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In an effort to appear more quality of life-ish, the intersection at Eddy and Taylor received a makeover. (Taylor and Ellis got the same design yesterday too.) This Tenderloin spot, best known for being a crime magnet where you never want to be after the sun goes down or up, got new designs on their crosswalks.
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Fuck.
White lines? Really?
That is going to make it at least 120% more difficult to find my sweet rocks of cocaine when I accidentally drop them on the ground when reaching for my Glock.
Stupid SF.
Remind anyone else of the paving at Embarcadero Center?
Yep.
I'm sure the pimps, drug dealers, heroin junkies and whacked out crack heads will appreciate your finger painting efforts, Mayor McCheese. Or at least make them dizzy.
It looks like an effort by PG&E to confuse more TL frequenters by making everything look like a manhole cover that could burst into flames at any moment.
I am always amazed by the amount of our in the open drug dealing that occurs on Eddy St. THE DAMN TENDERLOIN POLICE STATION IS ON EDDY! Hell, there was a shooting around the blocking from the police station. It's so obvious that SFPD and the city do their best to contain drug activity in the Tenderloin. Bravo Mr Newsome, Bravo.
That photo angle makes me think I'm looking at the Joker's hideout on the old 1960's Batman tv show.
And I thought the crosswalks on Castro were bad.
I can't wait to see people stumble and fall when they walk across THESE, tripping on who-knows-what. Or someone running across them screaming that they're moving, or some shit.
Question: City that has no money, why?
Can I still reply even if I have a non-cynical comment?
I think it looks good and people will be able to identify the crosswalk long after the "normal" white borders are worn away.
excellent, excellent point. i really like them too.
maybe it's so that the people wobbling around on heroin don't veer out of the crosswalks?
I live on that block and I give it one week until human feces covers up that pretty white paint.
oh and now I get a nice healthy bump bump bump when I ride my bicycle over it so that's cool :P
It's part of the beautification of 6th street project. They're planting streets, renovating buildings and opening art galleries. pfft.
Adam, whatever. You've lived on that corner maybe, what...? 3 years? And in the process all you've done is exploit it. My people, the Tenderloin crowd, we despise you. Instead of trying to do good in the neighborhood which YOU PICKED to live in, you capitalize on it. With your lame website (critical mass! terrible!) that had a "benefit" that allowed you to get a swankier camera. If this neighborhood- which is older than you-offended you so much, why don't you just move the hell out of it? Oh, that's right, you can't afford to. Just like the other hundreds of hard working people who have to live here. You're an asshole and a jerk and I wish you'd never moved here. Seriously, your ignorance is nauseating.
"My people"? Who made them yours?
Get your story straight. That's all I have to say.
Of course it is, because you literally have nothing else to say than bullshit. You're a complainer, simple as that. Congrats.
I like it.
At least it's not red faux brick. Well, maybe if people get shot in the crosswalk it will look that way at which time I will rescind my like.
I don't think it's a bad thing to make things prettier. People are more likely to take pride in a street that looks nice. I'm not saying it's going to lower the crime rate, but I still think it's worth doing.
that's no way to perpetuate a vicious cycle of neglect.
Pretty!
In the near future, this block will be gentrified. Crime will be way down, rents will be way up. The same people bitching and moaning about any efforts whatsoever to improve a neighborhood will be bitching and moaning about how gentrification ruined the neighborhood's feel.
Bingo.
Do they still do chalk drawings around dead bodies? If so, I hope no one gets killed on the crosswalk. That would be confusing!