Coming February 24th, after work, after school, there’s the third in a string of community meetings at which the future of Cesar Chavez will be decided upon. Mark your calendars.
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Allan Hough (7858)
Brittany Janis & Katie Cruz (104)
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Coming February 24th, after work, after school, there’s the third in a string of community meetings at which the future of Cesar Chavez will be decided upon. Mark your calendars.
Allan Hough (7858)Brittany Janis & Katie Cruz (104)
Here’s a wild idea for the Phase 1… Get rid of the day laborers! Start policing the area! Keep it clean!
Why reinvent the wheel?
BTW. I live at 26th and South Van Ness
Ha, are you kidding? Day laborers, like the homeless, are SF’s sacred cows. Touch them and a million screaming liberals will burn your house down.
Is that more than 7 trees? Of the same genus? CHAIN! CHAIN!!! Let’s meet at Ritual and figure out how to stop this madness! Who’s with me? Bree?
OK, that was possibly the best MM comment ever.
Worse, they aren’t native SF trees!
Seriously — nearly half of the most common trees in SF are originally from Australia or NZ.
Damn foreigners, controlling our oxygen production.
Nothing will be decided at this meeting. There have already been two meetings. At the first meeting, the planning department had already made all the significant decisions. Really the only decision the residents have had any input on is whether the median should be widened or the sidewalks should be widened. But widening the sidewalks is much more expensive (because all the utilities underneath have to be moved). So really there was only one choice in the end.
I think at this meeting residents will able to opine on where the left hand turn lanes will be.
Early in the process, it was suggested that the entire idea of removing traffic lanes on CC was a bad idea and would create huge traffic jams. The traffic study for the bike plan confirmed this.
It would really make more sense to make 26th St. a bike boulevard and make other safety and beautification improvements to CC. But the Planning Department refused to even consider that possibility. It believes that bikes have a “calming effect” on traffic. As a cyclist, I would rather bike on a safe boulevard than be traffic fodder on jammed highway on-ramp, but the Planning Department does not see it that way.
Actually, Planning came into this process after a grassroots effort to calm Cesar Chavez, led by CC Puede and other neighborhood groups and individuals, had already been pushing these changes for three years. So the decisions presented by Planning reflect the wishes of the 600-plus people who signed petitions asking for these changes and the sense of numerous earlier community meetings. This explains why no one wants to go back to the drawing board now.
I live on 26th and I cycle, but the point of the Cesar Chavez plan is to make life less miserable for pedestrians, residents, school children, etc., who must cross or travel on that street and not just to add a bike lane. The bike lane has always been just one piece of a complicated pie. Also, 26th St. deadends at Hampshire and is impractical for cyclists going, say, to Caltrain.
In response to earlier posters, the Day Labor Program is working to clean the street, and the workers who are forced to leave their homes to find a living here are just as much a part of our community as these commenters. Next time you enjoy your coffee or banana, reflect for a moment on the land theft and union busting in Central America and Mexico that keep the profits from these in the hands of a few and send displaced farmers out to stand on a street in San Francisco.
@Fran Taylor Ummm… What? “Day Labor Program is working to clean the street, and the workers who are forced to leave their homes to find a living here are just as much a part of our community as these commenters.” Last time I looked for a job, I didn’t piss, shit or sit on your car did I? Quit believe that these magical SF program work, its horseshit. Evict these illegal immigrants. This whole “we do the jobs no one else wants” bullshit no longer holds water… Not with this high unemployment rate.
26th St. would be an excellent bike boulevard. At Hampshire it could be routed to Cesar Chavez. Bike lanes could be created by removing parking along those sections rather than removing traffic lanes. This approach has been suggested but the planning department refuses to consider it.
It is unfortunate that the Planning Department is considering input only from a small number of people who live near CC and completely disregarding the much larger group of people who rely on it every day. CC should be made safer and more pleasant, but the current plan will just create a traffic disaster.