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Comparison photos of Sixth Avenue between Clement and Geary 76 years apart.
Comparison photos of Sixth Avenue between Clement and Geary 76 years apart.
If you didn’t know any better, walking up Geary from 17th toward 18th Avenue, under the shade of large, bustling sidewalk trees, you’d think you were somewhere like downtown Sacramento or Chico. Then you see “The Nags Head,” a sign with a beautiful horse (nag), and the unique Dutch-Door entrance, and suddenly, you’re in a divey pub in England or Scotland.
Comparison photos of Eighth Avenue Near Geary Boulevard 75 years apart.
Pending approval by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 98 residential units of housing for low-income senior citizens will be built at Sixth Avenue and Geary Boulevard, where a former funeral home now sits.
A Whole Foods store’s move into the City Center at Masonic Avenue and Geary Boulevard is now on hold after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors reversed a decision by the SF Planning Department to exempt the project from an environmental review.
The SFMTA’s board of directors voted unanimously to approve the Geary-BRT Phase 1 plan as recommended by staff. The plan allows vehicles with 10 or more passengers to use Muni transit lanes and eliminates the #38-Geary Rapid stops in both directions at Geary and Spruce.
The GBRT would strip Geary Boulevard of its traffic islands and trees and replace them with long stretches of bus-only lanes, painted red, along much of the major transit artery for the Richmond. An average of 52,000 passengers use the #38-Geary bus line daily.
Opponents of the Geary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project planned for Geary Boulevard released in May the opening arguments in a lawsuit filed against two San Francisco transportation agencies to derail the BRT.