Prototype Walklet Installed in SF

As part of San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks program, three parking spaces on 22nd Ave have been converted into a mini park, complete with seating, bike parking and beautiful landscaping (added after this picture was taken).

The modular Walklet ™ units were designed by Rebar Group, a San Francisco design studio that inspired the International Parking Day movement with their two hour “intervention” in a downtown SF parking space. This Park(ing) project happened in November 2005. It was a simple act. They didn’t ask permission. They didn’t promote it. They just plugged a meter, rolled out some turf, and started filming. “Sort of makes you wonder what else you can do in a parking space…” concludes their writeup. Now we are beginning to find out.