Glen Park Association Quarterly Meeting Date: July 16, 2015 Time: 7:00 PM Place: St. John School Gymnasium Agenda Capt. McFadden from Ingleside Station will review current issues Graffiti and Vandalism: Marianne Bertuccelli from San Francisco Recreation and Park Department The Gum Tree Girls: a history on the freeway revolt, presented by Zoanne Nordstrom and Joan Siewald A Brief […]
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New plan could close the south end of Twin Peaks to the public
[Note for folks in Glen Park: Rec and Park is currently working to create a trail system that would be one nearly continuous greenbelt, makin git possible to walk from Mount Tustro over Twin Peaks and through Glen Park. See Murray Schneider’s article from 2013. Thus, this is a project that’s been much anticipated by Glen Park neighbors.] […]
RIP: Jimmy Ryan
Drummer Jimmy Ryan passed away Wednesday morning. He had suffered a heart attack on Monday, while on a hike with his wife Rory in a wilderness area near Monterey. Rory administered CPR and kept him alive until a medical team was able to hike in to them and carry him out to a hospital, but two days later […]
Diamond/Bosworth update
Hi all, Latest report from SFMTA is that the D/B intersection should be done by end of July. The lane markings you see now are where the lanes will actually be, but probably with nicer, clearer paint. Please see the June 19 blog update regarding the feasibility (or not) of simultaneous protected left-hand turns or protected left-hand turns […]
Highland Bridge update
SFDPW has news about work on the Highland Bridge. Night work starts July 19 and runs to July 26. See more details on their press release: http://sfdpw.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4926 Thanks to Mike S. for posting this on NextDoor.
A small family of gnomes has taken up residence in Glen Park
Story and photos by Murray Schneider Over a month ago construction workers departed Glen Canyon’s Banana Slug Way, which runs parallel to Alms Road and which leads to Silver Tree Day Camp. In their wake, they left lengthy retaining walls and yards of mesh-wire fencing above Islias Creek. As it turns out, though, on this […]
Major collision at Bosworth and Diamond thankfully caused no injuries
A collision on Tuesday between a car and a truck at Bosworth and Diamond in Glen Park caused no injuries, bystanders reported. The car was being driven by a woman on her way to the library. It was going east on Bosworth. The truck was heading west on Bosworth. Exactly what caused the accident is not known. The […]
Overturned car on Diamond near Surrey
More information has come in and it appears the accident on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 24 involved a single driver, an older man. He was taken to the hospital to be checked out but paramedics told neighbors on the scene that his injuries were minor. Unclear how exactly the car ended up on its side, though it’s […]
Glen Park’s Bloomsday Warriors (a meditation)
Story and photos by Stephen Labovsky GLEN PARK VILLAGE, June 16. It’s 6:00pm, and Glen Park Station is jammed packed with fans awaiting the start of Game Six of the NBA Championship. Meanwhile, a block away, at Bird & Beckett, Bloomsday, the annual, marathon reading of James Joyce’s masterpiece, “Ulysses” is already in progress. Travelling between […]
Diamond/Bosworth update
In the May 28 blog summary of the GPA’s transportation committee’s first meeting with SFMTA, traffic engineer Damon Curtis had promised to look into two things: –creating simultaneous protected lefts northbound and southbound on Diamond –switching the new protected northbound left on Diamond to be southbound in the evening to accommodate rush hour traffic Neither […]