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Written by Michael Thériault on 2024-12-15 at 18:12

My wife and I are on the train back from Sacramento, and, looking at her phone a moment ago she wondered out loud, What’s Pete Buttigieg going to do next? I said, Well Jeff Tumlin is stepping down at Muni.

Suddenly it seemed not an awful idea

[#]SanFrancisco #SFMuni #SFMTA

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Written by pmonks (330ppm) on 2024-12-15 at 18:14

@mtheriaultsf Tbf a taxidermy raccoon could do a better job than Tumlin did.

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Written by Michael Thériault on 2024-12-15 at 18:15

@pmonks Now, now, respect for the departed.

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Written by pmonks (330ppm) on 2024-12-15 at 18:16

@mtheriaultsf Yeah good point. I’m sorry taxidermy raccoon; please forgive me. 😢

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Written by Bob Horowitz on 2024-12-15 at 18:53

@pmonks @mtheriaultsf

Ooof.

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Written by pmonks (330ppm) on 2024-12-15 at 18:55

@BobHorowitz @mtheriaultsf I will never not get STEAMED about Tumlin’s absolute BS handling of Twin Peaks, post-COVID.

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Written by Bob Horowitz on 2024-12-15 at 19:11

@pmonks @mtheriaultsf You mean closing the roads so only very fit people could get up there (by foot or bicycle)? Or the year-long surveys and hem-hawing that followed?

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Written by pmonks (330ppm) on 2024-12-15 at 19:19

@BobHorowitz @mtheriaultsf Mostly the closing of Twin Peaks Blvd to humans, post COVID. In 2021 SFMTA conducted a community survey with several options for closing all or parts of the road to humans, and one of those options was the clear winner (a “compromise” option between humans and vehicles). He then overruled his own survey and SFMTA staff recommendations to invent an entirely new option that didn’t exist on the survey, and proposed that to the BoS for a vote. That option is what we have now: 75% of the roadway up there is now lost to human use.

It was bleedingly obvious that this invented option mostly benefited the various foreign tour bus companies that operate up there. I’m generally skeptical of conspiracy theories about corruption in SF, but this result did make me wonder if he was on the take, given the shambolic process and seemingly predetermined outcome he unilaterally rammed through.

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Written by Bob Horowitz on 2024-12-15 at 19:31

@pmonks @mtheriaultsf

I agree ,100%.

I remember at the time thinking I (and half of the people I knew) might never get up there again if car access was kept off the table.

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Written by pmonks (330ppm) on 2024-12-15 at 19:52

@BobHorowitz @mtheriaultsf Keeping personal vehicles and monster tour buses out was my preferred option tbh, with one of the Muni bus lines (perhaps the 37) extended from the Burnett entrance up to Christmas Tree Point and back, to provide motorised access for those unable to get up there under their own steam. The winning option on the survey was similar in that it preserved the southern approach for humans, while allowing vehicles (any vehicles) to use the (shorter) northern approach.

But no, Tumlin and his bus tour company cronies don’t like humans, so they invented a new pro-vehicle option after the survey results were in, and rammed that through the BoS despite concerted community opposition (this is also why Melgar and Mandelman will never get my support, fwiw).

So here we are again, with an incredible, unique parkland area in the city ruined by jackasses in cars and pollution-spewing monster tour buses, driving all over the vast majority of it.

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