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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 ...
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]
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.
With shelters near capacity, Mayor London Breed is ramping up a program to offer homeless people who aren't from San Francisco transportation and relocation services to other cities.
Most cities have homeless problems and lots of vacant housing units, but everything is magnified in San Francisco. Last year, there were 7,700 people living in shelters or on the street in the ...
Looking south along Octavia Street from Jackson Street. This is one of the few blocks in San Francisco still paved in brick. Octavia Boulevard (designated as Octavia Street north of Hayes Street) is a major street in San Francisco, California, United States, that replaced the Hayes Valley portion of the damaged two-level Central Freeway. [1]
The shorter tower, at 512 Mission Street, is planned to climb 605 feet (184 m) and will contain the 169-room Waldorf Astoria San Francisco hotel on the first 21 floors [8] and approximately 154 residential units on the upper 33 floors. [3] [9]
It was the fifth tallest building in San Francisco when it was completed but is no longer in the top 30. [6] One California was one of three buildings, the other two being 555 California Street and McKesson Plaza, that was featured in a 1970 Newsweek article widely thought to have coined the term "Manhattanization". [2]