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Originally Posted by nequidnimis
If I lived there, I would want to live way above it. But it would still leave unresolved the question of how to cross the street, and getting somewhere else for a stroll.
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The designated strolling place will be the park a block or so east on Folsom and since they've started building One Rincon I've walked around that area plenty without noticing any trouble crossing any of the streets--ever. They have this marvelous thing called a "traffic light". I think "trouble crossing the streets" as a reason not to live there is a fantasy, assuming the folks who live there would ever want to. My guess is most of them will drive--and hire dog walkers for the pooch--except maybe those who work in the Financial District and "stroll" to work. Noise might be an issue, but I think you can be quite sure all these buildings will have double or triple pane glass. And the biggest noise issue, of course, would be on the south side of One Rincon where you are just a few feet for 80/101.
But the real drawback to walkers of a certain age or disability is the simple fact of the hill. That last block up Fremont from Folsom gets me puffing.
But given the speed with which One Rincon sales progressed, nobody seems too worried about any of this.
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