From the Office of the Mayor
City & County of San Francisco
Gavin Newsom
On behalf of the City and County of San Francisco, it is with great pleasure that I share with you one of our City’s most exciting initiatives, Sunday Streets.
Sunday Streets is considered an extension of our City’s Shape Up San Francisco program which encourages healthy eating and active living. As a logical next step toward our goal of a healthier San Francisco, the Sunday Streets initiative promises to achieve this same goal with even greater opportunities for our residents to participate in fitness programs and activities while also fostering more community interaction. Modeled on 30-year old program in Bogota, Columbia, this concept has spread to four continents and has proven wildly popular from Tokyo, Japan to Kiev, Ukraine. It brings physical activity space to our neighborhoods on Sunday mornings, creating a route for thousands of local families, kids and adults to walk, jog, and bike, as well as participate in group exercise. It offers safe, free and fun activities that attract people from throughout our City and the entire Bay Area.
We have been working with a broad coalition of city agencies and community based organizations to make this initiative a success and we are currently executing a major public and media campaign to promote the events. Each event to date has attracted tens of thousands of Bay Area residents, and it is our sincere hope that Sunday Streets will add to our city’s long list of grand traditions. I have been and will be personally participating in these events—I also hope to see each and every one of you there.
Your participation is key to the success of this new bold community-based health and environmental initiative!
With warmest regards,
Gavin Newsom
Mayor
