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Seems like a good idea on paper, but...
Jul. 24th, 2008 03:49 pmSo one of the 'brilliant ideas' our fearless politicians have up their sleeves is to close down a few streets to cars. One of them, although a potential pain in the butt, does make a bit of sense: closing parts of the Embarcadero from the ball park north past the Ferry Building and up to Washington, and closing that street up to Chinatown (more about that here). The only PITA part of it is that we usually take the Embarcadero when we want to get onto 280, and this would successfully cut us off (well not really--we'd just have to shlep down Van Ness and onto 101, or take side streets down to 280, but still, it would be a PITA).
The latest one, though, is to have them shut down Market Street.
Yeah, I don't think that one's a very good idea. Take a look at this map:
They're thinking of shutting down Market between Justin Herman Plaza (where the Ferry Building is), down to Octavia (where that red line on the Central Skyway ends--this is an old map, btw, it doesn't cross Market anymore :p ).
See the problem? I do. The only streets parallel to Market is in SoMA, so that means that there'd be TONS of traffic on Mission (the first bolded street south of Market), which is tight to begin with. And nothing to the north, and don't get me started on the congestion on THOSE streets during rush hour. And I don't feel like spending an extra hour trying to get home, thank you very much (for the record, that black dot under "San Francisco" on 10th street is pretty much the location of where I work).
Like I said, interesting plan on paper, but not so much on the execution. ;)
The latest one, though, is to have them shut down Market Street.
Yeah, I don't think that one's a very good idea. Take a look at this map:
They're thinking of shutting down Market between Justin Herman Plaza (where the Ferry Building is), down to Octavia (where that red line on the Central Skyway ends--this is an old map, btw, it doesn't cross Market anymore :p ).
See the problem? I do. The only streets parallel to Market is in SoMA, so that means that there'd be TONS of traffic on Mission (the first bolded street south of Market), which is tight to begin with. And nothing to the north, and don't get me started on the congestion on THOSE streets during rush hour. And I don't feel like spending an extra hour trying to get home, thank you very much (for the record, that black dot under "San Francisco" on 10th street is pretty much the location of where I work).
Like I said, interesting plan on paper, but not so much on the execution. ;)
