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Davinski: You’ve got to let the rest of us in on where you get your drugs! You say:

763 residential units have been added in Hayword,(sic)

And then you say:

Hopefully, more city planners will copy this creative approach San Fransisco is taking to improve urban life.

Since Hayward is a city on the other side of the bay from San Francisco, (Not “Frisco” or “Friso") how in the hell can a San Francisco city planner take credit for what some other city has done?

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Is this not exactly what was done on the Northeast seaboard(NJ,NY,CONN,RI) in the ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s,,,,ah, hell, to right now? Rail links from “bedroom” communities to major commercial centers? And it FAILED!!!

Just close your eyes, click your heels together, and keep chanting “reality is not real, reality is not real” and you may actually convince yourself.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Since Hayward is a city on the other side of the bay from San Francisco, (Not “Frisco” or “Friso") how in the hell can a San Francisco city planner take credit for what some other city has done?

Proof-- I stand corrected. As you can see, I was a little discombobulated. A 16 hour shift followed by a 1 hour visit to the dentist is my excuse. Not one of my better posts. However, it is good to see some creative urban planning wherever the heck it is.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Bob Dylan

Call it the Bay Area - it’s vague enough to include Berserkly !

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

D,

. However, it is good to see some creative urban planning wherever the heck it is.

Try reading(as in comprehending) 2H9’s comment above.

“To love is not to stare steadfast at one another...it is to look forward, in the same direction.”
Saint-Exupéry

Try reading(as in comprehending) 2H9’s comment above.

I see and comprehend his remarks. However, I disagree. The problems with pollution in major metropolitan areas needs to be addressed. The rate of childhood asthma alone is staggering. This is good sound planning. There are still many communities that were designed like 2hotel9 mentioned that are working well today. I live in one.

Just because it is news from California-and the bay area- you automatically think negative. Drop the cynicism. We need to make changes in our way of dealing in the 21st century. Of course if you think there is no pollution, then you have your head in the sand, which is worse than having it in the smog that surrouds many of our cities.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Bob Dylan

Davinski
Are all the peons laboring to provide the food and goods for these suburban conglomerations or anthills supposed to take rail out to the fields?
Shall we just blow up LA and begin anew?

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Shall we just blow up LA and begin anew?
Sparkie Arbuckle on April 23, 2008 at 10:04 pm

You can if you want. LA is on the bottom of my list.
Just leave San Fransisco alone; it is a great city. Very Progressive with a strong union movement and an anti-war attitude. You ought to check it out, Sparkie.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Bob Dylan

Davinski
I’ve been there. I know an architect who lives off the park… some hippy farmers about and hour upstate… and some more about 5 hours upstate.
I have no desire to live in SF. The taxes and cost of living are outrageous. What’s more, I have no desire to live in urban California, period. I am more partial to dirt roads and being able to to whatever I goddamn please outside my dwelling. Whenever I am done learning, I am getting the F out of the city. Living in one makes you stupid and lazy. Its got to be a proven fact.
No, I need trees and toil. Don’t get me wrong, I know a lot of artists and drunks… I just don’t want to live near them.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Sanfran needs nuked off the face of the planet. Its a shity shit hole in a shity shit hole state. What ya think about that, environazi?

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2H9,

I think we should ship davinski off to Frisco, which is a small town in Texas.  Don’t figure they’d have much use for him there…

As for San Francisco (or The City, as the denizens of Northern California refer to it), it’s marginally more sane than Berkeley or Santa Cruz, but all three suffer from severe cases of excretiacephalitas.

Folks commute to The City from as par away as Gilroy and Sacramento.  Given the difficulty and expense of parking in The City (and the bridges which are major choke points) they have little real choice in the matter.  High speed rail, which has long been promised, is currently ransomed by local politicians dissatisfied with the proposed routes.

A pox on all their houses.

Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

I see and comprehend his remarks. However, I disagree. The problems with pollution in major metropolitan areas needs to be addressed. The rate of childhood asthma alone is staggering. This is good sound planning. There are still many communities that were designed like 2hotel9 mentioned that are working well today. I live in one.

The railway system has little impact on whether or not the community “works”. It didn’t reduce pollution, and no one uses it. It costs a lot of money but rakes in no profits. That’s called a failure.

For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of my country.

The best and easiest thing that San Francisco could do to help their city is to drop their “rent control”.

But they won’t do that because they’re stupid liberals.

Oh, I’m sorry. They’re “very Progressive with a strong union movement” stupid liberals.

Wake me up when San Francisco becomes reality based. Okay? Then we can talk about complicated ideas such as urban planning.