Lost in the reporting on parking and the supposed 'controversy' about adding dedicated transit lanes on Ocean Avenue, nearby City College of San Francisco is planning a 200,000-square-foot parking structure
Laws and regulations on what? The area is already served quite well by transit, and has proposals coming down the line for more and better - see article. And as another commenter pointed out, the college actually has long wait lists for many classes - if some students head elsewhere, that is probably better for everyone all around.
And this isn’t calling someone out for failing to recycle their beer cans. It is a $50 million, taxpayer funded, permanent structure. It won’t do anything to improve students lives for several years. And long term, the best thing that can happen to it is that it gets demolished when transit becomes indisputibly the better option, and the expected case is that it keeps inducing demand for decades to come.
I’m all for creating systematic change. But if all you do is wait and wait and wait for the legislature to pass the perfect laws and regulations to solve everything and make everyone happy and also give you a dick-sucking unicorn, then nothing will ever change. Incremental change that happens bit by bit, one block at a time, gives us something we can actually accomplish right now, which is the only time when anything ever gets accomplished. And also creates more spaces, more examples for people to see, of how the world can be different and their lives could be better, which is what gives you the political capital to write better laws.
Laws and regulations on what? The area is already served quite well by transit, and has proposals coming down the line for more and better - see article. And as another commenter pointed out, the college actually has long wait lists for many classes - if some students head elsewhere, that is probably better for everyone all around.
And this isn’t calling someone out for failing to recycle their beer cans. It is a $50 million, taxpayer funded, permanent structure. It won’t do anything to improve students lives for several years. And long term, the best thing that can happen to it is that it gets demolished when transit becomes indisputibly the better option, and the expected case is that it keeps inducing demand for decades to come.
I’m all for creating systematic change. But if all you do is wait and wait and wait for the legislature to pass the perfect laws and regulations to solve everything and make everyone happy and also give you a dick-sucking unicorn, then nothing will ever change. Incremental change that happens bit by bit, one block at a time, gives us something we can actually accomplish right now, which is the only time when anything ever gets accomplished. And also creates more spaces, more examples for people to see, of how the world can be different and their lives could be better, which is what gives you the political capital to write better laws.