Great article Lou. San Franciscans need to know who is responsible for the traffic nightmare. The business owners needs to form their own coalitions to protect their businesses otherwise many will be forced to shutter; just like Westfield Mall.
The city has lost its mind . So glad Supervisor Engardio got recalled. SF needs to start listening to its people to the business owners and the people that spend money. The Bay Area is never going to be Europe no matter how much they build near public transportation because our transportation sucks and is too expensive. San Mateo just took out bike lanes they put in and had removed parking- like sf did on Valencia. I think after they pay back the Feds it’s going to cost over $4 million.
San Carlos is trying to spend $118 in today’s dollars on a master plan without doing a complete traffic analysis ( with a million dollar fountain , I guess they only believe in climate change sometimes and a rain garden) they are
supposed to be an age friendly city while removing 56 more parking spots and one lane each way on San Carlos Ave . They had not even spoken to EMT services!
As a bike rider of over 100,000 miles on SF streets I agree with you. Narrow, so called protected lanes on the right side of cars are very dangerous. I was wrecked on one of them on a curve on JFK. Many of today’s bike riders don’t ride as well as I was taught at age 7. Why didn’t Melgar tell bike riders they would have zero right of way ever on UGH, and would have to go a lot slower most of the time than the previous 30 some years?
Supervisor Melgar is anti bike, anti car, and anti pedestrian in my opinion. Closing UGH to cars weekdays has made the other streets more dangerous. My life has been threatened four times since weekday shutdown of UGH. My life as a pedestrian crossing UGH is worse than before, having to avoid bicyclists not yielding in the crosswalks. The UGH closing has been done unsafely and incompetently. Is Supervisor Melgar any less to blame then Joel Engardio or Ginsberg? Why as a Sierra Club leader, has she supported the pro global warming, pro increased fuel consumption, and other negative effects of the significantly increased driving due to UGH weekday closure. When did the Sierra Club become anti environment? Should we still support them or any of those supervisors supporting anti environmental prop K?
Great article Lou. San Franciscans need to know who is responsible for the traffic nightmare. The business owners needs to form their own coalitions to protect their businesses otherwise many will be forced to shutter; just like Westfield Mall.
The city has lost its mind . So glad Supervisor Engardio got recalled. SF needs to start listening to its people to the business owners and the people that spend money. The Bay Area is never going to be Europe no matter how much they build near public transportation because our transportation sucks and is too expensive. San Mateo just took out bike lanes they put in and had removed parking- like sf did on Valencia. I think after they pay back the Feds it’s going to cost over $4 million.
San Carlos is trying to spend $118 in today’s dollars on a master plan without doing a complete traffic analysis ( with a million dollar fountain , I guess they only believe in climate change sometimes and a rain garden) they are
supposed to be an age friendly city while removing 56 more parking spots and one lane each way on San Carlos Ave . They had not even spoken to EMT services!
The visual distractions of the red streets and the polka dots seems excessive.
Reader comment:
Lou
As a bike rider of over 100,000 miles on SF streets I agree with you. Narrow, so called protected lanes on the right side of cars are very dangerous. I was wrecked on one of them on a curve on JFK. Many of today’s bike riders don’t ride as well as I was taught at age 7. Why didn’t Melgar tell bike riders they would have zero right of way ever on UGH, and would have to go a lot slower most of the time than the previous 30 some years?
Supervisor Melgar is anti bike, anti car, and anti pedestrian in my opinion. Closing UGH to cars weekdays has made the other streets more dangerous. My life has been threatened four times since weekday shutdown of UGH. My life as a pedestrian crossing UGH is worse than before, having to avoid bicyclists not yielding in the crosswalks. The UGH closing has been done unsafely and incompetently. Is Supervisor Melgar any less to blame then Joel Engardio or Ginsberg? Why as a Sierra Club leader, has she supported the pro global warming, pro increased fuel consumption, and other negative effects of the significantly increased driving due to UGH weekday closure. When did the Sierra Club become anti environment? Should we still support them or any of those supervisors supporting anti environmental prop K?
Eric
Outer Sunset
Is the PORTALS still there?
No it closed years ago
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