Ambitious engineering project will raise San Francisco Ferry Building seven feet
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- Опубліковано 20 лис 2023
- Juliette Goodrich reports on the plan by the Port of San Francisco and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to raise the Ferry Building to protect it from rising sea levels.
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3:24 God bless you all for planning to protect our precious ferry building and then of course being successful!!
How to raise the Ferry Building: "You take one corner, I'll take the other corner...."
A undertaking that is reminiscent of this one was when they raised the central station building in Amsterdam. They replaced the foundation and let the entire thing float while still keeping it operational to install the new metro station under it. Beautiful building, awesome job. Give it a google.
They should add a Vancouver style waterfront sea wall as well. Like coal harbor area.
At least we know now what plans are going that we who will not see it done that for us, we don't have even another decade to live. Retired!
wtf did you say?
I would imagine there will need to be new stairways constructed from the current sidewalk to reach the front entrances, but other than that it seems the facade will remain unchanged. Combined with the already funded Embarcadero Seawall, I imagine other piers will be similarly raised over the coming decades as well.
What about the rest of the Bay Areas bayside shorelines? A more radical approach is going to be necessary to ensure the whole Bay Area is protected.
They erected a flood control barrier at the mouth of the Thames river in ‘82. Something similar is going to need to be erected at the golden gate too.
The rest of the bay… that’s a different conversation and those communities to deal with. This report is about the SF Ferry Terminal, nothing else and nobody else.
This is how we learn to do it
EXCELLENT ❤
Just don't hire the same contractor that built Salespoint Tower! haha
There is no "Salespoint Tower". There is the Salesforce Tower. But that is not the tower that is leaning.
Nice to see the Fairies 🧚♂️ in San Francisco getting their home renovated ❤
The water on the Embarcadero is rising because the street, and the Ferry Building were not built on engineered landfill.
Like the Marina District, which was rendered uninhabitable for 9 months after the 1989 earthquake, this part of San Francisco is built on top of landfill that was a dump.
The organic material in the dump has been rotting and shrinking for over 100 years.
Like the nearby Millennium Tower it is all sinking.
Question: If the SF Bay is rising, how come we don't need to raise the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge? It's made of steel. The bay is salt water. The steel will rust!
Answer: The foundation of the Bridge is built on rock.
Funny how the water isn't rising 4 miles away over by the bridge.
Factual and correct. As I'm sure you know, sidewalks are sinking throughout the Bayfront area.
Such convoluted contortions just to avoid a widely accepted fact. Some of your compatriots go the "It's not caused by humans" route, which takes a little bit longer to refute. Arguing that the seas are not rising at all is really quite silly and easily disproven. There are numerous records of this from around the world.
@@Brendissimo1 They are rising between 1.2 and 2.8 millimeters per year, that's about 8 inches every hundred years.
How much sq footage
The Ferry Building is about 65,860 square feet. That does not include the ferry terminal, pier area, and the Ag Building.
Huge.
Yuge.
WHY NOT BUILD THE MEGA TITANIC HOTEL WITH CASINO VEGAS
It's all about facade; architectural and metaphorical.
Why raze it when you could put a higher foundation under it??!?
It's not being razed. It's being raised.
The ferry cost too damn much, does not run often enough or late enough in the evening.
The money should go to those issues.
The Port of San Francisco does not manage the ferries. They are managed by separate organizations: San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority, Treasure Island Development Authority, and Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.
Why not just perminatley remove the water underneath the building. Couldn’t they then add a better foundation?
Imagine spending a trilliion dollas to save an old clock.
Don't waste the money move the clock .
Poor reporting is why I rarely tune into KPIX. They go for big graphic pictures but idiotic explanations. Everyone's wondering how this helps the surrounding area which you can't raise? Who cares about this building if the entire coastline of SF goes under water! And if you raise a building by 7ft, it means you have to have stairs to access it unlike now. Are they going to have surround just the building with stairs?
A decade? Why not say "in the next century?"
Because those mean two very different things
@@Brendissimo1 In San Francisco, California it is the same. Check high speed rail project.
@@striker44 The Ferry Building is not the High Speed Rail Project. The Ferry Building is under the ownership of the City and County of San Francisco. The California High-Speed Rail Project is under the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
@@RaymondHng does it matter? Which california state or city projects are done with speed and quality, without delays or on budget?
Ohhh will Gavin Newsom be paying for this ?
All of the money spent on this could be used to build more housing instead lol
The engineers don't care how stupid this idea is. They only care about lining thier pockets with a pointless project.
You had me until you brought "climate change" into it. If you read the actual engineering documents, that's not what this is about.
You know EVERYTHINGGGGGGGG.
NOT. YOU JUST THINK YOU DO.
NEXT GENERATION WILL 💩 ON IT.
Yeah lets worry about climate change instead of crime, vacant stores and cracked out homeless people on the streets