A handful of cities along El Camino are pressing ahead with efforts to revamp the state highway, but most projects are still largely in the planning stages.While the cooperative effort known as the Grand Boulevard Initiative is several years old, it’s a vast undertaking bringing multiple agencies and governing bodies to the table. There is still more process than product, said Mike Garvey, the lead consultant to SamTrans in the effort.
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Traffic increased on other Bay Area bridges this holiday weekend, as drivers detoured around the closed eastbound span of the Bay Bridge, but transportation officials declared the shutdown a success overall."Things are going extremely well," Caltrans project engineer Ken Terpstra said. "We’re making tremendous progress."
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Traffic increased on other Bay Area bridges this holiday weekend, as drivers detoured around the closed eastbound span of the Bay Bridge, but transportation officials declared the shutdown a success overall."Things are going extremely well," Caltrans project engineer Ken Terpstra said. "We’re making tremendous progress."
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Negotiations between 13 of The City’s hotels and the union representing 4,300 of their employees are scheduled to continue today as the two sides attempt to hammer out a labor agreement.The hotel workers — including housekeepers, kitchen workers, food servers and bell staff — last month voted to authorize a strike if a contract agreement is not reached.
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Caltrans expects project to go smoothly, span to reopen by TuesdayAs motorists brace for long detours and revelers turn to BART’s all-night service, Caltrans is hoping all will go smoothly as it undertakes a massive demolition project that has closed the eastbound span of the Bay Bridge over the long weekend."It’s going to be a challenge to get everything done, but I don't think it’ll be a problem for us to finish by Tuesday," California Department of Transportation spokesman Bart Ney said.
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Language-immersion program could be a magnet for Potrero Hill school The first Mandarin-language immersion program in San Francisco’s public schools was expected to be a powerful magnet that would draw families from all over The City to Starr King Elementary School, located on the southeast side of Potrero Hill.The program began with its first students last week, indeed from different corners of San Francisco. However, only three-fourths of the program’s 40 seats were filled.
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Advocating laws that bring more government into homes, backyards, clubs or cars has never made much sense to me, even though I have to admit the Legislature’s proposal to limit cell phone use in cars seems like a pretty good call.Now if the state could just extend the cell phone crackdown to bars, restaurants, stores and other shared public spaces, we might really be on to something.
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San Francisco recorded its 65th homicide of the year when a man was gunned down early Friday morning between the Portola district and Bernal Heights.Police received a call at 12:30 a.m. reporting shots fired and a person down on the ground, Sgt. Steve Mannina of the San Francisco Police Department said Friday. When officers arrived on the scene, they administered CPR to the victim, Mannina said, but when paramedics arrived, they pronounced Eddie Davis, 22, of Pinole, dead.
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Advocating laws that bring more government into homes, backyards, clubs or cars has never made much sense to me, even though I have to admit the Legislature’s proposal to limit cell phone use in cars seems like a pretty good call.Now if the state could just extend the cell phone crackdown to bars, restaurants, stores and other shared public spaces, we might really be on to something.
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Wolf willing to return to prison in federal grand jury caseOn the day of his release from federal prison Friday, freelance journalist Josh Wolf reaffirmed his commitment to not turn over videotape to a federal grand jury even if it means returning to custody.Wolf, 24, videotaped a San Francisco protest last year in which anarchists were suspected of trying to light a police patrol car on fire. During the protest a San Francisco officer suffered a skull fracture.
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