Notices by scott f (scott@carfree.city)

Getting there! More to be done on Valencia, but soon we'll at least have decent bike lanes for most of the street. And the bad idea of running bikes down the middle can be buried for good. #bikeSF

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2025/04/28/eyes-on-the-street-valencia-curbside-protected-bike-lanes-nearing-completion

@skinnylatte Have you had to deal with the buses with undercarriage bike racks? Those stumped me.

“As Fielder put it, the city is trying to serve 500 homeless families. If HSH gave them each a $3,500 monthly housing voucher, the annual cost would be $21 million. That’s…about 20 percent of what the city spends on police overtime. It’s also, Fielder points out, less than the city is prepared to spend building a habitat for pandas at the zoo.”

https://48hills.org/2025/04/fielder-proposal-to-protect-unhoused-families-runs-into-opposition-from-moderates/

A subtle but important move is to be able to disapprove strongly of what someone is doing, but at the same time to understand what is driving them to do it — a force, or situation, that is also unjust and must be changed if we want to stop people doing the bad thing on a systemic level.

It's unacceptable that many white people in those places have embraced racism and xenophobia and that majorities of voters in those places voted for a white-supremacist, fascist candidate for president. But what do you expect them to turn to, realistically, if the attitude of liberal Democrats is that their hometowns being economically destroyed is good, deserved, and inevitable? There is a reason far-right ideologies find fertile ground.

What inspires me to post this today isn't the common observation on the left that robberies, bippings, and the like, while unacceptable, are crimes of poverty that must be addressed on a systemic level. Rather, it's today's discourse on Bluesky that people in rural small towns that have been hollowed out by globalization are irredeemable racists, and should just get over it and move to the city.

Dramatic decrease in air pollution near 4th & King in SF when Caltrain went fully electric. BC = black carbon, a proxy for diesel particulates.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c01096

@skinnylatte Only one musical instrument at a time? That's not the ambitious Adrianna I know!

@Andres4NY a dissenting perspective: https://bsky.app/profile/evangreer.bsky.social/post/3llz5dbexv22e

@skinnylatte you know if it's vegan-friendly by chance?

@skinnylatte I guess I pictured Hong Kong as being like Vancouver: less affordable than SF in the sense median incomes are lower, but not more expensive in absolute terms

@skinnylatte Ouch.

You'd said this about Singapore... Sydney and HK too?

@kingrat I'm in the process of culling many books but still have many more I want to keep that don't fit on the shelves. I think I need another bookcase.

@PaulWermer @sanae yeah I want him to veggie me up!

@eniatitova Is there something you could ask him to do now, that would make up for the Laken Riley Act vote, or would also be important? (Has he taken a strong stance against Mahmoud Khalil being disappeared?)

who called it a “daily parking rate” and not “car, pay diem”

why does it still take a full hour to get from the mission to the outer Richmond? the 49 and 38r have “BRT”

terrible. when will people learn not to comply in advance? in order to preserve its federal funding, SamTrans has renamed itself SamCis.

Protest tonight against Archimedes Banya (in SF)’s transphobia https://www.instagram.com/p/DGy3y47yUcm/
#sfpol

@skinnylatte oh, there’s instructions on the true coops website. I was seeing an out of date link preview about a Washington state bill so I thought it didn’t apply to me in California. Thanks! @luis_in_brief