program, as well as bike maintenance programs, and adult bike education. The CA Outdoor Rollersports Assoc, and David Miles, aka 'The Godfather of Skate' will bring out a mobile roller disco with free skate rentals, and the YMCA of San Francisco will coordinate activities for children, and families through local YMCA Branches near each route.

Introduced by Mayor Newsom in 2008, Sunday Streets creates a safe, fun, car-free place for people to get out, and get active in San Francisco neighborhoods. The program started in 2008 with two events that connected Chinatown to the Bayview with a 4.5-mile route from Portsmouth Square in Chinatown along the Embarcadero to the Bayview Opera House on 3rd Street. In 2009, Sunday Streets featured six events on four unique routes, including the Embarcadero, Bayview, Mission, and Great Highway.

Sunday Streets became an official City program in 2010 under the leadership of the SF Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) as presenting sponsor. The season featured nine events covering five different routes around the city, with longer routes, and an additional hour of programming each day.

Sunday Streets is presented by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), the City, and County of San Francisco, and Livable City, a local transportation-oriented non-profit manages the day-to-day operations, and serves as the program's fiscal sponsor. San Francisco Bicycle Coalition manages the Volunteer component of Sunday Streets (to volunteer, go to www.sundaystreetsSF.com/volunteer.html).

Sunday Streets is made possible by the generous support of our financial partners, including these sponsors who have made significant financial, and in-kind contributions over the last three seasons: Shape Up SF (a program of the SF Department of Public Health, and Department of Children Youth, and Families), Kaiser Permanente, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, California Pacific Medical Center, AT & T, Grants for the Arts, Sports Basement, Blue Shield, Lennar, PG & E, Webcor Builders, REI, Walgreens, Catholic Healthcare West, California Academy of Sciences, CH2MHILL, Clif Bar, and Clif Kid, Presidio Trust, PUBLIC Bikes, SF Federal Credit Union, Darling International, Zephyr Real Estate, MJM Management, American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter, and media support from the San Francisco Examiner, Clear Channel, and Weekend Sherpa. Business community support includes Fisherman's Wharf, Tenderloin, Fillmore Community Benefits Districts, Japantown, Lower 24th Street (Mission), Bayview, Taraval, and Outer Sunset Merchant Associations.