The US$1 billion Presidio Parkway will replace the existing Doyle Drive, which is structurally and seismically vulnerable. The new 2.5km route forms a southern access to the Golden Gate Bridge and runs through the Presidio, a 600ha park at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula. Two short stretches will be in tunnel and twin high-level viaducts approximately 400m long will carry traffic at the western end of the parkway.
A Hochtief-led consortium will build the parkway under a public-private partnership contract. Preparatory contracts have already begun, including a US$48.4 million contract being carried out by CC Myers to build an interchange, a bridge and the southbound high-level viaduct.
One of the uses of the final US$46 million tranche of funding will be to replace a bridge rated as California's worst for structural sufficiency.
Business and finance
29 Dec 10
Funding released for final phase of Presidio Parkway
US transportation secretary Ray LaHood has announced that work on the final segment of the Presidio Parkway project in San Francisco can move ahead thanks to the award of U$46 million in funding from a programme designed to spur economic recovery.
