{"id":236291,"date":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/plaza-de-panama-gets-new-look\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T07:00:00","slug":"plaza-de-panama-gets-new-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/plaza-de-panama-gets-new-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaza de Panama gets new look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan M. Hurley | Downtown Editor<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3454\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Plaza-de-P-concept-web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3454 lazyload\" alt=\"Plaza concept plan, which is subject to change (Courtesy of City of San Diego Park and Recreation Department)\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Plaza-de-P-concept-web-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/224;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plaza concept plan, which is subject to change (Courtesy of City of San Diego Park and Recreation Department)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mayor Bob Filner made good on his promise to remove cars from Plaza de Panama the week of June 17, when the plaza was cleared of cars and painted to allow for a large open pedestrian-only space and limit the through traffic and cars to one lane in each direction.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabrillo Bridge was closed for a time so the City\u2019s contractor could apply a \u201ctan\/buff color\u201d to the pedestrian areas and the solo traffic lanes of a \u201cbedrock\u201d color.<\/p>\n<p>During an awards luncheon with the Greater San Diego Business Association on June 20, Filner mentioned the changes to the Plaza as one of his accomplishments of the last six months. \u201cI didn\u2019t need $40 million, I needed six traffic cones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Park\u2019s Facebook page, a new red Balboa Park Tram has begun free service, which will have pick-up points at Inspiration Point, the Organ Pavilion, Air &amp; Space Museum, Sixth Avenue and Laurel Street, and Upas Street, every half hour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3455\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/plaza-de-panama-painted-web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3455 lazyload\" alt=\"Plaza improvements underway (Courtesy Balboa Park Central)\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/plaza-de-panama-painted-web-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plaza improvements underway (Courtesy Balboa Park Central)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Benches will be installed at various locations for the tram, and new trees, caf\u00e9 style tables and chairs will be installed throughout the plaza to encourage pedestrian traffic and offer places for visitors to eat or relax.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan M. Hurley | Downtown Editor Mayor Bob Filner made good on his promise to remove cars from Plaza de Panama the week of June 17, when the plaza was cleared of cars and painted to allow for a large open pedestrian-only space and limit the through traffic and cars to one lane in each [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":236292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Plaza de Panama gets new look","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11552,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}