What’s shaping Hayes Valley, and who’s shaping it. For those paying attention.
Hayes Valley, San Francisco
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I’d like to backtrack to the year 2000 when I moved here. Same amount of people, now more ways to collect revenue/taxes. New housing (market rate )will _not_ make it more affordable. Everything else extremely unaffordable, including my property tax bill which now has add’lt taxes
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Oh great so in addition to the new parcel tax, the increased sales tax, and the privatization of our streets (bikes, "slow streets," "temporary closures," and "parks," we now pay to park in GGP. ? Part of the war on drivers or just on San Franciscans in general?
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TY @KDansky. Let's keep educating! Voters need to know all of the damage he's done. No re-election.
In addition to important bills you mention, he's raised our costs min est from $20 to $300/month.
So when he talks about affordability he's full of it.
Americans, ICYMI (and please share liberally):
This guy has been a state Senator in CA for 10 years. In that time, he has done some truly vile things.
He co-sponsored SB132, which requires prison officials to house male convicted felons (regardless of crime of conviction, yes including rape, murder, and child sexual abuse) in the women's prison with vulnerable women.
He co-sponsored SB357, which decriminalized loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution.
In 2023, Abigail Shrier wrote about he turned California into a "predator's paradise" and a "haven for human trafficking" (link ⬇️).
He has shown up to a variety of parades and events wearing leather gear, going so far as to publicly promote BDSM (screenshot and a link to a 2016 post that is still up ⬇️⬇️).
Those are just a few examples. The women of @WomenAreReals could provide many more.
All Americans deserve to know what he's about. He is utterly abhorrent. And now he's headed to Congress. 1/3
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Cyclist activists should be treated as manipulative liars. It's common knowledge that running red lights -- traffic infractions are civil offenses, not criminal offenses.
Straw man comparison.
Try just being intellectually honest.
Cyclists treat the Idaho stop as license to ignore red lights & stop signs, not even Yielding to cars which are already at the intersection.
And be honest: when approaching an intersection .. winded, tired ... , you can't guarantee that you completely saw everything left & right before pedaling through the stop sign or red light. This is especially true & risky at red lights & 2 way stops, where vehicles are approaching at speed from left or right and even harder to see.
The main risk may be to cyclists, but you encourage children to bike on city streets with this attitude. Every injury is treated as political ammunition in your regressive war against cars, Vision Zero, eg. to replace a car lane & a bike lane, to shut down roads, etc...
Even if the fault of the cyclist, an injury is still terrible, traumatic to everyone involved; recklessness avoidable & deplorable. The political attitude encouraging this recklessness is disgusting.
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"My 5 year old found a syringe with a substance in it. I disposed of it in the trash. Gratefully no one sustained an injection or ingested it. I am sending this as an fyi that this is concerning for someone accessing the playground and using substances."
Reported yesterday.
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I can smell it. Rotting flesh and burning Fetty. 3 day old food and rancid garbage cans. Human feces curbside to mark their territory. Stolen shit and a tent used for prostitution. Look folks. You’ve been bamboozled. Tell them to stop lying.
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Market St. in San Francisco was closed to private vehicles in January of 2020. Now just a few years later it has been reopened, but only to vehicles owned by large corporations.
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Not having a balanced transportation system only leads to animosity on the streets.
‘What wrong with you?’ Terrified pedestrian asks dangerous Lime bike rider skidding past her on pavement opposite St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Other pedestrians subjected to people riding bikes at speed & close passing them when they have green man to cross road. @ShabanaMahmood
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Failing upward is a systemic issue. Like I said. You cannot vote your way out of this. TURN THE PAGE.
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Reporting live from the Hayes Valley Street Closure …
we just discovered that an event planner was paid to host “bingo” for a certain $ amount in the closed street.
Taxpayers should seriously be asking the City and SFMTA if this is appropriate.
#ReOpenHayes
Reporting live from the Hayes Valley Street Closure …
we just discovered that an event planner was paid to host “bingo” for a certain $ amount in the closed street.
Taxpayers should seriously be asking the City and SFMTA if this is appropriate.
#ReOpenHayes
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When a Supervisor thanks ‘Hayes Valley,’ but the only voices elevated come from a nonprofit membership club that controls the closure permit and removes opposing viewpoints, that’s not broad representation.
That’s curated politics.
