Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Doyle Drive

“Not a Freeway” — Re-Branding the Excesses of the $1.4B Presidio Parkway

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 11, 2014 | 47 Comments

When visitors land on the front page of the Presidio Parkway’s website, they see an animated pelican emerging from beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, gliding across green hills and blue skies. When the bird lands, you can “Meet Parker” with a click and learn all about the Presidio Parkway Pelican. The PR team for this […]

Planners Expect Public-Private Partnership to Lower Doyle Drive Costs

By Matthew Roth | Nov 15, 2010 | 5 Comments

The Presidio Parkway/Doyle Drive project will move into the second phase of construction early next year, but planners are already touting a unique public-private partnership, or P3 in their shorthand, which they say forges a new model for delivering massive infrastructure projects for less money and greater financial oversight. Assuming all the necessary approvals are […]

Presidio Parkway Could Revive a Wetland Buried by Asphalt

By Matt Baume | Aug 26, 2010 | 9 Comments

It may look like a forgotten military landscape, decaying beneath an elevated freeway and overgrown with weeds, but hidden beneath the abandoned buildings and broken pavement, Presidio planners see the potential to regenerate a wetland. Quartermaster Reach is currently so neglected, most people don’t even know it exists. Floating between Lucasfilm’s Letterman complex and the […]

Enviro, Preservation Concerns Drive Opposition to Presidio Main Post Plans

By Susan Vaughan | Apr 10, 2009 | 3 Comments

Flickr photo: 2composers Revised plans for the Main Post of San Francisco’s Presidio national park, which include construction of a contemporary art museum for the collection of billionaire businessman Donald Fisher, are still unsatisfactory, say many preservationists, environmentalists, and neighbors who attended a hearing on the new plans Tuesday night. Despite the fact that the […]

Streetscast: An Interview with District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 31, 2009 | 10 Comments

District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier represents the Presidio, Cow Hollow, Marina, Pacific Heights and part of the Richmond District. She was originally appointed to her seat by Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2004, and comes from a well-known political family. Her grandfather, Joe Alioto, was mayor from 1968-1976 and her aunt, Angela Alioto, was President of the […]

San Francisco Shovel Ready for Freeway Project Through a Park

By Susan Vaughan | Mar 30, 2009 | 17 Comments

SFCTA Graphic Five decades after activists killed plans for a major freeway traveling through San Francisco’s Panhandle, construction companies are lining up for the contract to break ground in August on another major freeway through a park – the Presidio Parkway, which will replace Doyle Drive in the Presidio National Park. Plans to improve or […]