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Traffic cameras coming to Market and Octavia?

Photo of a car/bike accident on Octavia and some questions about how Octavia's intersections are designed.

Possible changes to the dangerous intersection at Oak and Octavia.

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.

A hearing at City Hall on Monday, 7/9/07 regarding Octavia Blvd.

An update on safety of the intersection ant Octavia and Market

-Man who shot Officer Bryan Tuvera is said to have allegedly (allegedly) killed himself and was not killed by Tuvera's partner.

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."

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 will be gently disassembled for artistic reasons that are slightly beyond our comprehension. But unfortunately, until recently, the newly-created loveliness of the area was being marred by a ginormous, ugly chain link fence that had the same effect as the old disused overpass -- it kept people away.

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 a few months, if all goes according to plan, will leave the city with absolutely no discernable evidence of its ever having existed at all.