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I will own a corner store, and it will have a boring name like corner stores do. If my corner store is in New York, it will be called something like 346 Franklin Deli, LLC. If my corner store in is California, it will be called something like Laurel Liquors. 1/

@SusanDReynolds @stefanoscalia @grok @alankennywong @grok if everyone in San Francisco owned a car, how many more cars would there be in the city?

So… everyone owns cars pretty much. 😆 And Lux Lucas doesn’t have a clue what it’s like to have to care for aging parents or drive his kids around to 4 different afterschool activities in one day. He will though, and karma is a bitch. Then again, he probably won’t live here by then.

I used the Great Highway to get my father to the VA Hospital. But carpetbaggers like Lucas Lux don’t care what families who have been here for decades want. They only care about keeping their little strip of asphalt between a beach and a park. ⁦@alankennywong⁩

@SelenaC10705 @DBay22 @MartyFrisco What time were you driving? The link says that work only occurs between 7am and 3pm

@tagsavage @DBay22 @MartyFrisco It looks like all phases are paused. From what I can see, there’s no work happening on 19th Ave. I didn’t mention it earlier to everyone because I thought it might be due to the holidays, but now it appears the project was postponed.

I drove on 19th Ave multiple times since December and noticed, no construction, no lane changes, and no closure. Only signs there, but no work.  I looked it up today and learned that the 19th Ave project has been postponed to summer 2026. The initial plan was for construction to start in May 2025, now it’s been pushed back more than a year. According to Caltrans, the project will now take about 18 months, instead of the originally proposed 27 months. Our advocacy works. The "original delay" from May 2025 to October 2025, conveniently keeps traffic “normal,” which indirectly benefits Joel Engardio’s anti-recall special election in September 2025 by allowing claims of no traffic impact.  I hope this isn’t a pattern. dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-…

@SelenaC10705 @DBay22 @MartyFrisco But that link says "Phase 1: Parking strip repaving is currently underway." Are all phases postponed, or is phase 1 underway?

@DBay22 @MartyFrisco I shared a link to the Caltrans website in my post, please click on it. It’s clear, but here’s the link again. dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-…

@SelenaC10705 @repeatingbeats This is all data from data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/…, the same source that Alan Wong is using. I pulled the data into a dashboard where you can parse it in lots of different ways. Enjoy. collision-charts-sf.replit.app I'm not asking "why," just asking what it was like back then.

@tagsavage @repeatingbeats First, please cite your source. A graph without context means nothing. What is this graph telling us, and where is it from? Second, are you seriously asking why?

At the town hall on 1/7/2026, Lucas Lux’s moderator claimed Friends of Sunset Dunes “loves data.” Then explain this: The Upper Great Highway permanently closed on March 14, 2025. So why is FOSD asking people to compare traffic and accident data from years before the permanent closure? Before March 14, 2025, the Great Highway operated under the compromise and served 14,000+ daily commuters. Did they forget that? The honest comparison is before vs. after the permanent closure. Why compare earlier years instead? Because it fits Lucas Lux’s narrative. Those years include the pandemic, when everything changed. SFUSD fully resumed in-person learning on August 16, 2021. More workers returned to in-person work in 2022–2023. By 2024, life was finally returning to normal, and crashes had stabilized at 35, the lowest since 2022. Then the Great Highway was permanently closed in March 2025. After 14,000+ commuters were denied access to the Great Highway, reported crashes in D4 rose from 35 to 50. Those aren’t just numbers, they represent real people and real lives. The permanent closure of the Great Highway is a public safety issue, even if the privileged refuse to see it. Some feel entitled to open space, unwilling to use existing walkways on the Great Highway or walk a few extra steps to Ocean Beach or Golden Gate Park, while 14,000+ commuters are left scrambling to get to work on time, take kids to school, or make critical medical appointments. And Lucas Lux ignores another reality. Forcing cars onto longer, slower routes means more idling, more fuel burned, and more pollution, far worse than allowing commuters to use a road that already existed. Stripping data of context isn’t “loving data.” It’s manipulation. The cost? Does FOSD or “Ocean Beach Park” care about cost? Absolutely not, unless it suits their agenda. How much is Sunset Dunes? A lot more than the compromise.

@SelenaC10705 @repeatingbeats As a long-time resident of D4, maybe you can describe what it was like during 2005–2015 or so, when there were about 50% more collisions than in recent years. What was the district like back then?

@tagsavage @repeatingbeats Thank you for confirming that you don’t know anything about D4.

