What is wrong with this city? San Fran allows naked people to roam the city. It holds parades, dedicated to sexual perversions—the city need a sing only those 21 or over allowed to enter—like a porno site on the Internet.
They have a housing shortage, so the voters say no to hundreds of homes on the waterfront, which would also have provided large sums of property taxes. They hate cars so much, they spent billions for BART and the Muni—only to find out the unions own the system and the systems work only when the unions allow. The paychecks come from BART, but the workers report to the unions.
Now, some what to paint crosswalks in “rainbow” colors. Just as silly if they wanted the cross walks in red, white and blue—or are they admitting San Fran is circus?
“A first-time visitor to San Francisco’s Castro district might think a bomb packed with rainbow paraphernalia had just exploded – light poles are draped with splashy banners, neon signs glow in restaurants, and a jumbo-sized flag flies above a public plaza.
Now the bowmageddon is primed to become complete, with a plan to bring in cheery new crosswalks striped with all the colors of the visible spectrum. If it happens, the Castro will become the only place in America where an honest-to-god meteorological rainbow could actually find camouflage.”
CA News & Views
San Francisco Ponders Rainbow-Colored Crosswalks
John Metcalfe, Atlantic Cities, 3/6/14
A first-time visitor to San Francisco’s Castro district might think a bomb packed with rainbow paraphernalia had just exploded – light poles are draped with splashy banners, neon signs glow in restaurants, and a jumbo-sized flag flies above a public plaza.
Now the bowmageddon is primed to become complete, with a plan to bring in cheery new crosswalks striped with all the colors of the visible spectrum. If it happens, the Castro will become the only place in America where an honest-to-god meteorological rainbow could actually find camouflage.
The community voted a year ago to install some form of decorative crosswalks, to be funded by the Castro Community Benefit District, as part of a sidewalk-widening project. In addition to the prismatic crossings, voters could opt for other, less fantastic, designs, with one patterned like the foyer in the historic Castro Theater and the other mimicking catenary wires that hang above the streets. Public voting to choose a single winning design ended this week, and the top choice and location of the new crosswalks should be announced soon.
You would think that San Francisco, a city that originated the rainbow flag, would’ve done this years ago. But in fact, it was beat out by Vancouver (see the above photo), which installed rainbow crossings back in 2013 (and before that West Hollywood – thanks to commenter Martin for pointing that out). And perhaps surprisingly to people who don’t live in the neighborhood and know it’s provincial politics, not everybody is happy about these peacock-colored pathways. At the The Castro Biscuit, commenters have vented their spleen over the district’s alleged transformation into a gaudy spectacle. “Please let’s not turn the Castro into a gay theme park,” says one. “Bandanas really? I’m just going to be thinking hanky code every time I walk over it,” quips another.
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