Vaillancourt Fountain was a comment on its former neighbor, the Embarcadero Freeway. But the freeway is all gone, so why are we still stuck with the fountain?
Remember when SFGov shut down this fountain back in 2000 to save on operating costs?
Why not let’s do that again?
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(Hey man, nice shot!)
Or better yet, let’s just take this whole thing down.
Apparently.
Notice that the tall buildings have been kept away from the waterfront going way back before the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
Part of a photo as seen at a local McDonalds:
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So just as the long-gone Embarcadero Freeway (see it?) is connected with the Bridge-to-Nowhere, Big Dig Central Subway, the “wired” 8 Washington project is connected with the Chinatown voting stencils effort recently exerted to elect Accidental Mayor Ed Lee.
On it goes.
