Bikescape podcast covered protests at this intersection in March 2005 and repeated it Feb., 2007.
As Octavia Boulevard rises from the rubble of the old Central Freeway, Bikescape takes a tour along with about thirty others led by Robin Levitt and Tom Radulovich from Livable City. The walk was jointly sponsored by Walk San Francisco and Transportation for a Livable City.
The downfall of the freeway and the rise of the Boulevard is another chapter on San Francisco's ongoing freeway revolt, a grass-roots movement that goes back to the fifties. San Francisco owes its livability, charm and cohesive community to the individual neighborhood activists who banded together at strategic times to fight the auto culture that was treatening to choke the city with cars and blight. Imagine what almost happened: an elevated freeway on Polk St. and six lanes cut into a trench where the Panhandle an Golden Gate Park now stand! And most of these victories (and some of the losses) squeaked by on six to five votes!
Hit and run. The motorist *did* turn himself in 3+ hours after the fact, claiming he was "recovering from a stroke"?!!
I'm uncertain which is more disturbing: the frequency of bike/car run ins or the impression that a significant number turn out to be hit and runs. Has civility so declined that mowing down another human being is insufficient reason to stop?
Hit and run. The motorist *did* turn himself in 3+ hours after the fact, claiming he was "recovering from a stroke"?!!
I'm uncertain which is more disturbing: the frequency of bike/car run ins or the impression that a significant number turn out to be hit and runs. Has civility so declined that mowing down another human being is insufficient reason to stop?
Selection bias: hit-and-runs are extraordinary accidents (fatal ones even more so) so every one gets reported and is likely to find its way to rbt.
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