Notices by Billy Van Der Laar (wavdl@sfba.social)

@kingrat @lmc Same here

Since I've been knocking on doors this election season im reminded again how much I hate the San Francisco style house where nobody lives on the ground floor.

The worst versions are like this one, common out in the sunset, where you're just faced with a garage door and a gate. When someone answers the door they often open the front door at the top of the stairs where you can't see them and shout down, or just open the front window above you. I don't blame them for this, I wouldn't want to have to go up and down the stairs for no reason, it's just a very separated and isolated suburban type experience created by the obsession of stuffing car storage into everything we design.

Maybe I'm naive and idealistic but if I ever buy a house I want to be able to greet someone face to face when they come knocking on my door, even if they're some annoying canvasser I don't actually want to talk to.

@scott @kingrat ah I see, that would make more sense. I had thought maybe Phil meant crossing mid-block

@kingrat is crossing at an unmarked crosswalk under a different law than the "jaywalking" that was decriminalized just in 2023?

Just heard SFPD scold a cyclist over their cruisers loudspeaker to "next time, wait until the light turns green". I presume this was after they crossed with the leading pedestrian signal, which was explicitly made legal in California as of Jan. 2024. (And is far safer than waiting for a turning vehicle to hook you)

You can imagine my shock that these dumbass cops don't know the laws they're supposedly enforcing.

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