You're not a driver, Andrew, and you've made that very clear in your Facebook posts.; in fact, you're a bicyclist who makes no secret that you're very anti-car. Is this your weak attempt to make yourself look like someone else?
Re: the Kirkham St. Choker, there are stop signs on both ends of the rather short block that this is placed on. Stop signs are by far the cheapies and easiest ways to slow traffic. It would be really hard to speed on this block with those stop signs in place. This is a major reason why citizens in District 4 and recalling their supervisor. It is up to all of us to demand our city representatives put an end to these wasteful antagonistic projects directed at over 70% of population who won licensed vehicles.
BTW, Note to SFMTA and other pro-MUNI people: If you want people who own cars to take the bus, quit removing their right to park and leave their cars for long periods of time without moving them so they CAN take the bus.
Stop signs don't work, as evidenced by all the amount of speeding that actually happened on that block. The only thing that slows traffic down is physical impedance.
For the record, I'm a driver, and I don't feel "antagonized." Parking is still outrageously cheap, driving is still unreasonably easy for a city this dense, and every traffic calming measure and bike lane makes me feel much safer when i'm outside my car.
Another great report Lou. Just kind of mind boggling how the voters have gone "paws up" and let these people further ruin our once special city. They follow and promote the contagious mismanagement of state leadership by just refusing to acknowledge infrastructure maintenance. I used to get everywhere I wanted on Muni and now it is a shambles.
All I can say is "please vote the leeches out. We have a new mayor and hopefully he will make solid changes and rock the boat even further.
This is embarrassing to a once very proud native city kid.
Incompetent doesn't begin to describe it. In addition to what you've outlined in your excellent article, they've all been acting like see not problem monkeys. They knew at least last year they were facing fiscal problems, yet they continued on spending money on new non-urgent projects. Despite Breed's telling departments to freeze hiring, when Board President Emma Aichen resigned, she tucked into the MTA Strategy department at I'm sure, a modest salary.
Keep up the good work, Lou. We need more watchdogs like you. The depth of corruption and cash to friends and relatives is amazing. Whatever happened to an honest politician? Oh yes, once s/he's bought, s/he stays bought.
For years, I’ve asked the SFMTA to provide the raw data used to concoct these “surveys”. Petty stuff like evidence that demographic of the respondents represented the population affected, the quality controls used to ensure sure the validity ( duplicates, sample group eligibility) of the data, and the qualifications of the pollster. Total stonewall. Yet the media and local politicians parrot the SFMTA’s garbage verbatim as though it were incontrovertible evidence of support for whatever they plan.
Thanks for a great article again, Lou. I've reached the point where I no longer feel we're going to win the city's war against drivers. I was encouraged when both Breed and Tumlin stepped down, as during mayoral debates Lurie had expressed that he felt MTA's treatment of drivers in the city was unfair. But his recent appointment of Julie Kirschbaum to head the MTA only shows he's enabling the agency in the exact same manner Breed did. Kirschbaum has followed in Tumlin's footsteps during the last couple of months by continuing to remove parking spots all over the city and spending MTA's "budget transit deficit" on installing completely useless stoplights at almost every block in some districts. Meanwhile, just like Breed, Lurie looks the other way. Until we as drivers finally get angry enough to do something like protest en masse at City Hall or MTA, we'll continue to be forced out of the city and the small interest groups that are helping that along will have more clout than we ever will. Drivers in San Francisco are a very passive group who just continue to allow whatever gets taken away from them, and that's going to be our downfall.
Another excellent article well researched LB. IMO the first sentence tells all….I mean it is DEI, CRT,ESG San Francisco. What commiefornia and the CITY needs is ELON and TRUMP…it will happen one day …maybe. The 🐀party destroys all….stay tuned people for the heads on the left exploding by the sunlit uplands coming…that new mayor is a small start..very small.
This article prompted me to read the whole document and the index which resulted in nothing more than a world salad. I do want to point out that the survey cited here was done on 1,000 people. Not a statician so can't verify that 1,000 people is statistically significant but good for you to have the most updated information. PP 146-153 here https://www.sfmta.com/media/41811/download?inline
You're not a driver, Andrew, and you've made that very clear in your Facebook posts.; in fact, you're a bicyclist who makes no secret that you're very anti-car. Is this your weak attempt to make yourself look like someone else?
