The plan had been to extend the freeway in two directions: and through in the Hayes Valley neighborhood to the west of San Francisco’s Civic Center. This vote canceled the Central Freeway as well as the Embarcadero Freeway, leaving the spur of the Central Freeway that had already been built, which went from I-80 across Market St. The first phase of the Central Freeway opened in 1959, the same year when the Board of Supervisors voted to cancel seven of the ten freeways planned for the city, after receiving petitions signed by 30,000 San Franciscans, as described in the section about the Embarcadero Freeway. The Central Freeway was part of San Francisco's 1951 plan to crisscross the city with freeways, the same plan that included the Embarcadero Freeway. The Central Freeway and the Freeway Revolt Ultimately, the city decided to remove the Central Freeway and replace it with a ground-level boulevard, which opened up land for new housing and led to the revival of the surrounding Hayes Valley neighborhood. The battle was so fierce that citizens initiatives brought it to the voters three times. The main opponents of removal were residents of west San Francisco - the lowest density part of the city - who used the freeway to drive to their homes.
The battle over removing the Central freeway dragged on for many years. But after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, this freeway was damaged and closed, like the Embarcadero freeway, inspiring a movement to remove it rather than repair it. Unlike the Embarcadero freeway, the Central Freeway was not on spectacular waterfront property, so there was not an early movement to remove it. All that was built was a freeway spur to the west of San Francisco’s Civic Center. Like the Embarcadero freeway, San Francisco’s Central Freeway was partly built during the 1950s before it was stopped was stopped by San Francisco's freeway revolt.
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