Proposal to build a freeway system connecting the South Bay area and western San Francisco to Golden Gate Bridge, 1958-1964

Embarcadero Freeway cutting in front of the Ferry Building....

.... and leading nowhere

Vernon DeMars plan to enhance the Embarcadero Freeway with a plaza across the road (pre-1989)

Destruction of the Embarcadero Freeway after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake