In the Works - Community Newsletter In the Works September 2017 | Page 43

Public Works crews join with neighbors to fête the new median.
Work on the Dorchester Way
median improvement project
culminated with a celebratory
block party that drew neighbors,
Public Works crews and District 7
Supervisor Norman Yee.
Rejoicing over a roadway median
is not an everyday occurrence. But
neighbors, led by Carol Dimmick,
Jonathan Goldberg from Public Works and neighborhood leader Carol Dimmick.
wanted to fête the successful
completion of the complex
infrastructure project. The party was
held Sept. 9. The one-block median
stretches along Dorchester Way
between Portola and Ulloa streets
in the West Portal neighborhood.
Public Works’ structural engineers,
maintenance planners, carpenters,
plumbers, sheet metal workers,
landscapers, general laborers and
cement masons all helped get
the job done. Among the work:
demolishing and removing old
curbs and gutters and building
new ones, reinforcing the roadway
with pilings, patching asphalt and
sprucing up the median with fresh
landscaping.
September 2017 - San Francisco Public Works Newsletter