Eyes on the Street: SFMTA Restores Two-Way Traffic on Ellis
The SFMTA last week restored two-way traffic on four blocks of Ellis Street, from Polk to Jones Streets. It's the final phase of a project that also converted two blocks of the adjacent Eddy Street last month, bringing humane traffic speeds to what used to be highway-like, one-way arterial streets.
2:30 PM PDT on May 22, 2012
The SFMTA last week restored two-way traffic on four blocks of Ellis Street, from Polk to Jones Streets. It’s the final phase of a project that also converted two blocks of the adjacent Eddy Street last month, bringing humane traffic speeds to what used to be highway-like, one-way arterial streets.
Check out more of Frank Chan’s always-stellar shots after the break and on his Flickr account.
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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