Entries from SFist tagged with 'octaviaboulevard'
January 28, 2008
Traffic cameras coming to Market and Octavia? ...
Continue Reading "Automated Enforcement Camera Coming to Octavia and Market"
September 27, 2007
Photo of a car/bike accident on Octavia and some questions about how Octavia's intersections are designed. ...
Continue Reading "SFist Photo: Lexus vs. Bike on Confusing Octavia Blvd."September 10, 2007
Possible changes to the dangerous intersection at Oak and Octavia. ...
Continue Reading "SFist Photo: Luxury Car Parking vs. Pedestrian Safety"July 9, 2007
Hey folks, we're back again with our favorites amongst the comments and opinions you, the readership, made about SFist's stories that ran the week of July 1. Despite the weird holiday schedule, there was plenty of excellent conversation. ...
Continue Reading "Top 5 Comments of the Week"July 6, 2007
A hearing at City Hall on Monday, 7/9/07 regarding Octavia Blvd....
Continue Reading "SFist Photo: Octavia Boulevard Betterment - It's On!"March 13, 2007
An update on safety of the intersection ant Octavia and Market...
Continue Reading "Octavia Boulevard update"January 3, 2007
-Man who shot Officer Bryan Tuvera is said to have allegedly (allegedly) killed himself and was not killed by Tuvera's partner....
Continue Reading "Day Around the Bay"December 15, 2005
We love architecture, we love politics and we love San Francisco. Hence, one of our favorite blogs is San Francisco Cityscape, written and maintained by Steve Boland. What started in 2001 as a site that digested news reports about urban planning, now his posts offer more analysis and deeplinks to other relevant information about specific topics. A dedicated urbanist, he advertises tees from Cafepress with slogans like "Stop Sprawl, Grow Up." Of course, if......
Continue Reading "Bay Blogger Thursday"June 27, 2005
Why, June's just busting out all over! The Octavia Boulevard project -- a transformation of an ugly overpass into a lovely public park -- sure has reduced mid-Market's overall sh**tiness. As SFist was among the first to report, the city and the Black Rock Arts Council have celebrated the near-completion of the project by temporarily installing a pretty supergazeebo. The David Best sculpture is slated to stay up until August, at which point it......
Continue Reading "Public Space; Keep Out"April 18, 2005
Once it's finished later this year, Octavia Boulevard -- that eastern-edge-of-the-Castro strip where once squatted a disused offramp -- will be a sort of lasting, permanent demonstration of SF's long-held disdain for urban interstates, as well as an ecologically friendly memorial to what was once a divisive highway. Meanwhile, The SF Arts Commission, The Black Rock Arts Foundation, and David Best are scurrying to erect a new structure on nearby Hayes Green that in......
Continue Reading "The Gates: West Coast Version"