Thousands enjoy S.F.'s Sundays Street event
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The first one out of two - Sunday Streets San Francisco, was loads of fun and free of motorized traffic worries. All ages were out there pedaling, walking, running and everything else and on top of it all, was such a gorgeous day. Beautiful!!!
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(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Thousands of people from throughout the Bay Area converged on San Francisco's streets Sunday, but they weren't protesting anything.
Instead, people of all ages rode bicycles and scooters and jogged and strolled on 4.5 miles of waterfront streets closed to car traffic for the city's first Sunday Streets event.
Mayor Gavin Newsom first proposed the street closures in July, modeling it after a program in Bogota, Colombia. Other cities across the world and in the United States have similar street closures.
Newsom took criticism for not taking enough time to talk with merchants and neighborhoods that would be affected. The complaints persuaded city officials to shorten the length of the street closures and cut the time that cars would be banned.
On Sunday, Newsom - who jogged the entire route with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, - said he would "commit to an objective evaluation" of the event and make any necessary changes for future closures. Merchants at Fisherman's Wharf, who were concerned that closing part of the Embarcadero would hurt their business, are planning to compare sales from this weekend to last weekend to look for any impact.
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(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Thousands of people from throughout the Bay Area converged on San Francisco's streets Sunday, but they weren't protesting anything.
Instead, people of all ages rode bicycles and scooters and jogged and strolled on 4.5 miles of waterfront streets closed to car traffic for the city's first Sunday Streets event.
Mayor Gavin Newsom first proposed the street closures in July, modeling it after a program in Bogota, Colombia. Other cities across the world and in the United States have similar street closures.
Newsom took criticism for not taking enough time to talk with merchants and neighborhoods that would be affected. The complaints persuaded city officials to shorten the length of the street closures and cut the time that cars would be banned.
On Sunday, Newsom - who jogged the entire route with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, - said he would "commit to an objective evaluation" of the event and make any necessary changes for future closures. Merchants at Fisherman's Wharf, who were concerned that closing part of the Embarcadero would hurt their business, are planning to compare sales from this weekend to last weekend to look for any impact.
