November 2012Letters to the EditorEditor, I enjoyed last month’s article about the southeastern waterfront (“Essence of Southeastern Waterfront Captured in Website Project”), but one statement seems misleading. The author mentions a “series of proposals intended to make [Islais Creek] more transit accessible. . .” What proposals are those? As the co-chair of CC Puede, a community organization that’s been working since 2005 to make the Cesar Chavez Street corridor safer and more inviting, I’ve personally locked horns with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency a number of times regarding the lack of public transit down Cesar Chavez Street. Other CC Puede members have had similar experiences. Even though a new SFMTA bus yard is being constructed on Cesar Chavez at Islais Creek, the agency continues to resist suggestions that it provide transit service for its own workers. The current Muni options – Number 19-Polk and T-Third – all travel north-south, and none east-west. The plans for an attractive waterfront park along Islais Creek will be of little use to the many residents of the Mission, Bernal Heights, and points west if they’re unable to get there without hauling downtown and transferring to the T-Third. A Muni shuttle between the 24th Street BART station and the 22nd Street Caltrain station that ran down Cesar Chavez would be of great use to workers and other travelers who now face a “you can’t get there from here” situation. CC Puede has brought up this idea at numerous meetings, in letters, and in face-to-face conversations with SFMTA officials. No one seems to care that public transportation to Islais Creek from the west doesn’t exist. I hope the creek’s revitalization and the opening of the Muni yard will prompt SFMTA to reconsider, and let us take the bus. Fran Taylor Co-chair, CC Puede
Much appreciation for the high praise for To Chris Marker, An Unsent Letter (“Neighborhood Filmmakers at 35th Mill Valley Film Festival,” October). Please give my sincere thanks to Lori Higa and to all the staff at the View. As an independent filmmaker with no advertising budget, these reviews are our life line to the public. Thank you for your support. Emiko Omori From the other Hill, Bernal. |
This Month's StoriesSchool District Denies K-8 School at International Studies Academy Campus Kaiser Permanente Floats Revised Plans for Proposed Development City Budget Discussed at Town Hall Meeting Mariposa-Utah Street Neighborhood Association Challenges Development San Francisco Board of Supervisors Hosts Hearing on MTA Parking Plans Smashburger Replaces Blockbuster at Potrero Center on 16th Street Third Street Police Station to be Rented Hill Resident Helps LGBT Seniors SF Shines Brings Façade Improvements to Bayview As Neighborhood Transforms, Bayview-Hunters Point Still Plagued By Trash Bayview Professor Goes to Harvard Dogpatch Wine Bar Gets Trivial Thieves Repeatedly Steal “Safe and Clean Zone” Fence at McKinley Square Frameline37 Film Festival Features Potrero Hill Filmmakers The French Set-up Shop in Potrero Two New Officers Keep the Beat On-going FeaturesPublisher's View: Middle School
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