Penca showcases the cuisine of Central Mexico in an elegant environment, respecting traditional ingredients while incorporating modern techniques.įor stand-out winter entrees, get the Coles con Mole Chilhuacle, which features seasonal veg, mint, quinoa, and mole or Robalo, a pan-seared white fish with lentils, parsley, pumpkin, and mint. Cushing Street & Avenida del Conventoīroadway Boulevard & Stone Avenue Chamorro en Pipian Rojo at Penca (Credit: Jackie Tran) Read our January 2019 article 10 Edible Reasons to Visit the Mercado District.įor more information, visit. on Thursdays, the Santa Cruz Farmers Market is hosted there. Sit inside at one of the sleek bar tops or enjoy the weather outside in the Spanish colonial-inspired courtyard.īonus perk: from 4 - 7 p.m. The westernmost stop of the Sun Link is at Mercado San Agustin, home to edibly delightful destinations including Agustin Kitchen, Dolce Pastello Cakes, Seis Kitchen, La Estrella Bakery Inc., Presta Coffee Roasters, and Sonoran Sno-Cones. Avenida del Convento & Congress Street (Photo courtesy of Presta Coffee Roasters on Facebook) In order to ride the Sun Link, you need to get a SunGO ticket, SunGO card, or can download the GoTucson Transit Mobile App. In this case, crawling distance means half a block at most. While you can walk a few blocks from each stop for a massive array of restaurants and bars, we've narrowed the choices down to locations within crawling distance of nine stops. The Sun Link travels through the Mercado District, Downtown Tucson, Fourth Avenue, Main Gate Square, and the University of Arizona. I think it's crucial for our future as a city that we learn from our successes and missteps and be truly transit-first.If you want to explore outstanding food and drink without driving, take advantage of the Sun Link, Tucson's streetcar. San Francisco was the first city in the US to have a publicly run transit system-it's deep in our roots. As the city continues to fight for Bus Rapid Transit down Geary, I wonder if we might have rail serving the Richmond today, had we not abandoned routes like the C Geary. They were upgraded to use light rail vehicles that are more efficient and provide a better experience than buses in many ways. They were built on top of the few streetcar routes that remained in operation. The Muni Metro lines that lots of San Franciscans enjoy today-like the J, K, L, M and N-weren't built from scratch when the Muni Metro project began in the '70s. I also wanted this project to tell a story, because I think there are some lessons to learn here. I was lucky enough to have the SFMTA allow me to visit their archives where they showed me old maps, charts, and provided me with tons of great photos. I wanted to share this history with others in a way that was really easy to consume, so I went to SF's public library and found some books that described the old streetcar routes in detail. When I started digging into the history of our streetcars, it was hard to find information in one place. There's something I love about seeing old photos of street corners I immediately recognize, but in such a different context. Since I've moved to San Francisco and fallen in love with the city, I've caught glimpses of the history of our public transit in many places-SFMTA's posters at transit stops, sites like Old SF (and Hoodline!) and even seeing the partial remnants of tracks in the road in Potrero. In his own words, here's what drove Arvin to create this resource: The map, created by local designer Chris Arvin, combines data from four different sources to give viewers the names and photos of routes that operated in decades past, in comparison to the city's streetcar network today. And thanks to the new interactive map Where The Streetcars Used To Go, history buffs can retrace their historic routes without leaving home. Once upon a time, San Francisco was crawling with streetcars.
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