On June 16, Supervisor Connie Chan delivered a press release criticizing the proposed Geary Boulevard Improvement Project. The press release expressed concerns that the project “would remove 30% of parking on the corridor,” dampening the recovery of small businesses that were hurt by the pandemic.
This is not true.
The proposed center lanes will affect the more than 30 percent of the elderly and disabled in the area. To get to bus boarding zones they’ll have to cross the busy and dangerous Geary Boulevard.
A lawsuit seeking to put the brakes on the Geary Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit (Geary-BRT) plan has come to the end of the road, after a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled in the City’s favor.
Whether it’s the Geary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), or the L Taraval streetcar line, the public
and local merchants are ignored as being minor disruptions to the agency’s self-proclaimed higher ideals.
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