The operative noun misused in your post Joel is "I". You were not elected for your personal opinion. And you were not elected to represent the entire city.
You were elected to represent NOT substitute your opinion for D4 constituents.
What is remarkable is there was no studies done, no impact reports on traffic, on repercussions to existing wild life - the entire strip is a protected area for Snowy Plovers, and this is particularly glaring as both the SFMTA and Parks and Rec co-sponsored Prop K together with the author Myrna Melgar of D7.
What is further remarkable is your prioritization of a park when the city is $799M deficit, constitutants hurting from inflation, and recovering from 13.3% unemployment pandemic rate of 2020, [https://t.co/Hoz57ieWEU…].
Traffic ease, road repair and public transit safety should have been foremost on your list of to-do's.
Instead, you chose to play team with your compadres at the expense of your own D4 constituents.
You reap what you sow.
In light of all the hurdles, adhoc processes and back channeling we pressed for more time considering new leadership is stepping in soon. It fell on deaf ears.
https://t.co/exPAUgnW5j
@SFMTA_Muni You just put out a confusing 290 pg doc where maps aren't clear (prob by design).
You should host zooms, where you coherently share what you are thinking of doing here, bc it seems that you do intend to close roads & frankly you've lost public trust.
https://t.co/mDVXIUxka7
@SFMTA_Muni With your track record of aggressively closing streets and bending data to fit your agenda, you don’t have any legitimacy to state this. It’s a lie. You are filled with anti-car zealots who want a car free world. Don’t start posturing now @SFMTA_Muni we know what you are.
@SFMTA_Muni here's some facts: @SFMTA_Muni is an utter disaster. you can't manage a budget, are considering stopping San Francisco's iconic cable cars, and your director, comrade Jefferey Tumlin, earns roughly half a million dollars each year.
@SFMTA_Muni Because you are over paid bike lobby liars masquerading as transportation experts. You made Lake a “slow street” @openlakestreet even though the majority of residents were against it? You called Clement a residential st when it’s commercial and spent a million bucks for nothing
@SFMTA_Muni Your agency has alienated 3/4 of stakeholders. You fund an anti-car hate group, you’re anti-innovation, anti-family, anti-waymo and waste millions on bike lanes to nowhere - a conveyance invented in 1817 that is mostly 19th century. You’re a luddite fetishist club for toxic bros.
@JackieFielder_ Your priorities seem off. Why do we keep electing people that do not have the best interest of the majority of their actual constituents at heart.
@CMP662@sfstandard@JoelEngardio No it pitted wealthy vs non wealthy, childless vs family, young vs old, able bodied vs disabled and finally… selfish fanatic vs unselfish community minded.
That’s what it did. It exploited the low info, low vested interested voter. That’s all. @AT415287548@WestsideAsians
Thanks ALOT @GavinNewsom — trick me into buying an EV and then tell me that my bill will be cheaper if I only charge on non-peak hours while I’m sleeping with every light in my house off from midnight to 6am, and then screw me over with a $1,000 @PGE4Me bill.
SFMTA has a serious "reality" problem.
SF lost 10% population in pandemic, yet SFMTA is surprised that ridership is not "back" & thinks taxpayers should fund the deficit.
No.
SFMTA needs to restructure & cut expenses.
Focus on transit, not destroying businesses.