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Glen Park News Spring 2013 Spring 2013 Volume 31, no. 1 Saddle Trail Upgrades Make Glen Canyon Slopes Easier to Trek he Saddle Trail, which runs placed,” he said then. “Rain and the along the rocky northeastern hardness of the chert slowed the work.” T slope of Glen Canyon Park, has A week later, workers continued haul- been given a labor-intensive makeover ing materials up the work-in-progress. to reduce hillside erosion and make that Then, on March 1, the entire project was finished, ready for Glen Canyon by part of the 70-acre neigh- Park day-trippers to enjoy. Murray borhood parkland more Schneider accessible for visitors. “This is an incredibly rocky hillside,” The project, part of said Mike Hawley, a 30-year construc- the San Francisco Recreation and Park tion veteran. He pointed to a worker Department’s Natural Areas Program, below him slinging a sledgehammer which began on Jan. 16 with construc- and another wrestling a bucking jack- tion of 62 box steps along the canyon’s hammer. Hawley hails from Yosemite, eastern hillside, was completed on where he has decades of experience March 1, after work crews from Yerba building mountain steps: “This is a Buena Construction Co. spent the steep slope and these guys did great month of February building a series work.” of narrower stringer steps that stretch The earlier Saddle Trail Project com- along a western slope of the area. ponent had positioned 62 box steps on Christopher Campbell, a Rec and the eastern canyon slope, which now Park Natural Area Program manager, allow hikers to ascend from the Willow inspected the stringer step construction Loop Trail to a series of switchbacks work on Feb. 20, more than halfway that punctuate two chert outcroppings through that portion of the project: 120 feet above the canyon floor. “Altogether, 26 steps have now been ContiNueD oN Page 11 New Saddle Trail steps improve hillside access. Photo by Liz Mangelsdorf. Glen Park association MeetinG Muggings Keep Glen Park on the Alert Thursday, April 11th at 7 p.m. he request seemed innocent took his cell phone, wallet and shoes. street and the man followed, walking St. John School, 925 Chenery St. enough: A stranger approached That happened on Feb. 27, just after 11 faster and getting closer. Another man The agenda, still being planned at our T a man and asked for the time. p.m., at Chenery and Roanoke streets. ran toward her from across the street. press time, will include matters of interest When the man looked down at his Seven weeks earlier, on Jan. 9. around She was boxed in as the two assailants and importance to Glen Park residents. watch, the stranger grabbed the laptop 8:30 p.m., near Richland Avenue worked in tandem and reached for her from under his arm and and Miguel Street, neighbors heard purse and backpack. by rachel ordered the now-victim a woman screaming for help; she was “one of the suspects then grabbed gordon to get down on the being robbed. Multiple calls to 911 her from behind and held her in a choke UPcoMinG events ground. brought the police, but by the time hold. The victim then yelled out for Glen Park festival The victim “felt something pushing they arrived the suspects had fled. help but the same suspect covered her Sunday, april 28 ~ pg. 2 on the back of his head causing him to Still shaken, the victim told officers mouth to prevent her from screaming,” Garden tour fall to the ground,” according to the that as she was walking home from the according to the police account. They Sunday, april 28 ~ pg. 8 police report. Then, “two more suspects Glen Park BART station, across the grabbed her purse and fled, jumping farmers’ market appeared and used their foot to pin the Richland bridge, she noticed someone into a van to make their getaway. She Sunday, March 31 ~ pg. 8 victim’s head to the ground.” The thugs had come up close behind her and she suffered a bloody nose in the attack. rifled through their mark’s pockets and sensed danger. She said she crossed the ContiNueD oN Page 13 HaNdLiNg Bag Fee with eaSe ~ Pg. 4 a dog-FrieNdLy gyM Opens ~ Pg. 5 a CarPenter BuiLdS HiS dreaM ~ Pg. 6 2 Glen Park news | spring 2013 M < glen park newS news from city hall The Glen Park News is published improving Muni service is a top pri- posals to increase Muni’s speed focus on While there are no proposed route quarterly by the Glen Park Asso- ority for me and for many people in improvements to corridors used by the changes for the 44-o’Shaughnessy, fre- ciation. Signed articles are the Glen Park. For Glen Park residents, busiest bus lines and rail routes. quency improvements will lead to the opinions of the authors and not reliable Muni service one of the key candidates for No. 44 running every 8 minutes dur- by necessarily those of the Glen Park is essential to connect- improvement in our district is the ing peak periods instead