SF Commuters

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

Prop K is a wrong policy. The fight against it should never be over. The Great Highway is a historic road and a part of a regional highway. Closing this road is like turning off an artery in our body of the transportation system - it’ll deactivate a part of the region.

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

The Great Highway fight isn't over: a new lawsuit argues that the city ignored the state's authority and unlawfully placed the measure before San Francisco voters.

📝: @lihanlihan https://t.co/RqJbb6qxFJ

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

The future of transit is small, compact, comfortable and trusted. #futureoftransit

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

The future should look like the future

Robovan is 🤯

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

Very cool to see @SFMTA_Muni not enforcing traffic while also not enforcing crime on trains to see which one will bankrupt public transit in San Francisco first!

[HVS @HayesValleySafe]

When the Central Freeway came down, Octavia Blvd was built as its replacement. Even SFMTA’s director later acknowledged it fell short of its promise.

The City’s response was more closures...
first Octavia at Hayes, and later Hayes Street itself. Five years on, local businesses are reporting harm while the neighborhood remains divided.

https://t.co/7p35LUNjz8

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

I reverse engineered the San Francisco parking ticket system. I can see every ticket seconds after it's written

So I made a website. Find My Friends? AVOID THE PARKING COPS.

[Dimitrios @DimitriTheMaker]

🏖️ Great Highway Sand Removal Costs Going UP, Not Down. Sand removal will need to happen 3.7x more often than before, meaning costs will likely increase from about $300K a year to at least $1.1M moving forward.

https://t.co/R6rh4GVHxA

Thanks for the thorough research and write up @johnbcrabtree!
@MHurabiell @JoelEngardio @DanielLurie

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@Scott_Wiener This means we need cost saving measures for transit. Keep unchecked spending with unsatisfactory service has not been working.

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

The future of transit is not in mass mode. Time to do something new. Smaller fully self driving autonomous vehicles in tunnels for higher safety, privacy & satisfaction. Point-to-point and flexible and without stopping at anyone else’ stops. Las Vegas Loop. 53 days $100m per mile

[Dan S. Johnson @DanJohnsonCRE]

Hundreds of thousands of workers across the San Francisco Bay Area were stranded today.

BART & SF MUNI are examples of complete organizational failure and mismanagement.

Here is a quote from someone very close BART/MUNI which highlights the incompetence:

"Yes, apart from today’s shut down, both Bart and Muni have problems. BART and MUNI are, compared to other major city transportation systems:
(1) running huge deficits,
(2) have increasingly ballooning pension obligations,
(3) amongst the highest cost per mile traveled,
(4) amongst the highest cost per rider trip,
(5) have some of the highest labor costs,
(6) have deferred maintenance, and finally
(7) continued fraud, gate crashing and mismanagement persist. About two years ago at a meeting with MUNI leadership, I asked if they benchmarked the items above with other large City “well run” transportation systems to understand and identify where improvements can be made. The answer was, “No, we never thought about that.”"

These organziations need to remade from the ground up using first priniciples and operated like business. The current status quo is unsustainable.

I'm FIRMLY against any tax increases to fund our transportation agencies until they copy effective agencies in other cities, downsize their headcount, and get new leadership.

Stop the waste. Stop the incompetence.

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

This is why the future of transit should not be mass mode. Go small @SFBART! Go personalized.

[Alan Mond @mondalan]

BART train was completely filled with smoke while stopped under the bay bridge. Luckily no one was hurt.

[Chinese American Democratic Club (CADC) @sf_cadc]

Thank you @SFDemocrats for the No Endorsement and let the Sunset decide!

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@Scott_Wiener Closing the Great Highway deactivated the west side. It’s wrong. When are you going to say sorry?!

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@JoelEngardio Ulloa doesn’t have a crosswalk across the Upper Great Highway. Don’t let @KidSafeSF weaponize this to be an anti-car issue please.

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@JoelEngardio @sfchronicle You owe the 20,000 commuters an apology and you need to reverse the damages.

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@JoelEngardio @sfchronicle SF Chronicle and you are both wrong in closing the Great Highway. The closure deactivated the Western neighborhoods and put commuters and communities into danger.

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@JoelEngardio Open the Great Highway!

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@JoelEngardio Closing the Great Highway deactivated the Sunset and the Richmond.
Open the Great Highway!

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@JoelEngardio Please ensure we have access to the Great Highway in case of emergency and evacuation.

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@JoelEngardio Open the Great Highway!

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@JoelEngardio Make sure it doesn’t drastically impact regular traffic.

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@scsherrill Every major corridors are now slowing to a crawl - 10 - 15mph bc the traffic lights are out of synch - red lights at every intersection. When people can’t get to their destinations in a timely manner, they’ll take their business outside of the city. Please strike a balance.

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@scsherrill Of course street condition needed to be cleared off. But even if it is cleared off, it would have limited appeal to shoppers when it doesn’t have ample parking & doesn’t allow slower traffic double parking for loading - transit red carpet and traffic corridor have taken up 2 uses

[SF Commuters @SFCommuters]

@scsherrill There are 4 uses of a street: transit, merchant, traffic, slow-moving. Most streets can’t survive more than two uses. Van Ness has too many uses for the merchant-use to be successful.