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In a lane diet, the width of a car lane is decreased to reduce vehicle speeds and accidents [3] and provide space for other use. [4] Typically vehicular travel lane widths are narrowed to no more than 2.8 metres (9.1 ft), [5] and left turn (in countries where cars travel on the right-hand side of the road) storage lanes between 2.7 and 3.0 metres (9 and 10 ft). [6]
Portola Drive is the extension of Market Street into the south and western portion of San Francisco; San Jose Avenue, a major commuter road, brings thousands of cars into San Francisco every day (aka the Bernal Cut) Van Ness Avenue acts as US 101 through the heart of San Francisco from the Central Freeway towards the northern section of the ...
Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill). Most of Lombard Street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101.
Before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Van Ness Avenue was known as "the city’s grandest boulevard, lined with Victorian mansions and impressive churches" (San Francisco Chronicle). [6] After the earthquake, the street was used as a firebreak by the US Army , dynamiting almost all buildings on its eastern side in an ultimately successful ...
San Francisco could get 90% of its homeless off the streets with the country’s fiercest housing speculation tax, but landlords are already fighting it tooth and nail Irina Ivanova October 21 ...
The 1948 Transportation Plan for San Francisco, prepared by De Leuw, Cather and Company, included the Central Freeway. This elevated roadway would begin at the Bayshore Freeway – the approach to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge – near Division Street and head west and north around the periphery of downtown San Francisco.
345 California Center (Loews Regency San Francisco) 400 California Street (Bank of California Building) 465 California Street (Merchants Exchange Building) 555 California Street (Bank of America Center) 580 California Street; 650 California Street (Hartford Building) Sing Chong and Sing Fat buildings at Grant and California, in Chinatown; 600 ...
The oldest alley in San Francisco, Ross Alley was considered to be one of the main locations for brothels, especially during the days of the Barbary Coast. [2] [3] Women were brought to the slave dens and served against their will. [4] [5] Ross Alley was also notorious for highbinders and gambling dens in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.