One more thing. When is Cortland street going to be repaved. I thought Mission street was horrible but Cortland street pavement is dangerous. Elise Hyndman Read This Posty »

As more people purchase from online retail, more delivery trucks will clog our streets making it impossible for traffic to flow normally. Road rage will surely follow and so will horn blowing. I suggest that truck owners be fined heavily if they don't pull into the available "deliveries only" parking spaces...and that they're license be suspended until they pay their fines. The worst offenders are FEDX and UPS but certainly the delivery trucks along the commercial areas like 16th St - Mission Street etc. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

I noticed yesterday for the first time ever that at the base of the two lampposts that mark the corners of the fence in front of the old mint building on 5th St. at Mission St. there are swastika designs in the original metalwork. It seems likely to me that these were put in place before the swastika took on the meaning that we associate with it today, but I think it's really inappropriate to leave them there. There were (presumably) swastikas on all four sides of the base of each of the two street lamps. It appears as though Read This Posty »

4th & Mission has a lot of pedestrian traffic, yet the traffic signals do not offer an all-way-walk. There are usually a number of cars waiting to turn right from Mission onto 4th St, and many people "in the know" resort to doing an illegal right turn around the other cars turning right, because otherwise one green might only allow a few cars to turn right. The funny thing is that the next two intersections down 4th, at Howard and Folsom streets, both have all-way-walk cycles in their signals, even though they have typically much lower pedestrian loads. (Although at Howard Read This Posty »