Radical idea and a Strong Community partnership. In the recovery after the 89 earthquake and the 1990 and 1991 recession, San Francisco was facing tough times and at that time the city had a bold vision to demolish the embarcadero freeway and replace it with a surface boulevard but that wasnt good enough because we needed to serve the heart of china town so mayor willy brown and rose pack struck a brilliant compromise to agree to demolish the embarcadero freeway but build a subway into the heart of china town, connecting chinese San Francisco in the cultural heart of chinese San Francisco. But to do more than that, to revitalize the southeastern part of San Francisco, including the bay view, to connect African American and Filipino American and other populations to new emerging job centers in mission bay and all the jobs in union square and again here to china town. So, with support from Speaker Pelosi and a billion dollars of federal funding, we are almost there. Were also really grat
To be a low see and feinstein and meeting with the congressional committee. Norman went on that treat or reverend fong. Sorry. And even 20 years ago, speaker a low sew and feinstein moved this project. China town needs this lifeline. But beyond the tremendous economic benefits of central subway will have, i want to share one impact that people outside of our community see. Several years back when tan and i were doing outreach on this street, there was one merchant who pointed out something i will never forget. I said central subway was more than action he economic benefit and having the world china town printed in a citywide map that everyone would see signaled something bigger and permanent for this community and the permanent of china town is not something we can take for granted. China town survived numerous attempts the relocation. First after the great quake 60 and the threat posed by the pandemic. The central subway means as mentioned, merchant implied and china town has been and
Good afternoon, thank you everyone for coming. My name is jeffrey come lin and im San Franciscos director of transportation. And im so grateful to have the secretary, the speaker and the mayor here to celebrate our progress on the central subway. We are joined by local community and im grateful to all of you in the local community who who have put up with years of construction and disruption here in the heart of china town but we promise it is going to be worth it. As we sit here i want to action knot the long history it has taken to get here including remembering the earthquake and the demolition of the embarcadero freeway and this project started both as a radical idea and a Strong Community partnership. In the recovery after the 89 earthquake and the 1990 and 1991 recession, San Francisco was facing tough times and at that time the city had a bold vision to demolish the embarcadero freeway and replace it with a surface boulevard but that wasnt good enough because we needed to serve
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