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Failed T Line is 1st Stage; Central Subway Part Way to Chinatown is Next Horror

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If you have not had enough of the disaster in capitalist "planning" with the failed T Train line, you should know the horror show has just begun, courtesy millions of our hard-earned tax dollars. The next stage is the Central Subway EXTENDING the T line from 4th & King to Clay and Stockton, with no connection to the Market Street subway!
If you have not had enough of the disaster in capitalist "planning" with the failed T Train line, you should know the horror show has just begun, courtesy millions of our hard-earned tax dollars. The next stage is the Central Subway EXTENDING the T line from 4th & King to Clay and Stockton, with no connection to the Market Street subway!

The preliminary announcement is on the SF Municipal Railway website at:
http://www.sfmuni.com/cms/mproj/indxmuproj.htm

This little handwarming boondoggle, which like the rest of the T line, exists to make the construction contractor friends of the Democratic Party machine at City Hall richer at taxpayer expense, will not solve the problem of overcrowding on the 30 Stockton line from Market to Columbus as (1) it does not connect to the Market Street subway and (2) it ends at the beginning of Chinatown, namely Clay Street, instead of going to Columbus. The overcrowding on the 30 Stockton is from Market and Kearny to Columbus and Stockton going north and from Columbus and Stockton to Market and 4th Street going south. The digging for this Central Subway is sure to disrupt the current Market Street underground and above ground transportation, and all of Union Square shopping, should they actually construct this completely unnecessary theft of our tax dollars. All that is needed on Stockton is more buses.

This must be an issue in the current year's mayor's race and we all expect to have at least a Green Party candidate for mayor. The current anti-rent control, anti public schools (Newsom promotes "charter schools" on his website although the City does not run the school district), election-frauding idiot, "mayor" Gavin Newsom, cannot even guarantee decent, timely, affordable public transportation in San Francisco, a city that is very suited to public transportation and cannot tolerate any more cars. The Democratic Party promoted the re-building of the DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park instead of moving it downtown or to the Fisherman's Wharf area as 80% of the visitors are tourists, and the new building is a monstrosity with a hideous tower. Neither the art museum nor the aquarium/science museum should be in the park and the park should be closed on the weekends. Parks are for people, not for cars. Cars are global warming machines and must be scarce while public transportation and bicycles should be common.
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