Re: the Kirkham St. Choker, there are stop signs on both ends of the rather short block that this is placed on. Stop signs are by far the cheapies and easiest ways to slow traffic. It would be really hard to speed on this block with those stop signs in place. This is a major reason why citizens in District 4 and recalling their supervisor. It is up to all of us to demand our city representatives put an end to these wasteful antagonistic projects directed at over 70% of population who won licensed vehicles.
BTW, Note to SFMTA and other pro-MUNI people: If you want people who own cars to take the bus, quit removing their right to park and leave their cars for long periods of time without moving them so they CAN take the bus.
Stop signs don't work, as evidenced by all the amount of speeding that actually happened on that block. The only thing that slows traffic down is physical impedance.
For the record, I'm a driver, and I don't feel "antagonized." Parking is still outrageously cheap, driving is still unreasonably easy for a city this dense, and every traffic calming measure and bike lane makes me feel much safer when i'm outside my car.
Great suggestion. If stop signs don't work, let's remove them.
Another great report Lou. Just kind of mind boggling how the voters have gone "paws up" and let these people further ruin our once special city. They follow and promote the contagious mismanagement of state leadership by just refusing to acknowledge infrastructure maintenance. I used to get everywhere I wanted on Muni and now it is a shambles.
All I can say is "please vote the leeches out. We have a new mayor and hopefully he will make solid changes and rock the boat even further.
This is embarrassing to a once very proud native city kid.
Fred H
Incompetent doesn't begin to describe it. In addition to what you've outlined in your excellent article, they've all been acting like see not problem monkeys. They knew at least last year they were facing fiscal problems, yet they continued on spending money on new non-urgent projects. Despite Breed's telling departments to freeze hiring, when Board President Emma Aichen resigned, she tucked into the MTA Strategy department at I'm sure, a modest salary.
Keep up the good work, Lou. We need more watchdogs like you. The depth of corruption and cash to friends and relatives is amazing. Whatever happened to an honest politician? Oh yes, once s/he's bought, s/he stays bought.
For years, I’ve asked the SFMTA to provide the raw data used to concoct these “surveys”. Petty stuff like evidence that demographic of the respondents represented the population affected, the quality controls used to ensure sure the validity ( duplicates, sample group eligibility) of the data, and the qualifications of the pollster. Total stonewall. Yet the media and local politicians parrot the SFMTA’s garbage verbatim as though it were incontrovertible evidence of support for whatever they plan.
Thanks for a great article again, Lou. I've reached the point where I no longer feel we're going to win the city's war against drivers. I was encouraged when both Breed and Tumlin stepped down, as during mayoral debates Lurie had expressed that he felt MTA's treatment of drivers in the city was unfair. But his recent appointment of Julie Kirschbaum to head the MTA only shows he's enabling the agency in the exact same manner Breed did. Kirschbaum has followed in Tumlin's footsteps during the last couple of months by continuing to remove parking spots all over the city and spending MTA's "budget transit deficit" on installing completely useless stoplights at almost every block in some districts. Meanwhile, just like Breed, Lurie looks the other way. Until we as drivers finally get angry enough to do something like protest en masse at City Hall or MTA, we'll continue to be forced out of the city and the small interest groups that are helping that along will have more clout than we ever will. Drivers in San Francisco are a very passive group who just continue to allow whatever gets taken away from them, and that's going to be our downfall.
Another excellent article well researched LB. IMO the first sentence tells all….I mean it is DEI, CRT,ESG San Francisco. What commiefornia and the CITY needs is ELON and TRUMP…it will happen one day …maybe. The 🐀party destroys all….stay tuned people for the heads on the left exploding by the sunlit uplands coming…that new mayor is a small start..very small.
This article prompted me to read the whole document and the index which resulted in nothing more than a world salad. I do want to point out that the survey cited here was done on 1,000 people. Not a statician so can't verify that 1,000 people is statistically significant but good for you to have the most updated information. PP 146-153 here https://www.sfmta.com/media/41811/download?inline