Planning Association for the Richmond, SF

Doyle Drive Construction: WEEKEND MORNING CLOSURES OF RAMPS TO SOUTHBOUND HIGHWAY 1

The off-ramps from Highway 101 to southbound Highway 1 will be closed from 5:30am to 11:30am during four weekends in fall 2009 (August 22-23, September 12-13, September 19-20, and September 26-27) in order to conduct tree removal in preparation for the Doyle Drive Replacement Project. These ramp closures are required to safely remove trees encroaching on the roadway. Northbound Highway 1 will remain open. A printable PDF advisory has been posted on the Doyle Drive project website.

Work on the replacement of Doyle Drive has begun. Expect a variety of closures to affect the Richmond District through 2013.

Meeting on Geary BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) Monday, July 27 at 7pm

A meeting on the proposed Geary Bus Rapid Transit Project, co-hosted by District 1 Supervisor Mar and the San Francisco Country Transportation Authority, will be held this coming Monday, July 27th from 7-9pm. The meeting will take place at the Richmond Recreation Center gymnasium, 251 18th Avenue between California and Clement.

This is a great opportunity to learn about the three alternatives currently being studied and to ask any questions you may have.

Contact Supervisor Mar's office (marstaff@sfgov.org) if you have questions.

Doyle Drive Construction to Begin Soon: Important Meeting July 23

Because it will be partially financed with federal "economic stimulus funds", the reconstruction of Doyle Drive will be starting next month and, although anticipated to take about three and a half years, it is expected to unfold very, very rapidly. The overall project will be under the supervision of Caltrans.  

Caltrans has engaged Centerpoint to  help get the word out about construction schedules, road closures, and detours among other issues surrounding the implementation of this project that may affect members of the public using that and neighboring roadways.

 At last week's meeting of the Neighborhood Associations for Presidio Planning (NAPP), representatives of Caltrans and Centerpoint made their first power point presentation on that impending project. The presentation, initially planned to last no more than fifteen minutes, contained so much information and generated so many questions that it took almost one hour and it still had to be terminated prematurely because of time constraints.

 Because of the urgency of this information to residents of the Richmond District and others who frequently use Doyle Drive and surrounding roads and because the agenda for PAR's July 15th general membership meeting is already extremely tight, PAR members will simply be informed of Caltrans/Centerpoint's first public informational meeting on that subject scheduled for:

Thursday, July 23, 2009

6:00-8:00 p.m.

Fort Mason Center (Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street)

Landmark Building A Conference Center

Golden Gate Room

San Francisco, CA 94123

Please put this meeting on your schedules and consult www.doyledrive.org for additional information as it is posted.

Geary BRT Meeting this Thursday, April 2

What:    Meeting #5 of Geary BRT Citizens Advisory Committee for the environmental analysis

When:    Thursday, April 2 at 6pm.

Where: The meeting will be held at the Authority offices located at 100 Van Ness Avenue, 26th Floor.

The meeting agenda and materials can be downloaded at http://www.GearyBRT.org

At its February 2009 meeting, the GCAC unanimously approved the alternatives screening framework, which will be used to narrow the full set of alternatives proposed during the scoping period to a limited set of alternatives to be analyzed in the EIR/EIS. In order to assess each alternative's performance in addressing the purpose of and need for the project, the framework applies several screening criteria—including consideration of bicycle access, per the GCAC's February action. Authority staff will present the draft results of the screening assessment at the April 2 meeting.

In addition, the meeting will address complex intersections on Geary Blvd. The Authority seeks to determine the most feasible designs for BRT at the complex intersections—Fillmore and Masonic—and plans to seek public input regarding the conceptual designs. The first opportunity will be at an April 25 community workshop in Japantown, which will be hosted by the Planning Department's Better Neighborhood Planning team.