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Uh, Does 100 Van Ness Have a Sunroof Now? Sure Looks That Way
Friday, May 17th, 2013Your Giant Photo of San Francisco’s Western Addition, Annotated
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012Part of the Western Addition, anyway:
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It’s hillier in person BTW.
And here’s the Google Earth version:
Don’t Miss Today’s Big Meeting About Adding a Bike Path to the Western Span of the Bay Bridge – 5:30 PM, 100 Van Ness
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Via LivaSOMA comes news of today’s big meeting about putting a bike lane on the western span of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge.
It’ll look like this:
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All the deets:
“Open House to Unveil Design Alternatives for Bay Bridge West Span Bike/Ped Path Project - December 13 Meeting to Highlight Concepts, Challenges, Opportunities
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m
SFCTA Board Room
100 Van Ness Avenue, 26th Floor
San Francisco, CA
The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA), in partnership with Caltrans and the City and County of San Francisco, has developed several design alternatives for a bicycle/pedestrian/maintenance path project on the West Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and will present these alternatives for public review and consideration at an informational open house on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m in the San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board Room, 100 Van Ness Avenue, 26th Floor, in San Francisco.
The open house will advance development of a Project Initiation Document (PID) for what is formally known as the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Bicycle Pedestrian Maintenance Path Project. The PID is intended to update the feasibility study performed in 2001. In addition to featuring design alternatives, the open house will outline key challenges and constraints, project costs, and the development process for the project. The public is invited to view project exhibits and talk with project team members. A presentation will be made at 6 p.m. and at 6:45 p.m. Please note the same presentation will be given at both times.
The proposed pathway project would extend the bicycle/pedestrian path already being constructed on the Bay Bridge’s new East Span by taking it around Yerba Buena Island and across the bridge’s West Span into San Francisco. In addition to providing a continuous bike/ped route from Oakland to San Francisco, the path project also would provide improved bridge access for Caltrans maintenance crews, thereby reducing maintenance closures on the bridge. Please note that these are preliminary designs and that funding for this project has not yet been identified.
Project materials will be posted to mtc.ca.gov/westspanbikepath after the meeting. Meeting facilities are accessible to persons with disabilities. Requests for special accommodations should be directed to Meghan Daniels at m.daniels@circlepoint.com or 415.227.1100 x118.”
That New SFPUC Building Going Up on Golden Gate Avenue Isn’t Making Much of an Impression So Far
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011See?
Camera left: Fox Plaza, 100 Van Ness, Sutro Tower
Camera middle: 100 McAllister (UC Hastings – the oldest and largest law school west of the Mississippi, until somebody tells me different), City Hall (the highest old-school dome in the Western hemisphere, yes higher than the U.S. Capitol Building)
Camera right: State Building (a bit stubby but you state workers are going to ride out the next Big One with elan), future SFPUC site (see the busy, busy tower crane?), old Federal Building (Big Blue)
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Now, the SFPUC Building at 525 GG was supposed to have windmills on the top and whatnot but that’s not going to happen now.
Oh well.
How will you make a mark SFPUC? How will you show the world how great you are? (LEED-certification? Is that it? Well, O.K., just be sure to tell tout le monde about over and over and over again…)
Looking West From the 29th Floor – A Unique View of the Western Addition – From Hayes Valley to Mervyn’s Heights
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010This one will get extra big when you click on it. Might have taken me a few moments to get oriented – how long will it take you?
The vaunted Hayes Street Hill doesn’t look all that hilly from this perspective (although it certainly is steep in real life, like when you’re running the annual Bay to Breakers Footrace and Civic Event – it’s the hardest part of the course and the second-highest point after JFK Jr. Drive near Prayerbook Cross in Golden Gate Park.)
Anyway, here it is, the Western Addition, or at least the parts you can see from 100 Van Ness:
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And here’s a similar view from Google Earth (but, sorry G.E., you can’t actually see the Pacific Ocean from Van Ness):
Enjoy…
