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Scott Feeney
@graue.bsky.social
car-free urbanist, socialist, semi-lapsed techie, gardener, guitar player. he/him

also on fedi https://carfree.city/@scott/
blog https://scott.mn
if only there were a socialist mayor in the middle…
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is part of why taxis are allowed. They're regulated and required to provide disability accommodations, which Waymo do not
November 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
They're not all dead and it's a major transit corridor and biking/rolling corridor. Both downtown traffic and transit ridership are significantly back up while injuries remain down 40% and transit 14% faster (and more importantly consistent) since Market was made car-free.
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Yeah according to this* cities are now banned from enacting single-stair until 2031 by the state. Boo.

*HAC is a developer lobbying group and I'm not endorsing them, but we can probably trust them on this factual info about the current legal conditions for single stair
Single-Stair Reform in California: A Local Breakthrough and What’s at Stake — Housing Action Coalition
In the quest to jumpstart housing production in California, a policy idea that has grown increasingly popular is single stair reform. The proposal would change the way we build apartmen...
housingactioncoalition.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The antidote to this would be an understanding of ecology: the balances and interconnections required for life to reproduce itself. Farming these things out to LLMs destroys that ecology. It destroys, going forward, the knowledge and relationships the LLMs had to mimic in the first place to work.
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Maybe he's just an idiot, but maybe he's working the refs on purpose. He knows the corporate owners of this supposedly-but-not-actually decentralized service are on his (pro-AI) side. He wants them to more aggressively moderate and cut off any backlash to elite, but otherwise unpopular, opinions.
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Who cares what people did in a campaign five years ago. Do you support spending an amount equal to the Prop I revenue on social housing, or not?
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Previously:
The Kirkham Neck-Down Works Great - Streetsblog San Francisco
Mainstream media manufactures a conflict where none exists
sf.streetsblog.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
On a sunny day west of Divis (rare) you can even use the sloped lawn at the bottom for a picnic like it's Dolores Park

No public restrooms nearby though :( I tried to have a birthday picnic there and learned day of they had removed the Pit Stop
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Interesting! I didn't realize it was under BOS jurisdiction.
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 AM
State bill? City ordinance? Who would put in poison pills? I thought we can do it at the city level but unclear on process.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I've heard pre-ordering a forthcoming book from an indie bookstore is especially helpful.
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
On that note, here's a petition to Mayor Lurie and the current SFBOS to fund social housing:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/fu...
Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program with Prop I Property Transfer Tax Revenue, as Promised!
In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I which levied a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million dollars. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution assuring voters it was th...
actionnetwork.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM