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By: beccahg

beccahg — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:20:02 +0000

At 7:10 this morning, thinking of you all, I rode the smooth (bike path-less) stretch of Valencia Street around 14th and 15th before rattling my way up the rest of the street to work. It was lovely. Thanks for all the good info on construction plans - now I’m looking forward to awesome functional utilities, forests of bike racks, and the McCoppin-U-Haul Memorial Park.

By: jbeaman

jbeaman — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:22:43 +0000

it sucks now but jessica is right. it’s going to be super rad in 2009.

By: Allan

Allan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:03:33 +0000

the park thing sounds cool

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By: jessica

jessica — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:46:01 +0000

I live on Valencia, and I got a flier a couple months ago detailing the endless road repair/construction, which is slated to go on until 2009. It’s part of a long-term “Valencia Beautification” project that (supposedly) will result in wider sidewalks, more bike racks and new trees, from 14th all the way down to Cesar Chavez. They are resurfacing the road ahead of this. A second phase will go north to Market and include the addition of a new park at that weird McCoppin/U-Haul dead end on the way to the Octavia path. I am also not a fan of the perpetual nightmare that has been this work, given that it starts outside my window at 7am. However, it does seem the the intended outcome is a positive one. Hopefully this info will help everyone else to tolerate it too.

By: hereandthereblog

hereandthereblog — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:42:35 +0000

I’m not sure the construction on Valencia has so much to do with why it would be dangerous. SF is just a dangerous town to ride a bike (or walk, or drive a car) in because there’s such transportation chaos. By that, I mean that there’s no established hierarchy. No one mode of transportation effectively yields right-of-way to any other.

By: chuckles

chuckles — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:16:32 +0000

Yeah, there’s a stretch north of 15th that is repaved–but it’s been over two weeks and the bike path still hasn’t reappeared. Smooth–but more dangerous.

By: no one in particular

no one in particular — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:06:49 +0000

Yeah, I think between 14th and 15th is brand new paved beauty. Seeing that makes me almost think all the construction is worth it. If the whole street ends up like that? Wow.