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This headline and screed typifies how nonsensical greater SF is; "mysterious startup" juxtaposed with "quiet street". Kalanick is a fantastic scapegoat, evil bi
by ccamrobertson 5y ago
This headline and screed typifies how nonsensical greater SF is; "mysterious startup" juxtaposed with "quiet street". Kalanick is a fantastic scapegoat, evil billionaire hell bent on screwing over "quiet street".
The author brazenly quotes the word "create" in reference to jobs as if the entire operation somehow won't generate economic activity.
A quick look on Google maps at the former state of the building reveals not something cheery, as indicated by "covered in murals and cartoons", but instead blighted where artful murals are juxtaposed with random spray painting over windows and doors along with odd couches, tires and other trash strewn around the building.
The real litmus test is Zillow; surrounded by largely million dollar homes it becomes super apparent that NIMBY is indeed the right term for the author and those opposed to an all but abandoned building being used to create jobs.
The building is positioned between a standard street and significant thoroughfare, both of which have two full lanes, room for parking and painted center lines AND both of which have bike lanes or indicators. Adeline has substantial parking which presumably any business on that site would enjoy (although apparently those in the million dollar homes should be entitled to all of it?).
This piece is better for NextDoor (although unsurprisingly SFGate et al have become great mouth pieces to amplify NIMBYs like this).
- vangelis 5y agoDelivery drivers are climate arsonists and should be treated as such. They should be bicycling. I'm against anything that increases the amount of car traffic.
- tbrockman 5y agoHow do you figure? Assuming the alternative is all those consumers individually visiting stores (a good amount of which would likely be driving there to avoid carrying their purchases while in transit or other reasons), it seems like bypassing the extra traffic and emissions with one person delivering packages in an optimized route is much less awful.
- dopidopHN 5y agoI do visit store and I do drive to it. But after a regular grocery run I can cook something along the line of 30 meals. In my personal exemple it takes 30 less driving around. And I’m not even trying. I just go grocery shopping every other week.
- jjeaff 5y agoDelivery drivers also deliver groceries.
- systemsignal 5y agoHow many bags do you get, sounds like you need like 10 for that
- vangelis 5y agoCargo bicycle and cook at home?
- BizarroLand 5y agoA smarter proposition would be to petition for the increase in the speed and quality of public transportation. Many people would be happy to utilize that if it were a viable option for them, but for most cities it is simply not a strong enough or reliable enough replacement for transportation.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoIncreasing the speed and quality of public transportation would quickly see diminishing returns, and significantly eat into their climate advantage.
- BizarroLand 5y agoIts easy to sit on a moral high horse but it doesn't help things. If you do not show a path from where people are now to where you want them to be, then you only have yourself to blame for no one making it there. Telling people who commute 45 miles to work (because they're priced out of any home or apartment closer to their job) that they should bicycle to work to help save the planet is futile. Petitioning for an improvement in public transportation that could help take cars off of the road and increase availability of transportation for everyone is a step in the right direction.