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Glen Park News Winter 2020 WINTER 2020 VOLUME 38, NO. 4 Muni Adds Bus-Only Lanes in Glen Park ith the Covid-19 pandemic dor is among eight thoroughfares that The temporary lanes will be removed emergency plan in June, and meant still raging after almost a serve five critical bus lines. They were 120 days after the emergency order is to be put in place quickly—as early as W year in which the city has selected based on projected travel time lifted, unless there is a public process August—yet the implementation date been under a state of emergency, and savings, as well as the hospitals, essential to make a lane permanent. for the 44 line is not until the end of widespread vaccination months away, workplaces and low-income, transit- An irony of the timing of the pro- 2020 at the earliest. more and more drivers dependent communities they serve. gram is that it was designated as an CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 by have taken to their cars Bonnee to avoid exposure to the Waldstein virus. Concerned about Mosaic Project Gets a Step Closer increased traffic con- gestion when the city reopens post- pandemic, SFMTA has developed a program it contends will expedite the flow of public transit through busy cor- ridors, thus encouraging people to ride public transit. It would protect people who rely on transit from increased exposure to Covid-19 on slow or crowded buses. The plan calls for the creation of tem- porary emergency transit lanes, known in transit jargon as TETLs, to include buses, light rail and taxis. It’s unclear whether private buses and hospital shut- tles will be allowed to use the TETLs. By the end of 2020 or early 2021, sec- tions of the 44-O’Shaughnessy bus route will be striped and stenciled with white paint to indicate that they are bus-only lanes. One Glen Park bus-only lane will be activated along O’Shaughnessy from Portola to the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, about 800 feet south of Portola. Also included is a stretch on upper Woodside Avenue. Another would run Detroit Steps work party volunteers Peter Myers, Ken Hollebeck, Taylor Hughes, Jenny Marabello and Rosaura Valle, at the along Bosworth from Elk to Arlington. corner of Joost Avenue and Detroit Street, prepare to move mulch down to the steps. Photo taken Sept. 20, 2020. The O’Shaughnessy-Bosworth corri- Photo Courtesy of Pam Parker Souza GLEN PARK he Detroit Steps Project is near- Joost avenues in the Sunnyside neigh- Photographs of most of the step ASSOCIATION ing culmination of its “2020 borhood. All 186 steps, both below and designs can be viewed at www.face- QUARTERLY MEETING TDrawing Contest.” above Monterey Boulevard, will be tiled book.com/media/set?vanity=detroitste Launched in November 2018, the with mosaic and other colored tiles. ps&set=a.109860110972697. Thursday Jan. 28, 7 p.m. multi-year, multi- “The contest is to derive imagina- “Submissions of art began Nov. by phase, community-led tive stairway designs that can generate 22 and will culminate on Jan. 3,” Via Zoom Murray beautification project inspiration to an artist retained to move Mullins told the Glen Park News. Schneider will add mosaic tiles the work forward,” said Suna Mullins, After Jan. 3, the steering committee Find the Zoom link at: to the outdoor stairs a member of the DSP steering commit- will vote to select three winners via glenparkassociation.org on Detroit Street between Hearst and tee. There are already 30 entries. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 VIRTUAL BIRD & BECKETT ~ PG. 6 GLEN PARK HISTORY ~ PG. 8 COVID TREE WALK ~ PG. 10 2 Glen Park News | Winter 2020 GLEN PARK S NEWS FROM CITY HALL S EWS ore than 300,000 Americans is finally in the rearview mirror. sites function as pop-up outdoor navi- N have lost their lives during Creating a Place for All: I have gation centers, with portable toilets, The Glen Park News is pub- M the Covid-19 pandemic. As introduced legislation (co-spon- showers, security, food and other ser- lished quarterly by the Glen Covid-19 surges to new records in sored by Supervisor Sandra Lee vices. Since May the City has opened California and throughout the country, Fewer) to require the Department several of these sites as part of our Park Association. Signed San Francisco is experi- of Homelessness and Supportive Covid response, but I believe the City articles are the opinions of by encing a more signifi- Housing to open a network of tem- can and should commit to more than the authors and not neces- Rafael cant and rapid rise in porary safe sleeping sites with enough pilot efforts. sarily those of the Glen Park Mandelman cases and hospitaliza- capacity to ensure that on any given Building a Green Future: The Association. tions than we’ve seen night, any unhoused person who is Board of Supervisors passed my ordi- since the start of the pandemic, with