The Newsom administration has no plan to remove homeless people from the streets.  When his administration began, there were over 1800 shelter beds; today there are 1212 shelter beds (according to city records). How do you move homeless people off the street if the number of shelter beds are being reduced.  Newsom may talk all he wants about his outreach programs, but there are 2771 homeless people on the streets (according to the 2007 homeless report) and most of the shelter space is filled every night.  The fact that there may be some available beds in the shelters because people Read This Post »

My pet peeves with SF are the unreliability of Muni (why does it take me 1 hour to travel 5 miles!)  and also the trash/graffiti/crime problem, especially in the southeast side of the City. Name Withheld Read This Post »

People are buying, and PG&E is giving away, those energy efficient fluorescent light bulbs by the thousands, perhaps millions.  However, no one seems to be informing people that these bulbs have mercury in them and must be disposed of in hazardous waste sites, not in the regular garbage and landfills. I am concerned that when they do finally burn out, thousands, even millions, of these bulbs will end up in our landfills, spilling their mercury, because people probably won't know NOT to put them in the regular garbage disposal.  When I bought a box of these bulbs, I finally found Read This Post »

I often spend as much time driving around looking for parking as I do driving to my destination.  If people could drive straight to a parking garage near where they are going it would cut pollution in half.  Not to mention make it a lot less frustrating to live or visit SF, and enhance local businesses near the garages.  Name Withheld Read This Post »

Divisadero, Fulton, etc.   There was a ballot item a few years ago to raise the money but it got shot down because of a provision not to permit landlords to pass along tax raises to renters.  How about if the people who live here and drive on the streets shell out a few bucks to pay for some new pavement.  Take a drive around almost any area from Palo Alto to San Jose to see that decent pavement is not a bank breaking item for a local government.  If they can do it so can SF.  The bad pavement makes Read This Post »

Just a few questions.  Mayor Newsom consistantly tells San Francisco voters that he expects to be accountable.  However, in answer to the severe homeless problem, he has presented a 10-year plan.  How does Newsom expect to be held accountable for a 10-year plan that will expire long after he is out of the mayor's office?  Does Mayor Newsom believe that he should be held accountable for the increase in the number of homeless people over the period 2005 to 2007?  Would he agree that the best way to hold him accountable is not to vote for him next month?  If Read This Post »

Now that there is pressure on vagrants in some parts of the City, they are moving back onto the 1500 block of Market street. Any given morning there are at least 5 and usually as many as 10 or more people camping and drinking and drunk in that block by 8:00 in the morning. Another part of why they keep appearing there is because there is a store in that block that sells liquor very early in the morning and also allows them to keep their shopping carts in their store - so that they can continue to cynically take Read This Post »

I FIND THAT CRITICAL MASS IS OUT OF CONTROL AND THE CITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT LACK CONTROL OF THIS WHOLE SITUATION. CRITICAL MASS IS NOT A PEACEFUL PROTEST. ALL THEY DO IS CAUSE TRAFFIC AND TROUBLE. THEY DON'T OBEY TRAFFIC LAWS AT ALL. I FEEL IT IS THE GOVERNMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENTS DUTY TO MAKE SURE THEY PROTEST IN A MANNER THAT DOES NOT OFFEND OTHERS. SOMEONE IS NOT DOING THEIR JOB. I CHALLENGE YOU TO TAKE ON THE DUTY OF GETTING THEM UNDER CONTROL. Daniel Read This Post »

MUNI - usually, things are running pretty well; however two days running, Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27, I experienced major delays on the 38 and 5 lines. On 10/26 around 12:30 pm, I was returning to the Outer Richmond District from downtown, at Geary and Taylor; I waited 45 minutes for a bus.  There were 10 of us waiting, two people had to flag down cabs, because they didn't want to be late for work.  And, on Saturday, Oct. 27th I waited for a 5 Fulton bus for 35 minutes at 9:15am at 30th Ave and Fulton, heading for Read This Post »

MUNI! Most recently (within the past month) I have boarded the inbound N or T Metro at approx. 5:40 PM @ Harrison/Embarcadero when the fare box has been out of order and the driver has refused to issue a transfer so that I could transfer to the J. Since I use the $15 Muni coupon book - this causes two problems: (1) Non payment of fares and loss of revenue (2) Exposing passengers to the risk of being ticketed by an inspector on arrival at the next station before transferring to the next train, assuming the fare box is in Read This Post »

I'm a resident of Berkeley and plan on moving to SF within a few months.  Not that this affects me economically but a lot of people mention affordable housing in SF.  I keep seeing construction being done on new apartment complexes in Downtown through Mission Bay that don't even offer affordable housing rates at say 400-800 per month per person.  I REALLY don't want SF to be turned into an upscale-oriented community where rent prices are too high and more minorities are being forced to leave the city.  If there can be anything done to address this issue, I would Read This Post »

Garbage garbage garbage for many years. Louise Brady Read This Post »

My biggest peeve is the fact that middle class people can't buy housing in sf. This is not a peeve it's an outrageous situation. The beauty and culture of SF has worked against itself...making it out of reach to most people who are in fact those who make the city great.... Lawraine Smith Read This Post »

This school lottery system is the most absurd disincentive I've ever seen for building educated, civic-minded communities. Those of us with children approaching kindergarten age are spending outrageous amounts of time (and lost work productivity) visiting schools throughout the city in hopes of finding a -decent- education for our children. Every parent I know is visiting 10 to 20 public schools in hopes of finding a short list of seven, in the hopes that we'll get ONE of them (and with any luck not have to drive across town every morning), which isn't even guaranteed. So we're all backing them Read This Post »

Why can't you, as Mayor, override Republicrat Diane Feinstein's influence, and get San Francisco to be energy independent?  I'm sure you know that her husband is a big share holder in PG & E.  Secondly, How about converting city vehicles to electric drives, either by plug in hybrids, or better yet, 100% electric? Angelo Vesta Read This Post »

It is the attitude and non-action of the mayor and supervisors that allow the most outrageous acts to go on without blinking an eye. I think if it continues, anyone with a brain will move out of the City. Why stay and pay for those that don't legally belong here, don't want to get a job, don't want to go to a shelter, don't want to obey laws, don't want to allow the police to do their job, etc. Why Mr. Mayor??????? Name Withheld Read This Post »

A few homeless are ruining the streets of the financial district where I live and work.  Nothing we do seems to help.  Please let us know that you care and that you will do something about this.  At night our sidewalks and doorways become camping sites and bathrooms. Name Withheld Read This Post »

Filthy streets filled with panhandlers Name Withheld Read This Post »

(It's now a two-way stop, not four-way). I hear horns honking every day and have seen many  near misses and one accident. It's a blind intersection and dangerous. Do something now. Name Withheld Read This Post »

Not a peeve but a suggestion.  Market Street trees below Van Ness look tired and scraggly. I suggest that you trim them like the California Street trees so that they gain some thickness and body. Name Withheld Read This Post »