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Looks like we’re finally earning out keep as the capital of the Left Coast. New York has one-upped us for too long on reappropriating unused asphalt (thanks to that pesky Janette Sadik-Khan), but San Francisco just unveiled plans for its first street pedstrianization project, at the corner of 17th and Market.
The opinion among my planner friends is that the very low volume of ped traffic on 17th makes this a less than ideal choice. But I’ll bet that it’ll pick up pretty quick, what with all the traffic between the suntanning salon and Twin Peaks bar . . . .
Credit where credit is due – even though one of our roommates works for the city, I found this on the always information Streetsblog.
Just a guess here, but that is a tricky intersection to cross as a ped to go to/from market/castro and this should allow for easier crossovers. The change is likely not simply to get more foot traffic on 17th.
True. I didn’t mean to imply it was a terrible choice, but there are probably other sites that could be more than just glorified cross-walks.