The most amazing part, IMO, is that voters rejected a proposal to tear it down in 1987.
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Its disposal required the intervention of Loma Prieta, after which inertia favored the other side of the debate.
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@rpmcb thanks to SF ballot measures, they get to :(Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc See also the Cyprus Viaduct, and I-980 in Oakland. The Bay Area loves inexplicably bad freeways.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc so much better todayThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc I remember seeing photos of it destroyed after the 1989 earthquake. Crazy!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc but SF really has no major highway to get across the city, and I do think it does impact certain types of businesses farther northThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc I don’t know but i’d be willing to wager that’s part of the reason south San Francisco is so much more industrialThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc appears in the Philip K Dick alt-history novel "The Main in the High Castle" as part of plot climax... http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15883/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-ending-of-man-in-the-high-castle …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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