July 25: Balboa Park Station Area Community Advisory Committee Meeting

Meeting takes place at City College Multi-Use Building,  at Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 6:00 pm Full info here.

On the agenda (which is reproduced in full at end of this post) is the subject of changes planned for the Ocean Ave/I-280 interchange. PDF summary here. Images below are from this document.

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From https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/agendaitems/2017/SFCTA%20I-280%20Interchange%2072517%20meeting.pdf

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Next round of microsurfacing — just one block in Sunnyside

Dept of Public Works released their list of streets slated for “microsurfacing” repaving in the next few months. The only block to be affected in Sunnyside is Gennessee St between Monterey and Joost. More information here: http://www.sfpublicworks.org/project/micro-surfacing-pavement-preservation-program

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SFMTA Weekend Traffic Advisory: Balboa Park track work and Sunday Streets in the Mission

Traffic advisory from SFMTA, excerpt below. Full traffic advisory for the weekend here https://www.sfmta.com/news/press-releases/sfmta-weekend-transit-and-traffic-advisory


NEW:  BART’S Trackway Work at Balboa Park Station

Sunday, July 16:  Crews from BART will conduct work on an improvement project at the Balboa Park Station that will require a day of single-tracking at the station.

During construction, the Westside Walkway that spans from Ocean Avenue to the station fare gates will be open to foot traffic, however patrons will not be able to access the station from those fare gates because the contractor will be working in that area. Patrons will need to continue down the foot path and up the small set of stairs parallel to I280 and the west side of the Balboa Park station toward Geneva.    Continue reading “SFMTA Weekend Traffic Advisory: Balboa Park track work and Sunday Streets in the Mission”

Beyond Chron on Balboa Reservoir Proposals

Here is a recent article published in Beyond Chron about the Balboa Reservoir Project proposals, advocating maximizing the total number of housing units.

“Will SF Go Big” : http://www.beyondchron.org/will-sf-go-big/

And a reply Letter to the Editor: http://www.beyondchron.org/to-the-editor-246/

The actual proposals themselves are available online to public viewing here: http://sfwater.org/balboa/proposals      Continue reading “Beyond Chron on Balboa Reservoir Proposals”

Opportunity for traffic calming for your street from SFMTA

From Supervisor Norman Yee’s office:

SFMTA is currently accepting traffic calming applications until June 30. I encourage all of you to apply to improve the safety of our streets.

SFMTA | San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Residential Traffic Calming application deadline approaching

Want to reduce speeding on your street? The Traffic Calming team at the SFMTA would like to help!      Continue reading “Opportunity for traffic calming for your street from SFMTA”