These unedited, often improvised pieces, free from fine-tuning, plunged him into uncharted waters. Here, that manifests itself more in terms of texture. Some inspirations are as physical and geographic as they are musical and artistic. I like his manner and there's something about him I relate to. When I read that line, I knew it would be the title of this record.
Accordingly, the album probes an inner turmoil, the lyrics to 'Theme from Muddy Time' capturing a sense of despair and pained hollowness as they ring out over engulfing electronics. The Doyle Drive project is now scheduled to begin this summer, 16 months earlier than originally planned, and will involve three to four years of heavy construction to improve seismic stability and safety.
During this period, it will not be possible for the Center, which is directly adjacent to Doyle Drive, to operate safely or effectively with the disruptions of major construction, including truck traffic, dust, noise, and vibration. This site allows the Center to continue using the natural and cultural resources of the national park, especially the outdoor areas of Crissy Field, in its community-based environmental programs that serve youth, schools, and community organizations.
The classrooms can be removed and re-used when the Crissy Field Center moves back to its current home. A variety of extravagant designs included one that sent Doyle Drive out into the bay, beside the Marina.
However, San Franciscans revolted against plans for a city dissected by freeways and the Doyle replacement was shelved. It has not been solved in 50 years, but we're trying to solve it now," says Rentschler. Doyle Drive is a disaster waiting to happen. The one-and-a-half-mile road has no shoulders and no median. It's years old and needs seismic upgrading. It gets a structural safety rating of 2 out of The bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis last year was a Inside its roadway, the rebar rusts.
It has been patched and reinforced, and patched again. In places, its lanes are barely wider than one of the buses that travel it each day. Oncoming traffic in the fast lanes is separated by a row of plastic pylons.
Doyle Drive is the one-and-a-half mile southern approach road for the Golden Gate Bridge, from the tollbooths to the Palace of Fine Arts. During an average weekday it carries over , travelers. But San Franciscans have complained about its deficiencies for decades. In , when a Porsche going more than mph plowed across the pylons, killing ten, the newspapers screamed "blood alley. Without a southern approach, the Golden Gate Bridge would have to be closed. The possibility of structural failure was real: in , USA Today reported that the elevated Doyle Drive was the fifth most dangerous bridge in America.
Caltrans proposed an eight-lane freeway. San Franciscans refused. The Loma Prieta earthquake of heightened concerns, because Doyle Drive's east end is built on the same bay fill that liquefied beneath buildings in the adjacent Marina District. Two years later the city formed a task force of citizens and agencies to seek a consensus design. The camps formed quickly. The traffic engineers and The California Highway Patrol wanted a fast and safe freeway.
Environmentalists and the National Park Service, which was due to inherit the Presidio from the Army, wanted no impacts to the land and its historical buildings and spaces. Marina Boulevard residents wanted the Marina exit closed, sending all traffic to Lombard Street. Homeowners on Richardson Avenue, the arterial joining Lombard to Doyle Drive, wanted to send all traffic to the Marina exit.
Collectively, neighbors hoped that traffic from the bridge would enter the Presidio, find its way to the Main Post, and disappear down a rabbit hole. Each weekly meeting brought more disagreements. The impasse continued for nearly a year.
Some task force members hammered the same speech every week. The threat that kept them meeting was that if they couldn't agree on a design, Caltrans would build an eight-lane freeway. One day a landscape architect, a spectator at several sessions, asked to speak. Michael Painter years before had transformed the Great Highway along the city's ocean edge from a speedway regularly closed by sandstorms to a seaside arterial lined with recreational trails.
He pinned a foot-long, hand-drawn plan to the wall.
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