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How Public Input is Helping Shape a Better Market Street

How Public Input is Helping Shape a Better Market Street By Mariana Maguire In response to budget constraints and challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Better Market Street project team released updated design proposals for Market Street between 5th and 8th streets in September 2020. We then hosted multiple stakeholder and public meetings, posted a public survey and held a month-long virtual open house in order get feedback on the proposals. We received and reviewed hundreds of public comments and found four recurring areas of concern: curb lane sharing, speed tables, curbs between vehicle lanes and car-free Market Street enforcement. Based on these issues, we are proposing the following additional modifications: Lowering the speed limit to 20 miles per hour between Franklin and Steuart streets Adding speed tables next to boarding islands to slow vehicle traffic and discourage speeding where transit riders and pedestrians are more vulnerable Removing previo

Today in History: The Making of the Geary Expressway

Today in History: The Making of the Geary Expressway By Sophia Scherr Crowds surround streetcars during their inaugural day of service, December 28, 1912  (SFMTA Photo Archives) The SFMTA recently celebrated Muni’s 108th Anniversary on December 28, the date when streetcar service was inaugurated along Geary Street between downtown and 33rd Avenue on the A and B lines in 1912. This vital corridor is now experiencing its latest transformation. But first, some history: Upon opening, for the cost of a nickel, the Geary streetcars went all the way to the Ocean Beach carousel, candy stands and other rides and amusements that would later be known as “Playland at the Beach.” Residences and shops began to spring up amid the sand dunes in the Outer Richmond, as transit connected downtown to the Richmond neighborhoods, Golden Gate Park and Ocean Beach. The public transit network expanded in the years following this inaugural service through innovative projects like the completion of the Twi

Show HN: CSS-powered hover-animations library https://ift.tt/3hWDrKk

Show HN: CSS-powered hover-animations library Hello, I've created a CSS-library called sunset.css. If offers a collection of (hopefully) useful CSS-powered hover-animations and also some animations that react to clicks instead. It's my first open-source project so I try to make everything right: * I created a npm-project so it is available on npmjs and CDNs * I created a public github-repository with a wiki for documentation * I created a landing page to show off the animations I'd love to here some feedback about all of this! :) Here are the links: https://ift.tt/3pToRpB https://sunsetcss.com -------------- I have hidden the original post, because it didn't follow the rule to add "Show HN". January 7, 2021 at 03:32AM

Why Does Construction Take So Long?

Why Does Construction Take So Long? By Amy Fowler Tired of construction in San Francisco? You are not alone. With so many city projects and private developments raising dust across the city, our iconic skyline can more closely resemble a giant Erector set than a world-class city. Without these necessary upgrades, however, roads would crumble, traffic signals would be stymied by aging technology and century-old sewer and water pipes would be vulnerable to earthquakes and climate change.   New pedestrian refuge island under construction at Geary Boulevard and Steiner Street as part of the Geary Rapid Project. But why does construction take so darn long? There are many factors that can turn a seemingly simple project into an extraordinarily  complex undertaking. Chief among them is that many SFMTA projects are done in the public right of way. Unlike private developments that are usually self-contained, our projects happen in areas where people need to walk, drive, bike and take tran

22 Fillmore Moves to Mission Bay, Makes Way for the 55 Dogpatch

22 Fillmore Moves to Mission Bay, Makes Way for the 55 Dogpatch By Erin McMillan Starting Saturday, January 23, the eastern section of the 22 Fillmore will shift its route to begin serving Mission Bay . Utilizing the new transit and street amenities along 16th Street, the 22 Fillmore will travel east from the Mission to 3rd Street to serve medical facilities and the growing residential and commercial areas in the Mission Bay neighborhood. In addition to increasing service to the Mission Bay neighborhood, this move will provide an improved east-west connector from the Mission neighborhood to Mission Bay, increasing transit access to jobs and healthcare services. This 5+ mile bus route serves nearly 18,000 daily customers from the Marina through the Mission and soon to Mission Bay, improving Muni service to all the neighborhoods in between. Start of the 55 Dogpatch Moving the eastern segment of the 22 Fillmore to Mission Bay provided an opportunity to work with the communities of Po

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Show HN: Autocomplete Python Code with Transformers https://ift.tt/3887wTQ

Show HN: Autocomplete Python Code with Transformers This is a small project we created to train a character level autoregressive transformer (or LSTM) model to predict Python source code. We trained it on GitHub repositories found on awesome pytorch list. Github repo: https://ift.tt/3pNn9pS You can try training on Google Colab: https://ift.tt/3887Fqm Here are some sample evaluations/visualizations of the trained model: https://ift.tt/38d7Y38 Working on a simple VSCode extension to test this out. Will open source it soon on the same repository. January 4, 2021 at 04:31PM