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Avalos Ready to Champion Freeway Ramp Closures at Balboa Park Station
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Balboa Park Station could become a safer transit hub by 2020 if the city moves forward with proposals to close one freeway ramp and re-align another, as recommended in a study recently completed by the SF County Transportation Authority. Although the proposal hasn’t received much public attention, it’s sure to face a tough political fight when it’s eventually implemented, […]
SFCTA Considers Removing Freeway Ramps at Balboa Park Station
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Balboa Park may be a major transit hub for BART and Muni, but it’s hard to tell as you approach the station, which is surrounded by dangerous roads swarming with car traffic moving to and from six nearby freeway ramps. The design of the area around the station — not to mention the 24,000 people […]
Balboa Park Station Open House
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This morning from 7 to 10 am BART officials, consultants, and even a legislative aide for Supervisor John Avalos’s office answered questions and heard comments from the public about plans to modernize Balboa Park Station, one of the busiest in both BART and Muni’s networks. From BART’s webpage on the project: The goal of the […]
Brisbane Baylands Mega Development Plans for Mega Car Traffic
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As the City of Brisbane agonizes over how little housing to include in a new mixed-use mega development to be built around a relocated Bayshore Caltrain Station, proposals to sink over $300 million into a new 12-lane Highway 101 interchange and an eight-lane extension of Geneva Avenue remain uncontroversial. If approved, 7 million square feet of new office and retail space will be […]
Streetsblog Q&A with BART Board Candidate Janice Li
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Late last week, Janice Li, Advocacy Director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, stopped by City Hall to pull papers and officially begin her campaign for the District 8 seat of the BART Board
NIMBYs Fight Glen Park GoBike Station
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Neighborhood objections and fear of lost car parking are tying up a planned bike share rack at the corner of Chenery and Randall Streets