Junkies Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station

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Critical mbgaxyz · 2018-07 · on “SF Supervisors Move to Ban Workplace Cafeterias”

Maybe office workers prefer not to have to run the gauntlet of feces and hypodermic needles, just to buy a sandwich. "San Francisco Man Steps on Hydodermic Needle, Demands Action" [LINK] "Junkies Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station" [this video] "SF Crime, Squalor Scares Away $40 Million Medical Convention" [LINK] SF Mayor: 'There's More Feces ... Than I've Ever Seen' [LINK]

Critical closeparen · 2018-07 · on “Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies”

While I was a BART commuter, I walked a gauntlet of slumped-over hard drug users, sprawled-out homeless people, human urine, and feces every day. Fortunately, I've only seen people drop their pants and take a shit on the sidewalk in front of me twice. Missed a random stabbing on the stairwell into my station by about 5 minutes. This is Civic Center Station, which serves Twitter, Uber, and Square. No amount of tech worker foot traffic is going to clean up an area if the government isn't willing to police it. Video doesn't even show the worst part, but helps to illustrate: [this video]

Critical throwawaysea · 2020-10 · on “San Francisco’s political leadership has squandered a fortune (2019)”

I do agree that the political leadership has squandered a fortune, but if there is a root cause, it ultimately comes down to the voters. It is the voters who repeatedly vote for the same leaders who implement the same policies emphasizing the same values with the same outcomes over and over. And when confronted with those problems, the response from voters is to shame dissenting voices for a lack of empathy instead of recognizing the reality around them and applying common sense. SF shows problems on almost every facet of city governance from businesses unable to set up shop ( [LINK] ) to feces on the streets ( [LINK] ) to BART subway stations that are open drug markets ( [this video] ) to misman

Critical dehrmann · 2021-05 · on “Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19”

For an article that doesn't focus on SF, that's an odd headline, and not a big surprise for anyone who's seen the Civic Center Bart station: [this video] SF is an oddity because of its homeless problem, open-air drug market, not being too concerned with either, but being incredibly concerned over covid, so this outcome isn't surprising.