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Originally Posted by TouchTheSky13
I'm seeing a pattern here with SF. Tear down a freeway and make it a boulevard, and then redevelop former waterfront industrial sites into thriving mixed use neighborhoods.
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You've just about got it. Pretty much all the industrial port activity moved across the Bay to Oakland a century ago because it added an extra day to transporting goods to and from ships docked in San Francisco up the peninsula vs Oakland which has a direct connection to railroads headed east. That left most of the former railroad rights of way as well as associated warehouse and industrial space ripe for redevelopment.
And also because San Francisco is at the tip of a peninsula, building freeways THROUGH the city (as opposed to TO it), was pretty pointless. The only one that ever really made sense--the north/south route up the peninsula and across the Golden Gate Bridge--was never built and has always been a surface boulevard for much of the way inside the city (called Park-Presidio Blvd).