🧵 ALERT: set your 👉🏼 ⏲️ for 6pm. We'll live-thread the D4 supervisor candidate debate at the Irish Cultural Center to hear about #housing, the Great Highway/Sunset Dunes, and more. The special election is in June. Alan Wong is fighting to keep his seat and the chance to run again in November.
It's budget season in Sacramento, and preventing the collapse of public transportation is low on Governor Newsom's priority list right now.
There are lots of important priorities in Sacramento, but CA can't afford to clog our roads with traffic.
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But, like, where are the cars going to go here without causing problems?
Especially if we're talking about rideshares, who are going to want to pull over anywhere they can to drop people off and pick them up.
The geometry just doesn't work.
It's unfortunate that Better Market Street was massively scaled back.
If Lurie wanted to lead, he would commit to maintaining car-free Market, solving real safety issues, and re-start the Living Innovation Zone program like @lukespray.bsky.social proposed
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Flooding Market Street with cars is bad policy.
✅Buses are up to 4 min faster (an unheard of improvement in transit!)
✅Collisions are down (Market is already one of the most dangerous streets in SF)
Cars won't bring back business, but they will slow down buses and make the street more dangerous
Sf chronicle headline about drivers who threaten violence against city employees for traffic changes, with a headline about the “war on cars”
Headline about a driver killing a pedestrian on the great highway
More like war on pedestrians
Sf standard headline declaring that it’s pedestrians’s fault they keep dying
Excerpt from article about a driver going 72mph who killed a family of 4 who was waiting for the bus in west portal
Yep, definitely the pedestrians’ fault they keep dying.
Nothing to be done here @sfstandard.com
California AARP is actually quite pro-bike and pro-housing! They co-sponsored Scott Wiener’s SB 960 this year to require CalTrans to build complete streets and many pro-housing bills too.
When the time is right, you can feel ok about supporting them
New condo building in LA
New townhomes in LA
I saw more drivers fail to yield to pedestrians in one day walking around LA than the entire past year in San Francisco.
And the speeding is out of control.
OTOH they’re building some new missing middle housing to replace the dingbats so that’s at least nice 💁♀️
It’s not bad but would be so much better if they just made it impossible to drive around to the right
The Kirkham version is a start…but not quite there
