Sunday Streets to Great Streets: Enrique Penalosa, Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia & San Francisco Great Streets Project Launch Celebration July 7, 2009

WHAT: Sunday Streets to Great Streets: Enrique Penalosa, Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia & San Francisco Great Streets Project Launch Celebration
WHO: Enrique Penalosa, Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia & San Francisco Great Streets Project
WHEN: Tuesday, July 7th 5:30-7:30 pm
WHERE: Koret Auditorium, Main Public Library in San Francisco (100 Larkin)
WEBSITE: http://sfgreatstreets.org
COST: Free!

Valet bicycle parking provided.

Meet Enrique Penalosa, former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia and internationally-renowned innovator in the fields of transportation, housing and land use for large cities, as he discusses how San Francisco can learn from international best practices in urban public space development. San Francisco’s successful Sunday Streets program is based on Penalosa’s wildly popular “Ciclovia” system in Bogota. Thanks to Mayor Penalosa, Bogota has also become an international gold standard for Bus Rapid Transit. Penalosa will discuss how San Francisco can accomplish and benefit from further improvements to our city’s public realm.

This event will also celebrate the launch of the San Francisco Great Streets Project, a new campaign to catalyze the return of our city’s streets to their rightful place as the center of civic life in this wonderful city by working with government, business and neighborhood leaders to test, analyze and institutionalize placemaking.

Official Website: http://sfgreatstreets.org