While we’re on the subject of infrastructure — an innately sexy topic, BTW — our friends at the City’s Department of Public Works want you to know that they are hard at work installing a new sewer main on Bocana:
A new sewer main is replacing an aging line on Bocana Street, from Cortland to Wool, in Bernal Heights. Bocana is closed to through traffic during construction hours, though the street is open to local motorists at all times. Once the sewer replacement is completed, crews will repave the road with fresh asphalt within the next few weeks. This is one of several streets to be renovated under the Various Locations Pavement and Sewer Renovation #13.
Hooray for new sewer lines! Hooray for “the Various Locations Pavement and Sewer Renovation #13” (whatever that is)!
Photo: Courtesy of Jean Pedigo
Bernalwood 
Reading your post as the heavy equipment pounds our street, and we are hermetically sealed in our home and our windows are further layered in red pipe dust and dirt. All starts at 7am, when one works from home this is not yet happiness, but we do share your enthusiasm for the end goal. We are all hoping that they will hose down our windows and wash our cars when finished….hmmm….maybe not. The kid that rockets down Bocana on his skateboard I KNOW is counting the days for the repaving job..yeah!
Yes, an inconvenience and nuisance, to be sure. I don’t mean to diminish that. Here on the north side, the CChavez rebuilding plan will soon transform it into a dusty and congested vision of hell. But the unpleasantness is ephemeral, and there can be no progress without some pain along the way. This too shall pass.
That photo is of Balceta and Woodside, which is, you know, not in Bernal Heights and nowhere near Cortland. It’s west-ish of Twin Peaks. I know, because I’ve been walking past that goddamned road construction every day for a couple weeks now – which is about rebuilding the sidewalk corners and repaving the road.
Wrong photo?
Doh! I had a funny feeling about that when I saw the photo. Thanks.
It’s definitely the right picture. Those are my two trees at 223 Bocana.
My dog clients on Bocana have suffered from the noise, too. And I am parking blocks away and collecting my mutt friends for their daily outing. For the most part, the folks working out there are helpful in letting me pass, cooperative and friendly. It’s part of living in the City and I make the best out of it!
kortney
dynamutts
Again? I lived on Bocana for over 17 years. Wasn’t it about 5 years ago, that Bocana was torn up for months while they were putting in new sewer lines? Or maybe it was new water mains. Whatever it was, seems like they completely tear up Bocana every few years. I’m glad I’m missing this go-round.
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