Notices by scott f (scott@carfree.city)

First they made useless demands, then they also caved even on their useless demands. The US is a one-party state but in our typical extravagance we have two of them.
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-cave-on-demands-for-dhs-reforms-agree-to-short-term-spending-bill/

@luis_in_brief @skinnylatte That just makes me wonder what horrifying new stage the Marina has evolved into in the 2020s.

@skinnylatte Cancun was the/a favorite in my techie circle when I moved here mid 2010s. I guess La Taqueria was the other favorite

@skinnylatte I had a great first impression but then learned sadly v few things there can be made vegan, so I went back to Udupi. Glad you’re enjoying tho!

While the GoFundMe to support Renée Good's family raised $1.5 million, a GoFundMe for the family of Keith Porter, Jr., a Black man shot by an ICE agent a week earlier, hasn't met its $35,000 goal. Join me in donating if you're able: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-keiths-daughters-after-tragedy

@jeridansky Illinois Congresswoman* (hence the IL-02 after her name)

@minmi I bought one of the worst coffees of my life in Washington Heights 😅

@Andres4NY I don’t know how things have changed since 2014 when I left, but lower Manhattan and the cool parts of Brooklyn like Williamsburg, Park Slope, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights etc were Bay Area Expensive imo.
The more affordable outer borough locations still have subway service but it might be a really long commute that results and you give up access to green space more than you do in moving to relatively affordable Bay Area locations

@skinnylatte Do you have any recommended reading about why, even though a lot of the housing is "social housing," this happened? @Andres4NY

@skinnylatte ok yes that is fair!

@skinnylatte I don’t agree with that. Depending on where in the city they live and where they work, it’s possible that a car might still be a practical necessity, but it’s much less likely than in Austin. Mostly, people who aren’t used to walking and taking transit need to pick up that habit and jettison their assumptions about driving every day.

@skinnylatte and this is how we cajole new residents into selling their cars and taking the bus, and how we get a safer, more sustainable city. But Mayor Bluejeans doesn’t agree.

Muni is free tonight from 8pm to 5am the 1st! Extra Muni Metro service until 2am. AC Transit, SamTrans, and Caltrain also free from 8pm on, with extra service on Caltrain.

Details at https://ismunifree.com
#SanFrancisco #SFBA #SFBay

I’m helping put together a campaign for municipal #socialHousing here in San Francisco. If you’re already familiar with social housing, how would you define it? If you’re newer to the idea, what’s a question you have about social housing, or something you hope it can achieve?

@skinnylatte This seems like a point against moving to New York or anywhere else in the continental US/Canada, where the seasons are more pronounced than here. Maybe LA would be the only exception

@skinnylatte I should go back to Saluhall because Casa Borinqueña is legit. Some of the other places I liked closed tho and I remember they reduced the hours from closing at 10pm to closing at 8pm almost immediately after it opened, making it harder for my nightowl self.

It is so clear to me that Waymo, Zoox and other robocars are an existential threat to public transit, they exist to kill and devour it, every robotaxi win is a transit loss and vice versa. I'm sounding the alarm as loudly as I know how. But I feel like a Cassandra with how many urbanists won't see this.

On Tuesday, the SFMTA board casually discussed another fare increase, ignoring the harms that could cause, including to votes for next year's funding measures. All while the possibility of simply keeping parking meters turned on on evenings and Sundays was left off the table.

https://scott.mn/2025/12/19/sfmta_fare_increase/ #sfpol #TransitTooter

@skinnylatte that’s just it. It’s not how developed our country is, it’s how neoliberal our country is. As soon as we pass the 2026 transit funding measures (I refuse to entertain the catastrophic possibility they fail) we gotta ditch Cubic and switch to a public open standard.

San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.

We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/fund-san-francisco-social-housing-petition #sfpol