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SFChronicle: plan to fill Geary underpass at Fillmore

plan to fill Geary underpass at Fillmore

A plan to spend as much as $50 million to fill in a Geary Boulevard underpass is getting serious consideration from city officials and community leaders eager to repair some of the damage from San Francisco’s ill-conceived urban renewal projects of the 1950s and ’60s.

The project calls for eliminating the underpass beneath Fillmore Street and restoring the boulevard to the flatter, narrower, more pedestrian-friendly Geary Street that existed before 1961, when it was turned into an eight-lane expressway by the bulldozers that dug the underpass and razed the adjoining homes and businesses in the name of progress.

Wired: Feds Will Require All New Vehicles to Talk to Each Other

The U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have approved V2V communication systems that regulators say will increase safety, reduce accidents and pave the way for connected cars. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said V2V technology could do for motorists in the coming years what seatbelts did in the 1960s and airbags did a generation ago.

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