[J Church]

yeah, we looked into that. and looked away. it would've been comparable in cost to the big dig (not as complex, but on a greater scale).

tony, what would you rather have, 19th ave as a parking lot or a big, dark monster slicing and dicing the sunset? as for the southern crossing, MTC just looked at that and it was something on the order of $9B minimum. you have to think of all the other things we could do w/ that money to increase mobility and livability.

but we've been round and round on this one before. here's an interesting tidbit about the proposed SF freeway network that folks don't talk about - the existing freeways are 8-10 lanes, but the parts of the rest of the network that were built but since demolished were 6 (the embarcadero) and even 4 (the central). not only would we have had demolition to build them, but we'd have had to suffer through a later round of destruction as they were widened. seriously: imagine 8 lanes elevated through north beach or the panhandle. so long san francisco.