The Doyle Drive Replacement project received a whopping $46 million in funding. [PDF warning!] Sponsored by the SF County Transportation Authority and California Department of Transportation, the project will help create the new Presidio Parkway, "which includes construction of a high-viaduct structure the Park Presidio Interchange and the SF Nation Cemetery.
Highlights for the new Doyle Drive will include:
- Replacing thing bridge, which is ranked by the Federal Highway Administration as the fifth worst bridge in the nation and the worst in California in terms of structural sufficiency
- Improving seismic and traffic safety
- "Transforming an unsafe and deteriorated road into one that is safe and reflects its setting within the largest urban national park in the nation
Built in 1936, Doyle Drive, among other things, "no longer meets acceptable standards for withstanding earthquakes." This replacement will cause all sorts of traffic headaches for some commuters as crews set up "barricades connecting ramps from northbound Park Presidio (Highway 1) to southbound Doyle (Highway 101)" last night.
