Octavia Boulevard
San Francisco's model "complete street," the recently built replacement for one of the city's most monstrous examples of modernist planning — an elevated freeway that plowed through and loomed over a tightly knit Victorian neighborhood — is a third-of-a-mile-long lesson in the manufacture of lemonade: an arterial for 45,000 autos a day that still somehow manages to make peace with pedestrians, cyclists, and neighbors. Inside sfcityscape.com: a dozen photos of the street, the popular new park at its end, and the neighborhood reborn when someone got the idea that urban freeways are not necessarily forever.
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California High-Speed Rail
On November 4, Californians will finally get the opportunity to say yes to a modern rail system. Obviously, we support California High-Speed Rail — we view the bullet train not just as a great way to travel, but as a long-overdue investment that will over time pay for itself many times over, like the UC system or the State Water Project. And for what it's worth, we offer you the future system map at left.
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