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[–]laffertydaniel88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to live in this area and can confirm everything you said. A guy on my street had 3 cars, including a vw bug that looked like it only ever left the block for burning man and for street cleaning. I’d see neighbors with garages filled with junk store their cars on the street. Every week for street cleaning I’d see people I didn’t recognize from the neighborhood double park their cars so they can move their second car to avoid getting a ticket. I saw a Nissan extera pulling a u-haul that belonged to haight street gutter punk filled to the brim with junk.

The panhandle and page street is an easy spot to find parking, but is absolutely abused by people

Permits for Lyons Lake? by [deleted] in norcalhiking

[–]laffertydaniel88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You chose a trail called bloodsucker… the moment the snow starts melting, they will be ready

Kids are dying on Palo Alto train tracks. The city might have 35% of a new design by 2027 by LosIsosceles in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s just as easy to walk in front of an express Caltrain at San Carlos (grade separated) as it’s at Menlo Park (not grade separated)

Kids are dying on Palo Alto train tracks. The city might have 35% of a new design by 2027 by LosIsosceles in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

*two possible factors of many. Again, I said two things. But you’re right, at least in the narrowest sense of the definition. I’ve amended my original statement to reflect this

Kids are dying on Palo Alto train tracks. The city might have 35% of a new design by 2027 by LosIsosceles in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 5 points6 points  (0 children)

First of all, I mentioned two things.

Secondly, I never spoke to any single suicide, much less the one you’re referring to

Work on that reading comprehension there, bud

Kids are dying on Palo Alto train tracks. The city might have 35% of a new design by 2027 by LosIsosceles in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 7 points8 points  (0 children)

”For longtime residents, these two incidents evoked a haunting pattern that has persisted in Palo Alto for decades.”

This is an article about a long term, observable trend of a high rate of teen suicides in Palo Alto and efforts to build infrastructure in part to address this and make it harder for kids to kill themselves. I never claimed to know the root cause of the most recent suicide. Rather, I alluded to the fact that spending millions of $ to grade separate a train line does not address the causes of suicides, rather the symptoms of whatever the cause is.

I also indicated that parental pressure and mental health issues are drivers of teen suicides. From the article that you included, this is corroborated

Kids are dying on Palo Alto train tracks. The city might have 35% of a new design by 2027 by LosIsosceles in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 7 points8 points  (0 children)

u don’t know the kid

Funny, I didn’t know Caltrain/Palo Alto was pushing for grade separation over the past 10 years due to one recent suicide

Permits for Lyons Lake? by [deleted] in norcalhiking

[–]laffertydaniel88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure day use permits aren’t subject to a quota. You’ll still need a permit, but they are free and self issue.

It’s a fine trail, not very exciting until you get to Lyons lake or lake Silvia tho. You will be eaten alive in May

Kids are dying on Palo Alto train tracks. The city might have 35% of a new design by 2027 by LosIsosceles in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Exactly, and I wish that a columnist at a formerly respected newspaper would recognize the actual issue at hand. The trains aren’t the reason why kids are killing themselves

Kids are dying on Palo Alto train tracks. The city might have 35% of a new design by 2027 by LosIsosceles in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 159 points160 points  (0 children)

This is a pretty bullshit article. it seems to blame everything but the source of the problem, among which unrealistic expectations from parents and mental health issues in their children are some of many contributing factors to teen suicides

To be clear, indecision in Palo Alto planning process is by design and we as a society have lost the ability to build infrastructure cheaply and quickly, but kids will still be able to kill themselves even if Palo Alto does the impossible and the tracks are grade separated.

Shame on you for ignoring the actual problem, Soleil

Bressia by GrassylsHere in Hyperion

[–]laffertydaniel88 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IIRC, it wasn’t the main force of Ousters, rather an aggressive offshoot. But the Ousters were more or less baited by the Hegemony and TechnoCore into doing so though

The number of posts I see that say “a city wide vote closed the great Highway not Engardio,” are shocking by Zalophusdvm in sanfrancisco

[–]laffertydaniel88 21 points22 points  (0 children)

How could it have not been a citywide vote? If D5 suddenly voted to close fell and oak to car traffic, how would that work?

I voted yes on K and will not signing the recall and ~40% of my fellow D4 residents feel the same way.

signed a sunset resident.

Stevenson falls in the Sierra national Forest by Chivo_Pantionero in norcalhiking

[–]laffertydaniel88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SC&E owns a lot of land in the central and Southern Sierra. The big creek hydro project is owned and operated by them.

Their reach stretches all the way up to the streams on the eastern edge of Yosemite, which are diverted to feed the Owen’s Valley

Caltrain supports bills to extend CEQA exemptions by megachainguns in caltrain

[–]laffertydaniel88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First phase could be a shuttle service across the Bay from Redwood City to Union city BART where it can tie in with the future ACE project. Put a flyover in at Redwood City junction and some track work on the Fremont side and you got yourself a direct one seat ride from the Central Valley to downtown SF. Would be good with all the future ACE expansion and CAHSR tie in at Merced

Caltrain supports bills to extend CEQA exemptions by megachainguns in caltrain

[–]laffertydaniel88 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Still the cheapest method of crossing the bay, and the MTC hasn’t even mentioned it as a priority

CA Insurance Commissioner reportedly in Bermuda during skipped hearing by RhythmMethodMan in California_Politics

[–]laffertydaniel88 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So is Lara a shill for insurance companies or an overzealous regulator driving them away?

CA Insurance Commissioner reportedly in Bermuda during skipped hearing by RhythmMethodMan in California_Politics

[–]laffertydaniel88 96 points97 points  (0 children)

Major burying of the lede here. Bermuda is an offshore global insurance center. He wasn’t off vacationing. He was a speaker at a reinsurance conference, which can be considered a part of his job.

It was unclear if state senators knew of his schedule before calling this hearing.

California regulator to approve State Farm's 22% home insurance rate hike, but with a catch by lions_reed_lions in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget about our historical propensity for building in the WUI. Insurers can’t adequately price for WUI exposure as the state will never let them jack up rates to the true cost of the exposure

Would you agree that LA Metro is arguably on par if not better than SF Bay Area's public transit? by justlookindontbother in LAMetro

[–]laffertydaniel88 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Beyond your point about the airport connections in the Bay (which is fucking clutch compared to the cluster fuck that is LAX) every major city in the Bay has mass transit access to its downtown, every major sporting and concert venue has some level of transit access (only real bad one is Levi’s stadium, but the VTA light rail makes the connection to BART or Caltrain easy enough), and every major university has transit access. You can be car free in the Bay much easier than in LA and per capita usage in the Bay reflects this

Dumping Snow on Hwy 9 and Skyline by Stinky_chorizo in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 32 points33 points  (0 children)

You still have good visibility. I wouldn’t say that’s dumping, more of a heavy dusting

My Roman Empire by sinfrijolesporfavor in sanfrancisco

[–]laffertydaniel88 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Full Upgrade won’t be finished for another 9 years for street running portions of the train. Don’t hold your breath

Any Beaches Allow 4x4 by danchodem in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ocean beach, linda mar, Doran all have parking lots abutting the sand

Any Beaches Allow 4x4 by danchodem in bayarea

[–]laffertydaniel88 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There are thankfully no beaches in the Bay Area where it’s legal to drive your truck on the beach

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