^^^ This. If you’re carpooling your kids and their friends to soccer / hockey / gymnastic / etc., you need a Suburban with luggage space behind the third row for all the backpacks and stuff.

Castro was a well-liked Cabinet member under Obama and has shown that he can win big elections in Texas. He probably doesn’t have the name recognition to win the general, but he’d make a fantastic Vice President. I get the sense that the DNC knows this and is supportive of him.

Oh, many economists have. Just look on PubMed.

SFMTA should indeed build more subways, and they should connect to BART at Glen Park, 24th, and 16th. The stupid-as-fuck bus lanes on Geary and Van Ness should have been light rail of the type used on the 3rd St. corridor.

Read the other lines in that table: 38% commute by car alone. 11% carpool, which is also commuting in a car. There is also 17.0% in the “other” category, which includes taking a taxi to work.

What I’m telling you is that my commute is reflective of the commute choices of many other people. Did you know that half of San Francisco residents still commute to work by car?  

I definitely need a car to do my actual job, which frequently takes me to the Peninsula and the East Bay. But the commute to my main office in the FiDi takes 45-60 minutes via public transit and 15-30 via car. So by suggesting that I give up my car (or Uber / Lyft), you’re really saying that I should subtract 30-60…

All Phaetons will have their air suspensions at half-mast, in mourning.

Yes, but that’s certainly not my response. I would just like serious investment in light rail, subways, and pedestrian bridges before we start subtracting lanes from existing streets.

Well, $50k buys a lot of *water-cooled* Porsche, but not very much air-cooled.

It’s priced at right about what a 911SC with the wide-body option would go for, so you get the engine for free. An inspection will tell you quickly if the engine swap was professionally done, or a hack job.

As far as I can tell from my unhappy forays to the community hearings, the New Left Urbanists and the NIMBYs are all the same policy coalition. The young ones want all market-rate housing construction to stop and want to force me to ride a bike to work. The old ones want all market-rate housing construction to stop…

Municipal employees explicitly are preferred in the lottery rules. Those that are “connected” tend to be the ones that can keep applying over and over again. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/upshot/these-95-apartments-promised-affordable-rent-in-san-francisco-then-6580-people-applied.html?module=inline

That’s true enough, but irrelevant to the choices that we’re making today. Current residents are dealing with the current built environment, and the Transit First people are altering it in ways that make things worse.

Either way, this battle was already lost about three years ago when Porsche turbocharged the base-model 911 and Macan, but continued to call the highest-power versions “Turbo.” In the Macan the Turbo even has the same damn engine as the S and GTS version, just with more boost.

I think it’s a bicycle seat. So ... not not a sex toy?

Wait, did that Tesla owner really say that? Did you get a picture of this “hood scoop”?

Here in SF, attempts by the New Left Urbanists to take out parking spaces along 24th St. between Van Ness and Potrero, and replace them with rental bike racks, were deemed racist by the rabidly Latinx group Calle 24. Calle 24's point was that Hispanic dudes do all the trades work around here, and the plumbers /…

Yes, 100%. Most cities are delighted to have economic growth; they grow the infrastructure and allow private investment in more housing stock to accommodate. San Francisco just suppresses housing construction and subtracts roads. I guess the hope is that people just get miserable enough to move their companies to…

A well-functioning city government can advance more than one policy objective at one time.