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Caltrain to Go Electric Starting in 2019 SKOS Summer Tips Jewish Needs for Tourists Film Festival INSIDE Volunteers p.18 p.24 p.7 p.8 p.17 p. 23 p. 27 JULY 2014 Serving the Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, Mission Bay and SOMA Neighborhoods Since 1970 FREE Caltrain to Go Electric Starting in 2019 Neighbors Weigh In BY REBEKAH MOAN on Warriors Arena Caltrain is being upgraded, in ways that may provide better service to Move to Mission Bay Potrero Hill and South-of-Market resi- BY SASHA LEKACH dents, according to a representative of the commuter rail line. But some Southside When the Golden State Warriors residents have lingering concerns about announced that they were scraping the system’s ability to absorb a growing plans to build a basketball arena on number of riders. San Francisco’s waterfront in favor of a The Caltrain Modernization Pro- Mission Bay location, many Southside gram, currently underway, has three residents let out a sigh of relief. Under parts. The first is a federally-mandated the team’s latest proposal, an 18,000-seat enhanced signal system dubbed CBOSS venue, which had been slated for Port —Communications Based Overlay Signal property on Piers 30-32, will instead System—that’ll add positive train con- be built on private land bounded by trols to the system. “Positive train control Terry Francois Boulevard, 16th, Third, is a system that will automatically stop PHOTOGRAPH BY DON NOLTE and South streets. The initial plans trains that are going too fast; it will stop done at night to avoid interfering with of the timing and work locations via were announced in 2012, and entailed trains if there’s a train ahead of another train service and to minimally affect mailers and fliers as well. constructing a behemoth structure train on the train tracks; and it will stop neighbors. The third part of the modernization essentially floating above the Bay, block- the trains if an engineer misses a red According to Caltrain’s communica- program entails replacing Caltrain’s die- ing waterfront views, and changing the signal,” said Christine Dunn, public tions manager Jayme Ackemann, “This sel trains with high-performance electric City skyline. information officer for Caltrain. “It’s a is pretty low impact work as far as these trains, called “electric multiple units.” In April, the Warriors purchased safety system, and we are mandated by kinds of projects go because really all The first electric trains are scheduled to a 12-acre Mission Bay parcel from the federal government to have that in we’re doing right now is laying fiber be in operation by 2019. “Because these Salesforce.com as part of a long and place by the end of 2015.” optics cable. It’s just we’re prepping the are electric, there will be considerably hard-sought effort to move the National CBOSS installation has begun in the ground and we move through pretty less noise, dramatically reduced air pol- Basketball Association team to San corridor; right now work is being done quickly so there shouldn’t be long-term lution [by between 56 and 84 percent], Francisco and out of Oakland’s Oracle in Redwood City. A compressor bores a construction work going on in that and that will be a positive benefit for the Arena, where the team currently plays. small hole into the ground of the right of location.” community whether they take the train Although design elements are still way, conduit is pulled through the hole, There’ll be more construction-relat- or not,” Dunn said. “We’ll also be able to being worked out, the site is suitably and fiber optic cable is pulled through the ed impacts when Caltrain begins the sec- offer more service, and the reason we’ll zoned. If the proposed building is conduit. CBOSS installation will begin ond part of its modernization program: be able to do that is because it takes less similar to the renderings for the now- in San Francisco later this year. Nearby electrification. Electric infrastructure, time to stop and start an electric train, scraped waterfront site it should fall residents will be notified via a mailer including substations, overhead wires, so we’ll able to operate more trains, and within existing height limits and other when the work is scheduled to take place and poles will be installed starting in at the 22nd Street station. The work is 2016. The community will be kept abreast CALTRAIN page 26 WARRIORS page 5 Voices from District 10: More Parking, The View Needs Your Help! Affordable Like all print media, our adver- Housing Needed tising revenue has been ham- mered by the Internet, while BY SARA BLOOMBERG our expenses — rent, delivery, Five