Flex Streets News Today

Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement

Oakland is considering making outdoor parklets and sidewalk cafes — a pandemic-era...

Following controversy over the future of parklets in San Francisco, Chronicle reporters...

April 18, 2021 Sipping a strong drink outside with friends, jazz music in the air, you could almost forget the pandemic—except for masks dangling around everyone’s chins. Telegraph street in downtown Oakland, California has been closed to auto traffic through a program called flex streets, allowing watering holes like Bar Shiru to set up their tables in the avenue for socially-distanced service. To limit menus, credit cards, or cash from passing back and forth between customers and servers,...