Biking and rolling plan

A People-Powered Future in Motion

Something powerful is in motion on the streets of San Francisco not just wheels on pavement, but a movement to reshape how we move, who gets to move, and what that movement represents.

The Biking and Rolling Plan: Active Communities is more than a transportation blueprint. It’s a bold, two-year journey to rewrite the future of mobility, rooted in equity, climate justice, and collective visioning. It’s a call to transform streets into spaces of connection, freedom, and care.

A City in Motion and in Transition

Since the last Bicycle Master Plan in 2009, San Francisco has changed and so have its needs. Our streets face the urgent realities of climate change, rising inequity, and a growing call for inclusive, people-centered infrastructure.

Today, under the guiding stars of Vision Zero and the SF Climate Action Strategy, the Biking and Rolling Plan takes a long-overdue step: it elevates biking, scooting, and rolling from niche options to essential infrastructure for thriving communities.

This plan isn’t just about bikes it’s about everyone who rolls through life. That means scooters. Wheelchairs. Adaptive bikes. Strollers. And the diverse people who power them: youth, elders, women, trans and nonbinary riders, monolingual residents, people with disabilities. It’s about mobility justice.

A Guiding Vision for the Next 10–15 Years

The Plan is rooted in one central belief: everyone deserves the freedom to move safely and joyfully. It charts a bold course for the next decade of SFMTA investment in infrastructure, programs, and policy. But its heart beats with the voices of communities long left out of the conversation.

What Guides This Vision?

• Advance equity – Acknowledge and repair past harms. Ensure every San Franciscan, regardless of zip code, has mobility choices that work for them.
• Safety for all – Design streets where a child on a scooter and a grandparent using a walker can feel equally secure.
• Act on climate – Biking and rolling aren’t just fun they’re essential in our fight against emissions.
• Access for all – Create a low-stress, citywide network that’s inviting, inclusive, and welcoming.
• Deliver real results – Respect communities by building faster and better.
• Innovate and be accountable – Reimagine how city agencies deliver projects and who they answer to.

Equity at the Center Not at the Margins

San Francisco’s transportation history has not been neutral. Too often, communities of color have borne the brunt of displacement, pollution, and decisions made without them. The Biking and Rolling Plan names this truth and moves toward healing.

By centering the leadership and lived experiences of those historically excluded in places like Bayview-Hunters Point, the Mission, Tenderloin, SoMa, and Western Addition the plan becomes more than policy. It becomes a practice in trust-building and co-creation.

These aren’t just target areas they’re partners in transformation:

• Bayview-Hunters Point: With Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates
• The Mission + Outer Mission/Excelsior: With PODER’s Bicis del Pueblo
• Tenderloin: With The Tenderloin Community Benefit District
• Western Addition: With New Community Leadership Foundation
• SoMa: With SoMa Pilipinas

Community Power in Every Pedal Stroke

Real change doesn’t happen in a vacuum it happens through conversation. That’s why 2023 kicked off a citywide listening tour, inviting residents to share not just where they roll, but how it feels, what gets in the way, and what a better future could look like.

From open streets events to neighborhood workshops and multilingual listening sessions, every voice adds to the plan’s foundation. This isn’t outreach. It’s relationship-building.

How Can You Get Involved?

This is your city. Your community. Your network.

Whether you’re a daily bike commuter, a wheelchair user navigating narrow sidewalks, or someone dreaming of a future where your kids can ride safely to school your voice matters.

This plan opens the door to:

✅ A stronger, safer network for all kinds of devices
✅ More parking, amenities, and support programs
✅ New policies that meet you where you are

And perhaps most importantly: a chance to co-create the San Francisco you believe in.

Let’s Build a City That Rolls Forward Together

The Biking and Rolling Plan isn’t just infrastructure planning. It’s a collective act of imagining a city that works better for everyone because the freedom to move should never depend on your income, ability, language, or identity.

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https://www.sfmta.com/projects/biking-and-rolling-plan?mc_cid=bd68678556&mc_eid=0bf75c3a79