Removing Freeway Ramps at Balboa Park: CAC and Community Meeting
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Avalos Ready to Champion Freeway Ramp Closures at Balboa Park Station
By Aaron Bialick |
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
By Aaron Bialick |
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
By Roger Rudick |
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 […]
City College Property Could Make Room for Buffered Bike Lane on Ocean Ave
By Aaron Bialick |
A proposed solution has surfaced for one of the most frightening gaps in the Ocean Avenue bike lane at Balboa Park Station, where the existing bike lane disappears and throws uphill bike commuters in front of a high-speed freeway off-ramp. City College of SF has proposed opening up the edge of its main campus property, […]
Advocates: Ocean Ave Plans Come Up Short for Safer Bicycling at Balboa Park
By Aaron Bialick |
A city proposal for Ocean and Geneva Avenues would do little to make bicycling safer and more comfortable between the Balboa Park BART and Muni station and destinations west of City College’s main campus, say bike advocates. While plans to add bulb-outs and tame the hairy Ocean and Geneva intersection would make the streets somewhat safer, overall, […]
Bernal and Glen Park Neighbors Seek Traffic Calming in “The Cut”
By Matthew Roth |
Looking south on San Jose Avenue from Randall Street. The southbound direction narrows to two lanes, but the northbound direction remains three. Photos: Matthew Roth By the time the political tides had turned against ripping up neighborhoods to make way for freeways in the late 1950s, the result of the San Francisco freeway revolt, many […]