California IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Demolition of Freeway Urged
An architects’ organization has recommended tearing down the earthquake-damaged Embarcadero Freeway in downtown San Francisco and replacing it with a waterfront boulevard. “We believe a surface roadway emerges as the better alternative,” said Clark Manus, chairman of the urban design committee of San Francisco’s chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The chapter released a report that concluded that dismantling the 1.5-mile elevated freeway would be safer and more compatible with other improvements in the area than rebuilding it. Before the Oct. 17 earthquake closed the freeway, it carried 60,000 cars a day.
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