San Francisco’s Residential Parking Permit Program Wants to Hear from You4 Open Houses Scheduled For February & March 2016 The SFMTA wants to hear your ideas on how to update and improve its Residential Parking Permit program. The program has been largely unchanged for 39 years, even as San Francisco has changed considerably. The SFMTA […]
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SJA Open House Summary
San Jose Avenue Road Diet final open house January, 19, 2016 Glen Park Elementary School SFMTA and Caltrans had up boards describing 1) changes to Dolores where it meets San Jose Avenue, 2) the changes to SJA, 3) three options for fixing the freeway offramp and 4) some data. A spokesman said those boards would […]
Highland Bridge project update
Highland Avenue Bridge – Project update from Grace Moore, DPW, Grace.Moore@sfdpw.org Dear Neighbors Phase I; traffic railing work is almost completed. This week you may see crews removing construction debris, restoring parking along Arlington Street and finish installing 4 new street lights. (see details below) Phase II; security fencing design work is completed. The […]
D8 Safety Meeting
Thanks to Chris Faust of Upper Noe Neighbors (and more) for writing up this summary of the D8 Safety Meeting held Thursday: District 8 Safety Meeting January 14, 2016 – 6 pm Saint Philip the Apostle community room 725 Diamond St. San Francisco Jean Elle of NBC Bay Area was there. The story is at […]
GPA quarterly meeting
Glen Park Association quarterly meeting Date: January 21, 2016 Time: 7:00 PM Place: The San Francisco Police Academy at 350 Amber Drive There are some road blockages, so we suggest using the following route: 1. Go up Diamond Heights Blvd. to Duncan Street. 2. Go left on Duncan Street, and continue on Duncan past the construction at […]
Hot history on a cold day in Glen Park
Story and photos by Murray Schneider This winter 18 San Franciscans braved cold temperatures that dipped into the forties and listened to Evelyn Rose of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project spin tales from Glen Canyon’s past on one of her patented Glen Park history walks. Rose, who writes a Glen Park News […]
Diamond/Bosworth update
From Kelley McCoy, SFMTA PR: I wanted to reach out and give a brief update about where we are on the last leg of the Glen Park Project: · We are still waiting on the final contractor’s schedule for the northeast (former Citibank building) corner. For now, there is no work planned for that corner. […]
San Jose Avenue pilot project update
SFMTA has uploaded its final analysis of the Northbound San Jose Avenue Road Diet pilot plan, which began in June, 2014, when the agency reduced the three-lane road to two lanes to slow traffic and increase safety. (A second phase merged the two-lane offramp to one lane under the underpass.) You can see it here: […]
Brazen taggers in Glen Park
By Elizabeth Weise How brazen are graffiti taggers in San Francisco? More than you could possibly imagine, found Glen Park resident Kevin Jones. On Saturday, Dec. 26, in broad daylight, Jones was standing in line to use the Bank of American ATM across the street from Canyon market on Diamond St. As he describes it, […]