Big news! We’re merging with Streets for All and becoming their San Francisco chapter: Streets For All San Francisco 🥳
KidSafe SF started just over 4 years ago on a fateful day for San Francisco. It was 2021, nearly a year into the pandemic, when several city supervisors launched an attack on the transformative version of car-free JFK Drive that had become a lifeline for so many during a dark time. A movement quickly grew: Families who had started biking to school, teenagers who found freedom in car-free streets, seniors who embraced ebikes for short daily trips – all came together to fight for a safer, more people-centered San Francisco.
Thanks to the groundswell of advocacy and a passionate team of tireless volunteers, we didn’t just transform JFK Drive into JFK Promenade. Together, we helped pass two ballot measures, made 16 Slow Streets permanent, and re-envisioned the Great Highway as an oceanfront park. San Francisco now has the bones of a network of streets safe enough for everyone to get around however they choose. We proved what’s possible when families organize, and when a city dares to reimagine the way we use our streets.
Today, we’re excited to share what’s next.
We’re merging with Streets For All and becoming Streets For All San Francisco.
We’re joining forces with an organization that shares our values and has the political muscle to make big things happen. Streets For All is a visionary advocacy organization based in Los Angeles, and we’ll be their first chapter outside of Los Angeles. Together, we’re building a unified, statewide movement for safe streets, better public transit, and climate-friendly transportation.
Over the past few years, we’ve gotten to know the team at Streets For All, and are so inspired by what they’ve accomplished. They passed the innovative Healthy Streets LA ballot measure last year, and have quickly become a major force in Sacramento, where they’ve helped pass 15 bills into law, including AB 413 (statewide daylighting) and SB 960 (requiring CalTrans to build complete streets).
Their values align with everything we’ve fought for at KidSafe SF, and this merger will allow us to do even more, faster, to accelerate progress on reducing traffic deaths, and increase sustainable transportation options here in San Francisco and across California.
The next chapter of Safe Streets in San Francisco
This next chapter with Streets For All is big, and it’s full of possibility. We’re bringing all of the momentum and passion and lessons learned from KidSafe with us, and our mission remains the same: to build safer, greener, more connected communities where everyone—especially kids—can thrive.
Together, we’re planning legislation and campaigns to make streets safer, increase funding for transit and active transportation, reduce the bias toward auto-dependent development in state law, and stop highway widening projects.
In San Francisco, our vision of a network of community plazas and car-free promenades connected by greenways is well on its way to reality, but there’s still so much work to do.
Streets For All San Francisco will continue to build on our vision by:
Advocating for people-first streets and walkable communities through better street design, protected bike lanes and citywide standards
Supporting the growing network of street stewards working to make their neighborhoods better
Fighting to protect and expand Muni and BART, which are facing an existential budget crisis next year.
This is your movement as much as ours. If you’ve ever thought about getting involved, now is the time. We need volunteers, supporters, and members who believe that streets should be safe enough for an 8-year-old to bike to school—and that we can build that reality, block by block.
Thank you for being a part of this journey so far, and for joining us on this exciting new chapter. Let’s keep building a city, and a state, where our streets work for everyone.