Scott Wiener center, wearing glasses and community members as they prepare to cut a ribbon celebrating the completion of the Geary Rapid Project at Japantown Peace Plaza. Grosso is visually impaired and uses the new crosswalk. Lou Grosso left prepares to cross the street after a press conference celebrating the completion of the Geary Rapid Project.
City officials gathered at the Japantown Peace Plaza on a gloomy and rainy Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the fact that the so-called Geary Rapid Project was completed on time and on budget since breaking ground in Red transit-only lanes have been installed along Geary.
A dozen new transit bulb-outs — sidewalk extensions at Muni stops meant to reduce pickup delays — dot the corridor. More surface-level and signalized crosswalks have been installed that include intersections on Geary and Webster streets. The newly installed crosswalks also give pedestrians greater access to cross the sprawling Geary corridor that divides the Western Addition to the south and Japantown to the north. The project has helped reconnect Lou Grosso, 67, who is blind, to the neighborhoods north of Geary.
Great post!! China on the other hand has saved a lot of money and so has had the ability to invest it in building cool stuff. Why is this not in the Chronicle or other local paper!?!! This is why I read blogs. People actually care about the subject and write about it without dumbing it down. Thanks Eric. I eagerly await the BvR fight :. Great post — the combination of history and current info is fantastic.
Its totally depressing and if the people who make decision get there way more money will be poured down the hole of BART to San Jose and Livermore while we crush onto buses. Much as I wish we had built Geary already, one piece of history is missing here.
Few who saw the destruction of the small businesses were willing to have that in the Richmond. Ask the Bayview residents.
I agree with David. Everyone in the city screams about how a line is needed on Geary, but has anyone considered the disruption and backlash of Geary merchants? The Geary Merchants and NIMBY types would throw a fit if we even attempted to build something sensible down that corridor, if it were shallow. Like the Central Subway or not, Chinatown is far more receptive to subway service and whatever disruption accompanies it than the Geary merchants.
The truth of the matter is: you have to sacrifice aesthetic, time, and convenience for a sensible mass transit route. I very much doubt that the Geary crowd has the patience or the sense to permit that sort of disruption.
A deep subway using tunnel-boring machines would be the only way to pacify the Geary crowd and get something sensible to the Richmond. Aqueduct and the Interstate Highway system. Back in , I visited the Golden Spike Historical Site in Utah, and thought that if we tried to build a transcontinental railway today, CP and UP would still be doing environmental reports, the various native tribes would be taking their cases all the way to the Supreme Court, and the Friends of the American Bison would be conducting protest marches.
Well, the tracks got built, the trains started running, and the newspaper is no longer published. Bay Bridge? Airport BART?
High Speed Rail? The Cal stadium expansion? Slow them down, sometimes. Block, never. Just look at the High Speed Rail proposition.
Taxpayer groups… and the California Chamber of Commerce. In any year from until , the Chamber of Commerce would have been the biggest backer of high speed rail, since infrastructure investment is critical to state competitiveness.
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Cost Estimate. See "Project Timeline" below. Extension of side-running transit lanes to reduce unpredictable delays on blocks that do not yet have them between Park Presidio Boulevard and 34th Avenue. Transit bulbs to decrease bus delays by allowing buses to remain in the travel lane when passengers load and unload.
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