Greetings to all Gardeners and Willing Weed Pullers; Please join us and garden in the Sunnyside Conservatory between 9:00 AM and noon on Saturday, July 23rd. If you can’t spend the entire time in the garden, please note…we are grateful for any time you can spare to help out. The grass continues to grow. Your […]
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GPA July Meeting
Glen Park Association Quarterly Meeting July 14, 2016 – 7:00 pm St. John School (Please enter from Chenery Street) Agenda GPA updates 2016 GPA Grant Program Award to the San Francisco Mime Troupe Neighborhood updates District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener CleanPowerSF San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) representatives will discuss and answer questions about CleanPowerSF, […]
SFMTA to Pilot GP Route for Shuttles
Corporate shuttle buses will test the Glen Park BART station as a pick up and drop off location starting July 11, according to a memo circulated to Genentech employees in late June. Buses longer than 35 feet quit using the street in February of this year when the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency rolled out […]
BART Service Disruption
Forwarded from BART: BART will have no trains running between Daly City BART Station and Glen Park BART Station on multiple weekends between the end of July and October. BART must perform critical track safety repairs between those stations as well as station improvements at Balboa Park Station. There will be some accommodation for passengers […]
Transportation Revenue Measure Discussion
Forwarded from SFCTA: You’re Invited to a Telephone Town Hall for a Proposed Transportation Revenue Measure Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Join a telephone town hall to learn about a proposed Transportation Revenue Measure and Expenditure Plan for placement on San Francisco’s November 2016 ballot. Funding would go toward: Transit Service […]
Twin Peaks Redesign Project
Forwarded from: Melinda Stockmann, Project Manager, Trails Improvement Program. Her contact info is below if you would like to reply to her. Dear Twin Peaks Neighbors and Friends, Thank you for your continued interest in the Twin Peaks Figure 8 Redesign Project. This project, a joint effort of the SFMTA and Rec and Park Departments, […]
Greenway Cleanup Next Weekend!
Saturday, June 18 from 10 AM – 2 PM On the Greenway between Brompton and Lippard, along Bosworth Join us on Saturday, June 18 at 10 AM to clean and green the stretch of the Glen Park Greenway between Brompton and Lippard streets. We’ll celebrate and get to know each other over a late-lunch community […]
No Development on the BART Lot
At the last GPA meeting, a BART rep said there are no plans for development on the lot in the near the future. As the fabulous Bonnee Waldstein wrote in her thorough notes: Tim Chan, the station planner for the Daly City to Powell Street stations, addressed the local situation at the Glen Park station. […]
Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project wins award
From our friends at the History Project: GPNHP TO RECEIVE AWARD FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY ASSOCIATION! We are very proud to announce that the GPNHP is to be the recipient of the Walter G. Jebe, Sr. Neighborhood Award from the San Francisco History Association, “… presented each year to a person or organization for focusing on local neighborhood […]
Walter Haas connector trail is now open
Stories and photos by Bonnee Waldstein The trail connecting Billy Goat Hill with Walter Haas Playground opened as planned, sometime this week – and just in time for the Memorial Day weekend. The trail was a project of San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks. (See Glen Park News, Summer 2015, p. 14 for […]