Episode 3 of Freeway History - San Francisco's Unbuilt Freeway System

[@concretebob7680]

It would have been nice to see a tunneled version of the Central Freeway linking US 101 in the Hayes Valley area to the Presidio area, along with a similar tunnel linking the Southern Freeway at 19th Avenue to Park Presideo Drive near the Golden Gate Bridge. If BART can go underground, so can freeways.

[@maroon9273]

Or a Embarcadero tunnel from I-280 to US-101 near the Golden gate bridge.

[@forsomereasonistillcannotfly]

The tunnels that BART uses are far narrower than freeway tunnels

[@ababababaababbba]

That would have cost about infinite money

[@ababababaababbba]

subways are tunneled because 1 lane wide of subway has the same capacity as 19 lanes of freeway so the capacity numbers make no sense for the price once you do something expensive like a tunnel

[@artytoons]

Ironically one of the San Francisco Freeway Revolt leaders, Sue Bierman, who opposed the Golden Gate Park Panhandle freeway project and who became a San Francisco city supervisor in the 1980s-1990s had died in a car accident in 2006, crashing her car into a dumpster in her neighborhood street. Not known if she had suffered a medical episode that caused her to crash.

[@pyrotechnick420]

Fun fact back in the 50s before the freeway revolts, they were planning on building three more bridges to connect SF to Marin and the East Bay, the Tiburon Bridge was only one of those. They wanted to build a bridge from the Sunset/Seacliff to the Marin Headlands and name it the Diablo Bridge. This would have coincided with the plan to build a community on top of the hills in Sausalito called Marincello, but opposition to the housing blocked it from happening. This made building the bridge pointless

[@Fognrailz]

Freeways divided neighborhoods, glad some of them are gone or were never built.

[@pyrotechnick420]

Now that the cost of living is so high, none of that matters, ironically, rich ass residents these days probably would prefer to limit outside access to their neighborhoods lol

[@dickdeeb6018]

Wee cant see the fairee building!

[@Alejandro-vn2si]

Now we should have BART lines that serve those areas that the freeway intended to serve.

[@arthurkorff]

Better? Worse? I dont know. I like learning why and what could've been. Nice channel friend.

[@djjuanjr.zumbadanceparty4835]

We can Extend The I-80 Panhandle Freeway to Ocean Beach San Francisco is Lincoln Way and Fulton Freeway Alternative Freeway to Ocean Beach Reroute is Geary Blvd Freeway and Expressway

[@pyrotechnick420]

I still have dreams of riding on the Embarcadero Freeway as a kid, but I cannot seem to remember the Central Freeway at all

[@AlexCab_49]

Mandala effect

[@passatboi]

Dumbarton Bridge is 84, not 87. The 87 fwy is in San Jose.

[@genghisconn7770]

Best thing the SF nimbys ever did.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Yet for some reason, they like their cars.

[@HSMiyamoto]

Golden Gate Park would be very compromised today with two freeways and a big freeway interchange in it.

[@ApartmentKing66]

But Highway 1 through it is OK? Hypocrite.

[@HSMiyamoto]

@@ApartmentKing66 Are you talking about The Great Highway? Because that road is about 100 years old.

[@Tivis7]

Freeways are always so damn expensive and inefficient to build, use, and maintain (they're also really damn loud and smell). It's one of the main reasons the US is having so many infrastructure problems right now. I've had to live with driving around the Bay my entire life, and I have to say it's absolutely the worst mode of transit ever invented. Everyone turns into an idiot the moment they step into a car. I really would prefer if we could focus all our resources on mass transit instead. Freeways in MOST cases are just a waste of material imo...

[@r3mdh]

My God - that awful music.

[@michwashington]

Michael Harlan music is terrible. But nice 👍🏼 video

[@michwashington]

I STRONGLY WISH this freeway 🛣 was built and still want an adequate freeway in San Francisco. Maybe one day! 🙄idiots for tiring it down!

[@maroon9273]

It will have to be one underground freeway connecting I-280 to US-101 to the Golden gate bridge.

[@forsomereasonistillcannotfly]

Freeways divide and destroy communities, are expensive, loud, and ruin the neighborhoods which it goes through. Above all, freeways might actually INCREASE congestion, because of induced demand, making the entire thing essentially pointless.

[@BlitzercupGaming]

@@forsomereasonistillcannotfly They should have at least made the 101 central freeway to the golden gate bridge.

[@forsomereasonistillcannotfly]

@@BlitzercupGaming I disagree with this. In 1992, the Central Freeway was torn down north of Market, and the surrounding area is quite a bit better now. In a place like San Francisco, the car shouldn't be the main form of transportation.

[@Alejandro-vn2si]

We should have BART serve those areas that those freeways wanted to serve. If there is still a need for freeways, we should build them underground with little to no exists in order to connect the golden gate with the rest of freeways. But, I still think SF did great on not building massive freeways!