Comments on: San Francisco’s Getting Sued For Letting Tech Buses Use Muni Stops

By: peternatural

peternatural — Sun, 04 May 2014 16:00:00 +0000

I don’t see why the shuttles need to use Muni stops, which is illegal. If some unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat at the SFMTA decided not to enforce the law, there’s your problem right there, which is easily and unilaterally fixed. (The shuttle companies can always rent space legally for their stops).

In any case, even if you got rid of the shuttles entirely, it would barely make a dent in the housing crisis. Where’s the environmental impact study for highway 101? Shut that monstrosity down — then you’ll see some results 😉

By: olhorna

olhorna — Sat, 03 May 2014 02:59:00 +0000

Good to know, thanks!

By: Forthright

Forthright — Fri, 02 May 2014 23:54:00 +0000

“Violations” charges don’t always mean that someone has been “harmed”

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 02 May 2014 17:02:00 +0000

How about the number of cars it takes off the street? You’re telling me one bus is more dangerous to cyclists than the 100 cars it takes off the road?

By: mike3k

mike3k — Fri, 02 May 2014 17:00:00 +0000

Fuck the SEIU. Don’t they have anything better to do?

By: mz

mz — Thu, 01 May 2014 23:51:00 +0000

Even if you insist the CEQA has to apply to this program, why does the scope of an environmental review has to include anything other than the direct impact of the buses? There’s no reason rents and housing costs have to be involved. Should putting in a new traffic light require an analysis of its potential impact on a butterfly in China?

And where’s the environmental review of the UCSF shuttles, Academy of Art University buses, or other in-town employee shuttles for companies like Levi’s and Williams-Sonoma? Where is the outrage about them?

I get that there are very real issues in this city about affordability and the housing market, but all this outrage about shuttle buses just seems to distract from these actual problems. Vomiting on a bus just makes you look like an idiot and isn’t conducive to a real discussion about what kind of city we want to live in and how to make that a reality.

By: olhorna

olhorna — Thu, 01 May 2014 22:56:00 +0000

Don’t you have to be able to claim that harm was caused to you in order to sue?