Al

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• Commented on BART Considering Plan To Raise Fares By 5.2% Next Year
  WTF? Increasing parking fees "penalizes" people who drive to the station? So what does that make people who take transit?...
• Commented on BART Considering Plan To Raise Fares By 5.2% Next Year
  WTF? Increasing parking fees "penalizes" people who drive to the station? So what does that make people who take transit?...
• Commented on Ferry Building Gets $110,000 Retro Departure Time Sign
  I've always liked flip signs-- looks like I'm not the only one....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: How Do I Get My Landlord To Fix The Elevator?
  In 2011, a fire caused by an old elevator motor destroyed the Sequoia Building at 2441 Haste St in Berkeley. It's a serious issue....
• Commented on Rally Supports Legislation For Bathroom Grab Bars, Telephone Jacks At SROs
  It seems dumb to create a law mandating telephone jacks at a time when landline use is dropping....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: My Landlord's Threatening To Evict Me Because I Have A Live-In Caregiver
  In response to your last paragraph: free-market wankers don't like paying $42,000 a year for a fourth floor walkup. They just think your alternative is worse. It sucks if your family has to illegally share a house in order to...
• Commented on Supervisor (And Victim) Mar Calls For Hearing On SF's Bike Theft Trend
  Bikes do have a serial number stamped on the frame, and bike owners are advised to record it to make it easier to recover if stolen....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: I Think My Subtenant Is Crazy, How Can I Get Her Out?
  This is the sort of law you figure is written by professional landlords, to make life miserable for anyone who dares compete with them....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: I Think My Subtenant Is Crazy, How Can I Get Her Out?
  This is the sort of law you figure is written by professional landlords, to make life miserable for anyone who dares compete with them....
• Commented on Board Of Supervisors Committee Approves New Rules For Apartment-Dwelling Smokers
  Nice as it sounds, what's missing from this proposal is any sort of enforcement mechanism. What happens when you move into an apartment building that's non-smoking... and your neighbor starts smoking?...
• Commented on Golden State Warriors Announce Plan To Hire Local Construction Workers
  Is it just me, or is this exactly the sort of policy which drives up housing prices in SF for no particularly good reason? Consider: you're willing to pay $x for an apartment. Then it turns out the apartment comes...
• Commented on Golden State Warriors Announce Plan To Hire Local Construction Workers
  Is it just me, or is this exactly the sort of policy which drives up housing prices in SF for no particularly good reason? Consider: you're willing to pay $x for an apartment. Then it turns out the apartment comes...
• Commented on $100 Parking, Extra BART, Muni's Baseball Shuttle: How To Get To Tonight's SF Giants Game
  Meters take credit cards now, so no need for change. If you find one, you won the lottery....
• Commented on $100 Parking, Extra BART, Muni's Baseball Shuttle: How To Get To Tonight's SF Giants Game
  Meters take credit cards now, so no need for change. If you find one, you won the lottery....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Am I Still The Master Tenant If I Moved Out Of My Apartment For Six Years?
  Regardless of what happened previously, doesn't the fact that new roommate writes a contract with guy make guy the master tenant? It seems crazy for the law to create a situation where people live together while in a state of...
• Commented on San Francisco Prepares For Recology To Raise Garbage Rates
  The thought process behind the rule is somewhat understandable: everyone produces some garbage, and if you let people avoid paying for service they would be tempted to illegally dump, use city bins, annoy their neighbors, etc. You can get two...
• Commented on Cyclist Who Struck And Killed Woman Gets Probation
  That's more than most drivers get. Hopefully, this is the start of stricter enforcement....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: I Think My Master Tenant Is Scamming Me
  "Why would anyone want to live like that?" Because they need a place to live, and an official apartment is too expensive. "Master tenants who sublet their entire units, never have a pot to piss in if you have to...
• Commented on BART Wants Your Feedback On Plan To Expand Late-Night Service For 34 Minutes At Cost Of $6808 Per Rider
  The $6808 figure is highly misleading. The cost is per year while the riders added are per week. More accurate would be $6808/52 = $131 per rider. Which is still bad, granted. It would take about 1000 additional riders to...
• Commented on Dry Ice, Parking Trickery, Poop In The Recycling: Concerns Raised Over This Year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
  I counted the racks on JFK on Sunday, and there were 112 rows, and all but 8 or so were three barricades wide. They were also more tightly packed than in the video. So it looks like they got the...
• Commented on Asian Art Museum Unveils New Logo, Approach
  One advantage: ∀ exists in Unicode, and so can easily be used in email and on the web. Looks like ∀.com is already taken, though....
• Commented on Companies Slow To Take "Twitter Tax Break" To Move To Mid-Market
  Serious question: how much rent are the landlords asking? When the city promised a million dollar tax cut, did the owners of the buildings up the rent by a half a million dollars, saying "you'll still save half a million"?...
• Commented on Pedestrian Killed By Crane Truck At Second And Townsend Identified
  I would very much like to see a followup to this. Was the driver ever charged with anything?...
• Commented on SF Supe Proposes Hearing On Why Families Leave SF
  Well, presumably they're being replaced by others, so it's not a net loss. Apart from the expense, though, there are some other things. Safety, school assignment. There are savings, too, like not having to get every teenager a car and...
• Commented on SF Considering Renting Street Parking Spots To Car Sharing Companies (Poll)
  Had my first carsharing experience. Came to the intersection-- cars nowhere to be found. As it happened, they were halfway down the block, up a driveway into a private parking lot, and about a hundred feet in. So, yeah, it...
• Commented on Despite Growing Unrest, Nat Ford's Golden Parachute Is All But Assured
  I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to hire someone from within. They may know better than anyone what needs to be done and what can be done. If it were up to me I'd hire the writer of...
• Commented on Potrero del Sol Park Unveils Mural In Attempt To End Persistent Graffiti
  Indeed. In America we also speak and read Spanish, and many other languages....
• Commented on Video of Crazed Cabbie Indicative of Greater Disquiet Among SF Taxi Drivers
  The obvious solution is to pass on the credit card surcharge to the passenger, just like gas stations do....
• Commented on Poll: Are Disabled Parking Placards Over Or Under Used in SF?
  I'm not a fan of the $300 proposal, for the reasons listed by Josh. On the other hand, it's a bit ridiculous that a placard entitles one to park not only without limit, but for free, all day. It seems...
• Commented on Twitter Announces It Has Signed Lease In Mid-Market Building
  The real winner of this tax break is the owner of that building. Without the tax break, Twitter (or someone else) would have been happy to rent there, but wouldn't have been willing to pay as much. Give a big...