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New Public Plaza Going in at 17th & Castro
SF Appeal pointed us to this: local architects-for-the-people Public Architecture designed a pedestrian-friendly public plaza for the cable car turnaround at the intersection of Market, Castro and 17th Streets, which is set to open soon. (We sort of doubt that it will be complete and open next month as stated, but hey, we can all dream!)
We know this intersection well, and can attest that we've watched a number of near-misses with drunk kids heading to or from the Café--and been nearly killed ourselves once or twice by cars rolling down from upper Market onto 17th--so we're grateful that the downtown lane of that block of 17th will now be closed to traffic.
This project is a sort of test case, one of 30 selected by the city in an ongoing effort to reclaim public spaces from car traffic and begin the "pedestrianization" of San Francisco.
Now if we can just keep the kamikaze bicyclists from running lights and mowing us down as they shoot through this "plaza," we'll be all set.