When Is That WalkStop Going In At Haight & Fillmore?

When Is That WalkStop Going In At Haight & Fillmore?

LoHaMNA meeting to collect WalkStop stories. Photo: James Munden

Mike Gaworecki
Published on July 01, 2015

Plans for the WalkStop to be installed at the intersection of Haight and Fillmore are coming along, and there's now a timeline for its completion … sort of.

According to Amy Chan, a board member for the Lower Haight Merchants and Neighbors Association, construction of the traffic-calming sidewalk bulb-outs on Fillmore probably won’t start until either the end of the year or early 2016. It all depends on the schedule decided upon by the contractor hired by the city to do the work.

In the meantime, sewer work along both Haight and Hayes has already begun. That construction is slated to run through July 2016, and the WalkStop will be installed as part of the project.

Chan told Hoodline that the WalkStop's “decorative elements” — such as the wayfarer pole, the plaques that will be set into the sidewalks and other features you can read about in Hoodline’s previous coverage — will be submitted to the contractor, who will then provide an estimate for the work. After that's approved, the contractor will add it to the overall schedule and set an exact timeline.

In terms of the 30 bronze plaques set to be installed, here's an artist's rendering of what Fillmore Street's sidewalk might look like once they’re in place:

To tell the Lower Haight’s story via those plaques, LoHaMNA wants feedback from local residents. The group has already held two community meetings to collect stories from Lower Haighters to be featured in the sidewalk plaques, and you can see all the stories they’ve collected so far on this Google Survey, which has elicited some fascinating moments in Lower Haight history.

Chan says that LoHaMNA has submitted the current batch of stories to the project manager at the Department of Public Works who's working on the sidewalk expansion, and the content is now being incorporated into the city’s designs for the project. But LoHaMNA will still be collecting more stories during the design phase, so if you’ve got a story to share, submit it now.