SFBC News: Spot Improvements, Vision Zero Funding and We're Hiring!

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July 1, 2014 Dear Kevin, Your SF Bicycle Coalition membership is current through 12/14/2014. Thank you for being a member! THIS WEEK: 40 Spot Improvements Coming Your Way We're Hiring: Volunteer Coordinator (Part-Time) Streetsblog Founder to Speak About SF Livable Streets Last Minute Funding Secured for Street Safety The Ultimate Bike Shop Challenge is on! Support Your Favorite Shop Buffered Bike Lanes Coming to Howard Street Video: Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam Upcoming Events The Summer Tube Times is out! Members, look for it in your mailbox, and check it out online here.  40 Spot Improvements Coming Your Way  Last week, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) committed to prioritizing 40 bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure improvements on high injury streets. These spot improvements were chosen based on data from the Department of Public Health that analyzed crash data to identify high injury corridors and intersections for bicyclists and pedestrians. While timelines will vary, the SFMTA has committed to getting all 40 of these done in 24 months, which means there will be lots of exciting new projects in the works!  See the full list of 40 spot improvements and suggest your own. We're Hiring: Volunteer Coordinator (Part-Time) We are hiring a part-time Volunteer Coordinator to join our team as we grow and support our amazing community of volunteers. This is a great opportunity for a candidate with stellar interpersonal skills, a love of volunteer supervision and a strong connection to our organization. The Volunteer Coordinator should have a keen understanding of how to best leverage volunteers to support and grow a nonprofit and how to recruit and retain volunteers for a variety of roles. Spanish and/or Chinese language skills a strong plus. Please view the full job description and application instructions here. Apply today! Streetsblog Founder to Speak About SF Livable Streets On July 15, we will be honored to have the Streetsblog founder and livable streets guru, Aaron Naparstek, giving the keynote speech at our 2014 Golden Wheel Awards. Naparstek has traveled the globe reporting on the livable streets movement, and will be coming to San Francisco to share his stories and inspiration for all of us at the Golden Wheel Awards. Here’s just a preview of his ideas on biking, safe streets, San Francisco and what it will take for our city to be a truly great place for biking. Get your Golden Wheel ticket today! Last Minute Funding Secured for Street Safety Your San Francisco Bicycle Coalition staff, along with other Vision Zero partners such as WalkSF and Chinatown Community Development Center youth, were literally roaming the City Hall corridors last week, advocating for funding to be added back for Vision Zero, so that our city streets can be safer for everyone. While we weren’t able to convince the supervisors to backfill the entire Vehicle License Fee hole (which is about $13 million for the 2016 fiscal year), we did receive great support from various supervisors who requested funding for Vision Zero projects in their respective districts. See the list of funded projects, and note which Supervisors dug into the budget at the eleventh hour to help fund street safety. The Ultimate Bike Shop Challenge is on! Support Your Favorite Shop  Did you know you could join or renew your membership at any time of the year at many bike shops around town? Well, this month 10 shops are competing in the Ultimate Bike Shop Challenge to recruit the most members for the SF Bicycle Coalition. The champion will join us at New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat, a free (and fun!) bike and music event in Golden Gate Park on Saturday, September 13. Sign up today! Big Swingin’ Cycles Huckleberry Bicycle Market Street Cycles Mike's Bikes of San Francisco Mission Bicycle Company Pedal Revolution Sports Basement (Presidio and Bryant Street locations) Swell Bicycles The New Wheel When you join or renew at one of these participating bike shops you'll be entered into a raffle to win a free SF Bicycle Coalition t-shirt, and you'll be supporting our work to make your commute better! Visit any of these shops to join or renew, and don't forget to use your special member discount while you're there. Current members receive discounts at more than 60 businesses across San Francisco. Join or renew now, and let your membership pay for itself! Buffered Bike Lanes Coming to Howard Street Last week, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) held an Open House to present information on their upcoming plans for Howard Street and 6th Street. To complement the new buffered lanes on Folsom Street, there will be a similar treatment on Howard Street from 6th to 10th to be implemented by this Fall. As part of the Central SoMa Plan, they will also be looking into extending these bike lanes further – potentially all the way to the Embarcadero. There will also be additional traffic calming measures coming to 6th Street to improve pedestrian safety from Market to Howard. Read more about our work on these key corridors to get you safely to and from SoMa, and sign up for the campaign today. Video: Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam In 1969, the percentage of children walking or biking to school was nearly 50%. By 2009, it had fallen to just 13%. Why is this the case? This recent StreetFilms video talks about the environment we have built, which accomodates cars before people and thus decreases the amount kids are able to walk or bike safely around town. This short video is a call to create increasingly livable streets that make it safe and comfortable for children to bike and walk to school – more like the good old days! CHAIN OF EVENTS Check out our online calendar of events. To add your bike event to our calendar, simply email the details to us. Tuesday, July 1 SF Bicycle Coalition Phone Bank 5-8PM SF Bicycle Coalition HQ, 833 Market St., 10th Floor Bicycle Ambassador Training 6-7:30PM SF Bicycle Coalition HQ, 833 Market St. 10th Floor Saturday, July 5 Free Valet Bike Parking at Opera at the Ballpark Operas Starts at 8PM AT&T Park (Events not sponsored by the SF Bicycle Coalition are marked with an *) Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and make San Francisco great for bicycling! Become a member and join a diverse group of people who are committed to transforming city streets into more dignified places to ride a bicycle. Add your voice and keep bike improvements moving forward in San Francisco! San Francisco Bicycle Coalition 833 Market Street, 10th floor San Francisco, CA 94103

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