challengers—including Ed printing — have gone up. If you Donaldson, Tony Kelly, Shawn Rich- value having a neighborhood ard, and Marlene Tran—are compet- newspaper, please consider a ing against incumbent Malia Cohen to represent District 10 on the San tax deductible donation to: San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The Francisco Community Power, candidates all must grapple with how to develop political strategies 2325 Third Street, Suite 344, that resonate throughout one of the San Francisco, California 94107. most diverse sets of neighborhoods Market and Mission Bay. These District 10 residents voice their views All proceeds will go to paying in the City, which stretches from The availability of affordable on page four. Clockwise, Doyle Colbert, Devory Potrero Hill to Visitacion Valley. The and low-income housing is a key Wilson live in Bayview. George Orlando Smith and for reporters, editors, photogra- issue throughout the district, as Tim Garafola live in Potrero Hill. PHOTOGRAPHS BY district is home to roughly 8.6 per- phers, and designers. cent of San Francisco’s population, is economic prosperity—whether SARA BLOOMBERG but is growing faster than almost related to joblessness or income any other area outside South-of- equality—access to education, and VOICES page 4 2 THE POTRERO VIEW July 2014 oday my friend posted “North we went, whether it was to a museum, to “Tor South?” on her social net- another town or to spend the day at the working site. I knew what that meant: she Road Trip Jealousy beach. was getting ready to grab her son, get in The destination was never the most the car and enjoy the day. Jealousy crept BY SHELAH MOSS important thing; the time spent together into my heart. My friend and I are at dif- was the real destination. I used to call those ferent stages of our parenting adventure. moments “time out of time.” They were the My daughter is grown; her son is a young moments when the rest of the world fell boy. It’s a pleasure to see my friend and her away, when all that mattered was who we son enjoying his childhood. It reminds me were with, and having fun. There were no of when my daughter was small and we, hard and fast rules to those road trips. If too, would jump in the car on our way to we passed a place that looked interesting, another adventure. we stopped. If we felt like having a picnic, I miss those times. They remind me of we did. Driving home from a road trip in when I was a child, and my family would a rain storm one time, Liisa said that she take road trips. I miss those vacations, felt like dancing in the rain, so we stopped even though my oldest sister, Elise, often and danced. got carsick, which dampened the pleasure Liisa is grown-up now. I’m fortunate a bit, but made for great teasing later. Road Harriet, Elise, Marissa, Shelah, and Steven Moss, circa 1970. that she’ll still take road trips with me. trips make lasting memories, and drew us But it’s not the same. Our road trips together. usually include more restaurants than picnics, more When I was a child my parents would pile the four— manicures than rain dances. Her own road trips have ultimately five—of us into the car and go. When I say, become more sophisticated, involving planes and travels “pile in the car” I mean that literally. This was before to far-away places; dancing in the rain with other people. the days of child car seats and mandatory seatbelts. My And that makes me happy, too. brother, Steven, and I often occupied the back of the Now, I pile in the car with my husband to enjoy our station wagon, and made up games to play involving own road trips. It reminds me of a time before children, unwitting cars passing by on their own road trip. The a time of romance and adventure and that makes me drive itself was sometimes torturous, involving a father happy. who drove too fast, terrifying my next oldest sister. The But today I’m jealous of my friend. I’m jealous that smell of old vomit from Elise often made itself known. Liisa Pullinen she gets her own road trip to make more memories Steven and I would often squirm because my father was in too much of a hurry with her child. to stop for bathroom breaks. But the destination was always worth the trip, and Thank goodness for grandchildren. the memories, good and bad, are lasting a lifetime. Shelah Moss works with autistic children. For more of her musings, as well as tips When my daughter, Liisa, was younger, I’d pile her in the car—it was a small and exercises for kids with special needs, go to mosswoodconnections.com. Steven Moss, pile since she’s an only child—and go on our own road trip.
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