Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Central Freeway

Eyes on the Street: McCoppin Transformation in Progress

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 27, 2012 | 3 Comments

Last summer, we wrote about a package of overdue streetscape improvements planned for the neighborhood around McCoppin Street, which would include a public gathering space called the McCoppin Hub adjacent to the Central Freeway. Work on those projects is finally starting to make some profound changes to the neighborhood. Recently installed planted medians have had a noticeable traffic calming […]

Driver Plows Through Bike Corral at Duboce and Valencia, Injuring Man

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 16, 2012 | 16 Comments

A car driver plowed through a bike corral on Saturday in front of Zeitgeist, a bar on the corner of Duboce Avenue and Valencia Street. The driver reportedly stopped and cooperated with police after crashing through 10 of the 11 curbside bike racks, breaking a man’s leg, and wrecking at least a dozen parked bikes, […]

Sena Putra, 47, Killed by Truck Driver at 13th and Folsom

By Aaron Bialick | May 21, 2012 | 24 Comments

Forty-seven year-old Sena Putra was killed by the driver of a gasoline tanker last Thursday at 13th and Folsom Streets under the Central Freeway. He is the seventh pedestrian killed in the city this year. According to the SF Chronicle, police said Putra was in a crosswalk on 13th Street at 12:55 p.m., crossing with […]

Eyes on the Street: SFMTA Stripes the McCoppin Hub Bikeway

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 8, 2011 | 21 Comments

New markings are on the ground delineating the short two-way bikeway linking the Market and Octavia intersection to Valencia Street and the future site of the McCoppin Hub plaza. SFMTA crews made the improvements two weeks ago, according to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. The pedestrian and bicycle shortcut has existed for years, but the new […]

McCoppin Street: From Streetcar Hub to the Central Freeway

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 19, 2011 | 26 Comments

Eight years ago, the Central Freeway fell, and the sky didn’t. The neighborhood long obscured by the structure came up for a year-long breath of air during its reconstruction. Author Carol Lloyd described the transformation in a 2003 San Francisco Chronicle article: The buildings are familiar, but they look brighter, prettier, somehow. There are big swooshes of empty […]

McCoppin Street Residents to Get Overdue Public Spaces

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 18, 2011 | 10 Comments

Residents just north of the Mission District who have lived in the shadow of the Central Freeway are beginning to see a glimmer of light. The city appears poised to move ahead with plans to bring street improvements and green space to the area, including a public plaza at the end of McCoppin Street that abuts the […]

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