of the current Supervisor Association. Scott ing to other parts of J-Church between Balboa Park and the 9 minutes. wiener the city, whether rid- Church/Duboce intersection. Several The TeP is now undergoing envi- editor-in-Chief Rachel gordon ing the J to Noe Valley changes are being considered, including ronmental review, and the draft envi- or Market Street, or taking the No. 44 replacing four all-way stop-controlled ronmental impact report is expected to deputy editor Gail Bensinger up over Twin Peaks and into the Sun- intersections with traffic signals, adding be released this summer. Muni will be set. Many of us are fighting for more a transit-only lane on Church Street, conducting community outreach start- Copy editor Denis wade funding for Muni maintenance and ser- adding a pedestrian bulb-out at 30th ing in a few months. You also can check vice improvements, while also pushing and Chenery, creating a new outbound the website at www.sfmta.com/tep to Photo editor Liz Mangelsdorf Muni to making internal operational boarding island at San Jose Avenue at find out more about the plan, to sign and system reforms to provide a better Santa Rosa, and creating more consis- up for the TeP e-mail list, and to read design editor Jack orsulak experience for riders. tent stop spacing. These changes aim the most recent quarterly TeP newslet- one way we are working to improve to reduce the J’s travel time between ter. online editor Elizabeth weise Muni service is through implementa- Duboce and Balboa Park by 12 percent, The TeP is an important program tion of the Municipal Transportation or 6 1/2 minutes. for the Glen Park neighborhood, the advertising Nora dowley Agency’s Transit effectiveness Project Another proposal would extend the district and the City. it will help get (TeP). The TeP is a holistic approach 35-eureka to the Glen Park BART Sta- us closer to having the reliable, effi- distribution to improve Muni’s system-wide reliabil- tion via Diamond Heights Boulevard cient transit system that San Francisco Manager Murray Schneider ity and to provide faster trips for rid- and Diamond Street, in order to pro- deserves. Community participation and ers. The primary improvements being vide a direct connection between the feedback are essential in this process. s reporters Mary Betlach studied under the TeP fall into two cat- Castro Muni station and Glen Park Gail Bensinger egories: service changes, and proposals BART. The No. 35 would turn around Scott Wiener represents District 8, includ- Susanne derisi to increase bus speed. Service changes near Glen Park BART using Wilder, ing Glen Park, on the San Francisco Rachel gordon include rerouting bus lines, changing Arlington, Bosworth and Diamond Board of Supervisors. To receive Super- Jeanne Halpern roadway design and bus stop placement, Streets. The segment of the 35 along visor Wiener’s monthly newsletter or to Murray Schneider increasing bus frequency and changing Farnum, Moffit, Bemis and Addison follow him on Twitter or Facebook, go to Denis wade the kinds of vehicles Muni uses. Pro- would be eliminated. www.scottwiener.com Bonnee waldstein Columnists Marc dickow Kay Hamilton estey Glen Park Festival Promises April Fun Monika Lewis Michael rice he 15th annual Glen Park Fes- more than 50 booths of local artists, for the library at Fairmount elemen- Denise Sanderson tival will be held this year on craftspeople and community organiza- tary, including fiction and non-fiction Leah Tarlen Sunday, April 28, with lots of tions. Be sure to bring the kids to the books in Spanish and english; an after- Shelley wharton T music, crafts booths, good eats and children’s entertainment area on Wilder school enrichment project developing Smith community-building on tap. Street and to the new children’s games a new mural at Glen Park elementary Elizabeth weise The popular neighborhood event booth at the corner of Diamond and School; play materials at Glenridge Scott wiener Kern Streets. Cooperative Nursery School, includ- by will get under way at 10 a.m. and wrap up at each year, proceeds from the Festival ing a new water activity table and dado Photographers Liz Mangelsdorf Susanne 4:30 p.m. in the heart of are awarded to schools and organiza- building squares; gardening and science Jack orsulak derisi down town Glen Park. tions that work with children in the equipment for the new Garden and Linda Peebles This year’s festival will feature a lively Glen Park area. environmental education Program at Murray Schneider day of music on the main stage on Dia- The festival’s annual raffle and T-shirt Sunnyside elementary School; develop- Denis wade mond Street near Chenery, with local sales are two of the major fundraising ment of an on-site sustainable garden at Michael waldstein music star Misisipi Mike Wolf return- vehicles for the grant program.
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