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Sunday Streets hearing: health benefits and merchant impact cited; city and nonprofit partners seek sustainable funding
Summary
Livable City, public health researchers and SFMTA presented evidence that Sunday Streets increases physical activity and can boost some merchants’ revenues; presenters and community groups urged expanding routes into underserved neighborhoods while balancing sponsorship and neighborhood priorities.
The Board of Supervisors’ committee reviewed the Sunday Streets program on June 25, hearing presentations from Livable City, public health researchers and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency about the event’s health, economic and logistical outcomes.
Jeremy Pollack, legislative aide to Supervisor John Avalos, introduced the hearing. Tom Radulovich, executive director of Livable City, framed the program’s goals: increase physical activity, create temporary open space in neighborhoods that lack safe places to walk or play, model car‑free streets and strengthen social ties. Radulovich traced the program’s roots to Bogotá’s Ciclovía and said Sunday Streets has…
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