I can handle waiting half an hour for an N to show up at Carl and Cole during morning rush hour to take me down town. It sucks but it happens so frequently Iím used to it. I can deal with the cattle-car conditions on the N itself hundreds people packed in like doomed galley slaves. I can withstand the constant barrage of delays in the tunnel. I've even grown accustomed to the terrible customer service: the surly, mean, dismissive attitude shared by most Muni drivers. These drivers routinely display the stereotypical worst behavior of the protected civil servant whom Read This Posty »

The city needs to encourage "green streets" by subsidizing street trees, but NOT through FUF (Friends of the Urban Forest). I am very interested in planting a street tree in front of my house, but in order to qualify for a FUF tree I would have to organize 25 of my neighbors and plan 2 neighborhood "planting" meetings. I think city funding would be better spent with direct subsidies for trees to homeowners, instead of going through FUF which makes it very, very difficult to get a tree. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

I am off work for 1 week and have spent time at home for the first time in ages.  Many walks through Golden Gate Park.  One thing that I have noticed on a very regular basis.  We are supposed to be a "Green" city, which I would think would include water conservation.  Most sprinklers are going strong and simply watering the street.  Can these sprinklers not be watched and adjusted to water the plants and grass.  It is a shameful waste. Peggy O'Sullivan Read This Posty »

 A "world class" city needs "world class" transportation. I've traveled much of the US, western Europe. SF public transportation is poor by comparison. From fare jumpers, filthy seats/floors, *extremely poor* on-time performance (no matter the statistics - personal experience is far different), surly drivers.... all is in need of improvement. Vast improvement. In an effort to live a greener life, I sold my car over a year ago. Now, I'm researching prices to buy another...... Name Withheld Read This Posty »

 A "world class" city needs "world class" transportation. I've traveled much of the US, western Europe. SF public transportation is poor by comparison. From fare jumpers, filthy seats/floors, *extremely poor* on-time performance (no matter the statistics - personal experience is far different), surly drivers.... all is in need of improvement. Vast improvement. In an effort to live a greener life, I sold my car over a year ago. Now, I'm researching prices to buy another...... Name Withheld Read This Posty »

I am tired of always getting reactions from out of towners when I say I am from San Francisco  I get this reaction as though I have the plague.  I blame the Supervisors of San Francisco Gerardo Sandoval and others.   It's a sad day for a lifetime San Franciscan and Republican. This election I am voting to save my city! Steve Read This Posty »

THESE TREES ARE BEING  DESTROYED WHEN WE NEED TO ADD TREES TO OUR CITY. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

After hearing from everyone how great "The City" was, I was excited to have moved here. Now, four years later, this so-called great city has never materialized. Sure SF has some good qualities (like many other places) but to call it the best place in the world and constantly bash others to cover up an ingrained inferiority complex is preposterous, misleading, and just plain ludicrous. This city has terrible problems, that for a city its size, are pretty damn shameful. They need to be acknowledged and tackled, not glossed over. When are people going to wake up and learn to Read This Posty »

Let's get grocery stores to by the compostable plastic bags for rainy days.  Wenterra makes Natural Bags for our compost bins, they must have a grocery bag product, let's face it paper bags don't work well in the rain. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

We need big recycle bins at the beach, not the dinky wire basket on top of a trash can, this is not a very GREEN solution. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Dear Mr. Mayor:  I read with interest your views regarding the green corridor, encouraging businesses and individuals to contribute to a green San Francisco.  I witnessed a problem next door to me.  A small business dry cleaner was ordered to remove his sidewalk plants or pay a $750 fee.  I wrote a request for an investigation to Supervisor Daly's office (Peskin was totally useless).  I pointed out that the plants were rare and beautiful and had been in the community for fifteen years.  They were not in anyone's way.  Daly's office did an inquiry to the  Director of Department of Read This Posty »

Hi -- I like the idea of the site, thanks for listening. My pet peeves: 1.) Soma isn't resident-friendly. Most businesses aren't open on the weekends, and there isn't a 24 hour drugstore. There aren't always walkable sidewalks, particularly on the small streets like Natoma, Jessie, Clementina, Tehama, Minna, etc. The homeless certainly deserve our respect and assistance, but many of the ones in Soma are clearly violent and mentally unbalanced; I'd like to see more help for them, potentially getting them off the street. 2.) Not enough express busses, particularly the 38. Not enough N-judah trains, at any hour. 3.) Not enough Read This Posty »

Washington, DC may not be the most popular city in the US right now, but we could certainly take a page or two from it in terms of design and transit: 1. This city needs more green! As a planned city, DC is full of tiny parks, huge trees and green spaces; even downtown it feels like you're in the suburbs (and space is not the issue - DC is only about 10 sq miles). Here in SF, those of us who don't have a lovely view of the ocean or the headlands could use a lot more trees and green Read This Posty »

My pet peeve is that this city keeps trying to bill itself as "green" and "progressive" yet does nothing to earn the title. Gavin Newsom seems to think being green means planting ficus in the Tenderloin.  We need to be MUCH more progressive about global warming and traffic congestion by implementing congestion tolls, raising parking fares, making MUNI actually viable, and forget about requiring MUNI to "fund itself."  The subway needs to go way past Chinatown into North Beach, a neighborhood that crawls with drunk drivers every night.   And how about making Alioto-Pier's token gesture of making it illegal Read This Posty »