Octavia Boulevard
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Octavia Boulevard is a broad San Francisco, California, street that replaced the Hayes Valley portion of the damaged and disliked two-level Central Freeway. Once a portion of Octavia Street alongside shadowy, fenced-off land beneath the elevated U.S. Route 101 roadway, Octavia Boulevard was redeveloped and redesigned to better use the freeway's right-of-way for additional street space and new housing.
The street, which opened in September 2005, is a form of multiway boulevard, which contains multiple roadways that separate local and through traffic. On Octavia, homes and businesses located immediately on the street are served by the outer roadways, while lanes leading to and from the rebuilt Central Freeway spur connect with the inner roadways. Having replaced a freeway, the boulevard distributes traffic smoothly and evenly throughout the immediate neighborhood, while maintaining the links to the major San Francisco traffic arterials that the old elevated freeway used to connect to directly, including Fell and Oak Streets (which serve the city's western neighborhoods) and Franklin and Gough Streets (which serve northern neighborhoods and the Golden Gate Bridge).
North of Hayes Street, Octavia continues as Octavia Street through the Western Addition, Pacific Heights and Marina neighborhoods to Bay Street, at Fort Mason.
Other freeway-removal projects in the San Francisco Bay due to seismic stability (or collapse) include the replacement of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, the reuse of the collapsed Cypress Structure's right-of-way in neighboring Oakland.
External links
- [SFCityscape.com: Octavia Boulevard]
- ["Where the Highway Ends," Metropolis Magazine, June 13, 2005]
- [Market & Octavia Neighborhood Plan] City & County of San Francisco.
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