Proposed bike share stations for Sunnyside

Bay Area Bike Share (http://www.bayareabikeshare.com) recently put up their map of proposed Phase 4 bike stations, which included these sites for Sunnyside. More info about the program in this related post: https://sunnysideassociation.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/bike-share-coming-to-sunnyside

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See entire map here: http://www.bayareabikeshare.com/assets/pdf/SF_Phase_4_Map.jpg

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First step for pedestrian safety at Baden and Hearst

One of the intersections called out as dangerous to walkers and cyclists in SNA’s winning pedestrian safety proposal in the recent round of Participatory Budgeting was Baden Street and Hearst Avenue. This week a DPW contractor began work on the first step toward better safety for vulnerable road users here: installing ADA (yellow bumpy) ramps on each of the corners. Are painted crosswalks next?

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Baden St. at Hearst Ave. Construction on ADA ramps. May 30th 2017

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Presentation of Proposals for the Balboa Reservoir on Saturday June 10

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Balboa Reservoir Project poster, June 10, 2017 community meeting
Presentation of Proposals for the Balboa Reservoir, Communiyt Meeting, Saturday, June 10, 2017, 10 am – 1 pm, Archibishop Riordan High School Cafeteria, 175 Phelan Ave, SF CA

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SF Examiner: City Hall flooded with complaints over SF’s new mixed drinking water

Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing that took place yesterday about the groundwater issue, which impacts Sunnyside. Article source: SF Examiner http://www.sfexaminer.com/city-hall-flooded-complaints-sfs-new-mixed-drinking-water/.

City Hall flooded with complaints over SF’s new mixed drinking water

(Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
(Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)

By Joshua Sabatini on May 25, 2017 1:00 am

Complaints are flooding City Hall as word spreads that San Francisco’s beloved Hetch Hetchy drinking water is being mixed with less pristine groundwater.

So many, in fact, that Supervisor Norman Yee was compelled to call Wednesday’s hearing to ask the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to address the myriad of concerns, from the safety of the water to the need for the change.

Four wells pulling up water 450 feet below in the West Basin Aquifer are in the testing phase and by summer to early fall, 1 million gallons daily of underground water will go into the system. The plan is to reach 4 million gallons daily by 2020, 15 percent of the water supply delivered to some 60 percent of the water users.

One well, located by Lake Merced, pumped water into the system over two days in April. The other wells will be tested in June and July.

During the two-hour hearing Wednesday, mothers worried about the impacts on their young children, some residents said they felt like guinea pigs and others referred to the added groundwater as contamination. Some are calling on The City to halt the effort altogether.     Continue reading “SF Examiner: City Hall flooded with complaints over SF’s new mixed drinking water”