News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:
- Tech Search Party raised $12,000 for local schools [TSP]
- Zuckerberg chatted up Snapchat founder in Noe Valley before creating Poke [Business Insider]
- Bastian Holze is starting an a cappella choir and needs your talent [Bastian Holze]
- All the cars cleared off 24th St immediately for the fire as if they all belonged to merchant employees. Does Bob Roddick Know? [Hunter Walk]
- "Nemo has really taken its toll on us here in San Francisco" [@kevinmonty]
- John Elias Karlin created the way the world looks at a keypad. He died this week. [NYT]
Why does the fact that the cars disappeared suggest that they were owned by merchant employees? Isn't it just as likely that they were owned by people shopping in the area?
ReplyDeleteThis blog's obvious vendetta against the noe valley merchants is getting more than a bit tedious.
Rather than actually talking about parking issues it would rather smear the merchants as hypocrites. It is too bad that it can't be more supportive of people trying to make a living in the community.
These are all meters which suggest short term parking and the drivers probably pretty near their automobiles.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience as a former 24th Street merchant, most merchants park on the side streets to (a)avoid having to pay for and refill meters all day and (b)leave the meters for customers. Think about it..why would you want to take up all the parking and make it more difficult for people to get to your shop? Furthermore, it was a very quiet time of the day when the fire broke out and there may have been plenty of empty spaces in the first place. I imagine most people were running errands and when they saw the fire decided to book it out of there. I would. Who wants to risk their car getting damaged, or having to wait a long time to move it because the street is blocked by emergency vehicles?
ReplyDeleteThe auto shop employees park on the side streets. Of course, they rotate their customers cars onto 24th, but shhhh....
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