unable to access a shelter bed, hous- nance to require all-electric construc- Editor-in-Chief Rachel Gordon approximately 900 Covid-19 cases ing unit or hotel room can at least be tion in new buildings that file permits, diagnosed each week. offered an overnight stay at such a site. starting next year. With limited excep- Deputy Editor Gail Bensinger To prevent our hospital system from It is unfair and wrong to leave tions, this ordinance would prohibit being overwhelmed and to save lives, unhoused people to find a place to new buildings from including natural Copy Editor Denis Wade the City has been forced to roll back sleep on our sidewalks, and it is unfair gas, a leading source of greenhouse gas our economic reopening and is urging and wrong to ask neighborhoods to emissions and a serious public health Art Director Liz Mangelsdorf San Franciscans to stay home. With provide their sidewalks, medians and and safety hazard. the holiday season upon us, we can plazas as shelters of last resort. If we are Over the past year, I’ve worked Calendar Editor Caroline Mangelsdorf keep our families and our communities to end camping in our neighborhoods, with a broad coalition of community safe by avoiding gatherings, especially our humanity and our laws require that and national environmental organiza- Online Editor Elizabeth Weise indoors, with other households. We we find alternative safe spaces where tions, labor, building and construc- owe it to our neighbors, our small they can be. tion experts, and public health and Advertising Manager Nora Dowley businesses and ourselves to follow com- Safe sleeping sites are a tested and equity advocates to craft a policy that mon-sense public health protocols and proven model that can be cost-effective will make San Francisco a leader in Distribution Manager keep wearing our masks until Covid-19 and scalable. The best safe sleeping the building electrification movement Murray Schneider growing across California, joining more than 30 cities that have enacted policies Reporters to limit natural gas construction. In Murray Schneider a year marked by historic wildfires, Bonnee Waldstein repeated heat waves and a record string of hazardous air quality days, building Columnists working for you a carbon-neutral future has never been Marc Dickow more important. Betsy Eddy Arlington Slow Streets Launch: The Kay Hamilton Estey WE BRING YOU THE GLEN PARK NEWS Slow Streets program expanded in Glen Eric Kammerud Our all-volunteer news teams write, publish (and deliver!) Park, with the addition of Arlington Rafael Mandelman the Glen Park News to homes and businesses throughout Street from Roanoke to Randall. The Kate Patterson the neighborhood. And, at www.glenparkassociation.org program limits vehicular access to local Evelyn Rose we keep up with the latest news, profiles and events. traffic only on certain blocks to provide additional space for pedestrians and Photographers cyclists to exercise or get to essential WE MAKE GLEN PARK (EVEN MORE) BEAUTIFUL Betsy Eddy services with social distancing. It has We’ve secured more than $500,000 in grants Dennis Mullen been popular on segments like Sanchez toward garden improvements for the Glen Park Evelyn Rose Street from 30th to 23rd streets, which Greenway and the Arlington Street path. Murray Schneider was one of the first to be implemented. Bonnee Waldstein The Arlington Slow Street joins WE KEEP OUR OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE Chenery Street between Burnside Our robust neighborhood association means the Glen and Lippard to serve Glen Park. The Park voice is influential at City Hall, in the state capitol Municipal Transportation Agency is 2912 Diamond St. #407 and with city agencies like SF Rec and Park and SFPD. seeking feedback on the implementa- San Francisco, CA 94131 tion of both these Slow Streets from [email protected] area residents and businesses as they [email protected] evaluate the future of the program and NOW, WE NEED YOU. possible additional or modified seg- ments via an online survey at sfmta. Glen Park Association membership is just $10 per year. com/slowstreets. Please support Stay Connected: The best way to We use membership funds to publish this newspaper, reach my office as we continue to work pay for our website, secure matching grant funds for our our remotely is by emailing mandelman- parks and open spaces, and pay for community events [email protected]. S Advertisers throughout the year. Rafael Mandelman represents District 8, they support us! Please join today at www.glenparkassociation.org/membership which includes Glen Park, on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Winter 2020 | Glen Park News 3 S CHECK IT OUT AT THE LIBRARY S GPA Board of here is something for everyone this winter at the San Francisco Directors and Officers T Public Library.
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