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Central Freeway

The final compromise took a two-way freeway down to ground level at Market Street, where Octavia Boulevard - a widened Octavia Street on the former freeway right-of-way — would continue to Fell Street.

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The remainder of the freeway is signed as exit 434B from US 101, and comes to the surface at Market Street and Octavia Boulevard, the latter continuing north to Oak and Fell Streets, a one-way pair west to Golden Gate Park.

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The freeway once extended north to Turk Street, and was once proposed to form part of a complete loop around downtown (along with the Embarcadero Freeway), but was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and has been replaced with the surface-level Octavia Boulevard north of Market Street.

First United Lutheran Church

On May 25, 1890, a new church building was dedicated on Geary Boulevard between Octavia Street and Gough Street (now the site of St. Mary's Cathedral).

Hayes Valley, San Francisco

In 2005, a section of the freeway was rebuilt to end at Market Street, with the new, tree-lined Octavia Boulevard running north through the Hayes Valley along the previous path of Octavia Street, to Fell Street.

Octavia Boulevard

There is an octagon-shaped building (named The Octagon House at 2645 Gough Street, on the northwest corner of Gough and Green streets.

Robin Levitt

He was also the co-chairman of the campaigns in 1997, 1998 and 1999 to replace the Central Freeway with Octavia Boulevard in San Francisco, California.

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