Guess I just find downtown SF too depressing lately. For one thing, it is too crowded...too many people in too small a space, etc. Hopefully my fourteen days in Thailand soon will help in unwinding and getting my act together. This is my favorite wintertime vacation place but nine hour flights are getting very tiresome, at least in coach. First class or business class might be better but who the hell can afford those fares?
New projects of interest here in the city are the extension of the T-line Muni Metro line into the Central Subway, the completion of the remodeling of the Metreon with the opening of Target later this year and closer to home will be Trader Joe's and CVS Pharmacy's move into the old Cala Foods building at Hyde and California. BTW, that Central Subway project is in its earliest phases of construction but tunneling may actually begin by the end of the year.
Then there is the new stadium for the San Francisco 49ers to be built in Santa Clara. SF sure screwed up on that one especially with so much land available at Hunter's Point including access to the Bay for which ferry service could be launched for games as it is for the SF Giants at AT&T Park. Also, with the new Muni T-line running down Third Street to a point fairly close, it could have been extended into Hunter's Point for access to and from the games.
Sometimes I think that officials do not look at the big picture here. Are district elections the reason with each supervisor involved with his or her own fiefdom. If so, let us go back to citywide elections ASAP.
Oh, this is too much to think of early Sunday morning.
BFN
Sunday, February 26, 2012
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Fiefdom, now that's a word I can wrap my dwindling brain cells around and re-familiarize (re-energize?) myself with.... It's kind of like IQW, unique initials which I hardly ever come across but they instantly bring to mind a similarly unique person who used to be a member of my personal fiefdom (there's that word again!) Your words are important to me not as a constituent but as a friend and I sheepishly admit to being a very bad one at that. You've never been out of memory and when I came upon this blog it was good to see your last comment was fairly recent. I hope Thailand treated you well, as they always seem to do, and I'm glad you continue to visit there. Anyway, Irv., this may be too much for you to digest on a Sunday evening--whenever you read this--just as your last comment in your blog was "too much to think of early Sunday morning." I concur, Sundays should always be lazy days. Nappy time for my aged bones.
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