Disability Perspective on MTA's DPT: A Calculus of Blood and $$$$$$$$$$?Bob Plantholdbyline‚ Oct. 16‚ 2006One of the busiest routes in SF, Howard St., will be blocked off to ALL vehicular traffic for nearly a week in October. The block of Howard between 3rd St. and 4th St. will be blocked off for nearly eight days, while the northern 3 lanes of Howard between 4th and 5th St. will ALSO be blocked off for almost a week. What's happening? Is it a major street re-surfacing, a utility replacement, a campout by MacWorld groupies, or even the pits of hell expected to open up to disgorge their demons? Nope. Not even these occasional disruptions can cause ONE ENTIRE BLOCK of busy downtown / SOMA traffic to be shut down for DAYS and DAYS and Days... from the evening of Thursday, 19 October through the morning of Saturday, 28 October. It's the Silicon Valley powerhouse Oracle that has the "juice" -- and of course the bucks--to get MTA's DPT to authorize the signs and the police and the parking control officers and all other city departments involved in this decision to go along with this temporary privatization of SF's streets. |