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It's exciting to think ahead to what that part of Mission Bay and Potrero might feel like someday when the train tracks are put in an underground tunnel (for Ca
by drewda 9y ago
It's exciting to think ahead to what that part of Mission Bay and Potrero might feel like someday when the train tracks are put in an underground tunnel (for Caltrain and high-speed rail to the Transbay Center) and I-280 is turned into a surface-level boulevard (like Octavia).
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- vidoc 9y ago> I-280 is turned into a surface-level boulevard (like Octavia). You meant a parking lot, didn't you ? :D
- texuf 9y agoOctavia is quite nice and traffic flows through there pretty well.
- vidoc 9y agoI actually have to admit I am honestly not qualified to say whether the traffic on Octavia worsened after the redesign! I guess this is my subconscious tricking me there, since the redesigned Octavia, looks a lot like redesigned Chavez, which in fact has bike lanes, trees, and all, but became a parking lot !
- a2tech 9y agoIt’s a highway in California. It’s implied.
- drewda 9y agoTo be more precise, I meant storefronts, a few bike lanes, some trees, and then an "open air sewer for automobiles that pay no direct usage fees but still take up huge amounts of urban space per person" ;) Snide remarks aside, there are nice drawing of Octavia Boulevard in https://www.amazon.com/Boulevard-Book-Evolution-Multiway-Boulevards/dp/0262600587/ https://www.amazon.com/Boulevard-Book-Evolution-Multiway-Bou... and an interesting (at least to me) backstory of its development in https://www.amazon.com/Street-Fight-Struggle-Mobility-Francisco/dp/1558499997/ https://www.amazon.com/Street-Fight-Struggle-Mobility-Franci...