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On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Chinatown Community Development Center teamed with community partners to paint a sidewalk mural, part of the “Safe Passage” project, in the Tenderloin neighborhood.
“Safe Passage,” a two-part project that began in 2008, encourages community participation and effort to help improve street safety for children, and maintain a harmonious environment for all Tenderloin residents.
The 11-block street mural of a bright yellow brick road provides children with visual guides around the neighborhood so they can walk safely to their schools, afterschool programs and homes without getting lost. The mural covers the streets from Ellis Street to Golden Gate Avenue between Leavenworth Street and Jones Street, and Ellis Street between Leavenworth Street and Hyde Street.
In addition, residents and merchants along the mural will form a volunteer network to supervise the children’s safety, and prevent them from drug exposures, gangster activities and pedestrian safety problems. Youth from the Tenderloin Club Keystone will also help escort children from schools and educate them to recognize the mural as a community guide to their destinations.
Great idea! You must show us again when it is finished.
Interesting. I am glad that the yellow brick road leads somewhere other than Oz!
This is a great idea. Wished they have it in more neighborhoods.
What a good idea! The Tenderloin is not a very child-friendly area. This is a good way to bring the neighborhood together and encourage a palpable commitment to children.
Cool idea, and nice capture!
Those are nice shadows you have going there. Love how quiet it looks.
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What a wonderful street mural and community project to protect the kids! Love that! Nicely captured… I especially like the shot with the long shadows of the parking meters… Thank you for sharing on Weekly Top Shot… 😉
What an absolutely cool idea.
Mollyxxx
Fantastic idea – the Tenderloin can be a challenging area for adults, great that the merchants and parents have baned together to make it safer for the children.
Lovin’ this yellow brick road, but wondering why the neighborhood is called “tenderloin” which to me is a pork sandwich meat!
That sounds like a great idea. The Tenderloin is not some place I venture out to often but I know there is an influx of families moving there so I’m glad the community is working together to keep it safe.
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Rose
That’s awesome. I love your pictures because you take me to parts of the city I never go to anymore since becoming a mother.