@SelenaC10705 @repeatingbeats I'd like to entertain your hypothesis that the rate of injuries is based on “More workers returned to in-person work in 2022–2023. By 2024, life was finally returning to normal,” but those developments are true city-wide. And the city-wide numbers are flat over those years.

@tagsavage @repeatingbeats "Citywide" is different from D4. 😮‍💨

@repeatingbeats @SelenaC10705 Yup! Great breakdown of the issue! Though I've seen a few people who aren't familiar with data analysis get confused about what it's explaining, alas.

@AT415287548 Alan conveniently ignored data from the previous two "compromise" years, which saw more collisions than either 2024 or 2025.

Yes Friends of Sunset Dunes, if Supervisor Wong’s ballot measure to reopen the Great Highway to cars on weekdays WILL mean yanking out the skate park which you were advised by the judge not to install. The anecdotal garbage being offered by proponents of Sunset Dunes is being brilliantly offset by Supervisor Wong’s factual presentation of dramatic increases in accidents on roads that have absorbed the 14,000 cars that used to take the Great Highway. And every proponent acting like there isn’t 1400 acres of existing, budgeted, adjacent, accessible space to recreate…

@AndrewSchmidtFC The typesetter in me still bothers to use an en dash for date ranges.

Weird way to find out I’m AI.

@MLNow I'd wait for the final map here. In 2022, opposition to Prop. I increased in westside precincts as more ballots came in.

Finally, Prop. K, the measure to close the Upper Great Highway to cars, is winning. The breakdown of votes is noteworthy: It’s almost entirely geographical. The west side (where the Great Highway is located) voted against it, while the eastern half of the city voted for it.

It’s been a tumultuous night, both locally & nationally. While early results are in for San Francisco races, there are likely nearly some 180,000 votes still outstanding that could swing some contests. Still, here is what we know 🧵 missionlocal.org/2024/11/electi…

@StephenMPinto There's no plan to close this section of Great Highway. Can't tell if you're scaremongering, or if you just can't read a map. Either way, not great for a candidate for supervisor.

thread: I was recently made aware of what appears to be a future plan for the continued closure of the Great Highway beyond Lincoln Way, north to Fulton Street. It's not part of Prop K, however, it would be the next phase if Prop K was to pass. I found this in the SFMTA's Bike...

@b_sonneborn @Lukejosef_ @MHurabiell I happened to do so this weekend, and it took, like, eight minutes from Noriega and 40-somethingth to Fulton and Great Highway? Maybe less? It was pretty incidental. I also drove to the Salvation Army on Geary via Park Presidio and it took 15 minutes. Anyway!

Saturday on the Great Highway. Very few people here. This is weather here about 70 to 80% of the time. Can anyone tell me why this would need to be closed during the week? Why would we make life harder for 20,000 people per day for a handful of people who might use it?

@brightpathD @LuigiCPA I had no idea that McDonald's ended the war in Vietnam.

@LuigiCPA It's a tremendous insult to the historical importance of that particular spot which was near the birth of The Summer of Love in 1967, which sparked the end to the Viet Nam War, the birth of the environmental movement led by Greenpeace and the higher consciousness movement.

Stanyan and Haight This is what is planned for Lower Great Highway, producing mega developers fees $$$$$

@MHurabiell @Nextransit It's a two-mile-long area, you can't really capture it in a single photo. If you were in Hellman Hollow in Golden Gate Park and no one was there, would you also assume the Music Concourse is empty? Check out the area around Noriega next time.

@Nextransit Sure sure, keep trying to justify your position. Yes, there are people out there, no one said there weren't. This is a SATURDAY & it is sparse. Weekdays = emptier. Why close it when no one will be using it? What is the ulterior motive? Bc as is it doesn't make sense.

@repmyinjury @usrbinseanharan @openthegreathwy If only there was some kind of voting mechanism in place so that you and other San Francisco citizens would have a guaranteed way of having your voice heard. Ah well.

@usrbinseanharan @openthegreathwy I’m against deceptive campaign slogans and believe that people who rely on the great highway deserve to have their voices heard. Also, I am a San Francisco citizen. What’s your skin in the game?

Somewhat lateral, but this is the kind of thing I deeply don't miss from New York.

Copywriting: It’s not for everybody

@jackietgregory My problem is that my shirts aged beautifully while I aged clumsily

The thing I miss most my from slender and humid days is wearing filmy gray heathered t-shirts. They draped from my bones rather than clinging to my flab.