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Originally Posted by 181Fremont
It appears Van Ness BRT construction (actual BRT, not utilities) is commencing around VN and Turk. Wasn’t able to get any photos. Most of the roadwork has been moved to the center lanes.
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Yes, they have moved the traffic to side lanes and dug up the center lanes from Eddy to McAllister. Not much to photograph--just a strip of dirt in the center of the street with a lone remaining tree (likely to die as they have killed some of the sidewalk trees by chopping off most of the root system).
Meanwhile, the Chronicle tells us
"Muni expects to lose the majority of its bus lines permanently as financial devastation mounts"
In other words, Muni is saying as it pours millions into BRT and finishing the Central Subway that, hey, they are going to eliminate all the bus routes and leave us with a useless residual transit system anyway (now that they've converted all the traffic lanes to transit-only and bike lanes with resulting gridlock for cars).
Fortunately, I consider all this political gamesmanship, seeking budget priority for what will clearly be a very difficult budgetary mess when COVID is made history by a vaccine (which I'm pretty sure will come by this time next year).
But still, it's funny in a ludicrous way how they are moving along pouring money into the big ticket projects while telling us they won't have the money to keep the basic system running.