Posted on 03/04/2021 2:47:12 PM PST by Vendome
The plan was simple: Connect the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge via a freeway. It was the 1950s and everyone loved freeways. What could go wrong? Nearly everything.
The Embarcadero Freeway is widely considered one of the biggest mistakes the city ever made. For 32 years, a concrete monstrosity barricaded San Franciscans from the bay waters, shrouded the iconic Ferry Building in smog and made lots of residents very mad. Photographs of it now look like a very different, unsightly city. And while (nearly) everyone hated it, it took an earthquake to tear it down.
Here's the story of the ugliest thing San Francisco ever built (until the Salesforce Tower).
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I believe Piglosi was Baltimore made. She was never a California native to begin with.
I stand partially corrected. You can go through SF to Oakland on Interstate, but not north. 101/I5 are on surface streets to get to Golden Gate Bridge. Like you, I haven’t been there for a long time. There used to be a freeway that was never completed—sections ended in the air.
They should rebuild it, so travelers don't have to wade through a cesspool, manure pile, swamp, ... and a bathhouse or two.
You don’t hear that every day.
They should worry about cleaning up the homeless encampments along with the crap and syringes on the sidewalks first.
In its day back in the 1980’s Koyaanisqatsi was cutting edge.
There were quite a few nights in college when Koyaanisqatsi was in the VHS.
Why build condos? there is about to be a bunch of high-rise space available, a LOT. Start turning them into condos.
That’s a classic case study of filthy east coast liberal scum polluting a previously glorious state.
Downtown to exurb expressways are usually pushed by a politically powerful alliance of downtown property owners and business interests trying to revive or preserve a downtown by boosting its road access no matter the cost or merit of the project. The result is a lot of bad and expensive expressways.
And voting for the same GOP Rinos again and again is not going to fix it.
Trump should start a new party. Unless he has a plan to get rid of all the Rinos in primaries.
After the S&L/oil crash of the late 80s, that’s what happened to a lot of the downtown Dallas office buildings - apartments, condos, and hotels. Of course, it took almost a quarter of a century for some of them.
Fidelity Union Life Insurance Building
First National Bank tower
One Dallas Center
Republic Tower
Magnolia Oil building
Tower Petroleum Building
Corrigan Building
Mercantile National Bank Building
the original LTV Tower
Lone Star Gas
A couple were demolished for a Baptist church expansion.
There may be more - those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. A couple of others house servers now.
And the department stores ended up respectively residential, residential, a junior college, and headquarters for the transit agency.
Drives me nuts Another posting about a picture without posting one.
Pic is Getty
No can do...
Memphis has interstate traffic go around the edges of it. They kept Poplar and Union Avenue for going straight thru it.
Yes, I think my dad bought a couple of condos downtown during that period.
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