Listen to what they had to say back when BART was being built:

BART will be especially effective in destroying neighborhoods," warned the weekly Bay Guardian, which also called the system "the ultimate money drain." But wait, there's more: "It's designed to handle peak-hour commuter traffic, which occurs only three hours per day. ... The other 8,160 hours per year much of its equipment will lie idle and unproductive."

SFBG also opposed the Transamerica Pyramid, Yerba Buena Gardens, redevelopment of Candlestick Park, AT&T Park, Rincon Hill, Central Subway, Hunters Point Redevelopment and on and on and on. The only development that meets with SFBG approval is that which enriches the Non Profit Inc bottom line.

he might have won. instead he ran for sheriff. look how well that worked out for "progressives."

now they are dying off, as they have for a while, and the few in office serve themselves at the public's expense. if you keep jacking up the rents, prevent rental housing from being built (again a tired progressive policy) and you keep on beating up on a creative, young, idealistic entrepreneurial class that came here in part due to the idea you could live somewhere that's Not 100% Mainstream, but who are then castigated as the "1%" for simply having a job and working for a living, well guess what?

YOU LOSE!

The 60s and 70s are done. Get over it. at least one hardcore lefty is going to lose, and the dealmakers and the moneychangers and the pimps for WilLee and Rose will continue to raid city hall. and there'll be no more SFBG to whine about it as it's now a chain paper.

BYE!

Hey Tim, maybe San Francisco has woken up to your foolish and short-sighted brand of so-called Progressivism. Blocking the building of housing causes home prices to go up! Maybe you should go take an Econ 101 course and then you can argue intelligently about the topic.

The rest of The City seems to have woken up, too. The NIMBY brigade is down to three, that is a great thing.

You and your crowd are the ones responsible for driving the working class out of San Francisco and it is up to the real liberals in town to shut you down.

Over the last few days, Weiner's PR team has been hard at work getting as much positive press about the Weiner in the media in an attempt to bury the story about him getting his anti-historic preservation bill through the Board of Supervisors, that will amongst other things make it very very difficult now to get the Gay Historic Corridor approved for The Folsom District. He knows it is going to look bad to his very gay district when people find out that instead of working on behalf of his constituents to preserve what is left of the iconic Folsom, he has been working with the developers and moneyed elite to raze the area for expensive condos for non-San Franciscans working in the dot.com sector to move in and displace residents who have lived here for decades.

Why is he doing this? No one can be sure but clearly he is getting something out of the deal, probably financial backing. So he is motivated by greed and homophobic. Great- a homophobic self loathing gay man in Harvey Milk's old seat. So to hide this from the public, almost daily for the last week, his office has been releasing to the press cute little stories about how he is pro-dog, pro-tamale lady , pro -trees, etc. But if you really want to see what he is all about, slow down next time you drive past Dolores and Market and realize that in that spot Weiner and the other corrupt cronies in City Hall pushed through a nine story condo complex with only .5 parking spaces per unit. Then to make matters worse, they have gotten Whole Foods to go into the bottom floor and this un-needed store will only have about 25 parking spaces available to it. If this scenario is not bad enough, unbelievably, one lane of traffic will be removed from that block in either direction, to widen the sidewalks. In case you have never noticed the sidewalks on Dolores have always been wide enough to drive two cars on them side by side. Apparently, Whole Foods, who is run by a Republican man in Texas, wants sidewalk seating.

Weiner and company says that they want to get people out of their cars. Thats a joke, building a Whole Foods, encourages people to drive to the neighborhood, It will block traffic coming up Duboce and block Market Street while people wait to turn onto the one lane left on Dolores for a valet to park their SUV in one of the 25 spaces. They will have to do that because there won't be much parking left in the neighborhood now. If they really wanted to get people out of cars, why not remove the asphalt over the existing street car tracks on Dolores and run Street Cars again up that once beautiful Street as it was originally designed? Scott Weiner needs to be exposed for what he really is.

A tool for the developers.