Concepts in the Paradox » writing http://markballew.com/blog The writing of Mark Ballew Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:53:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Quoted in SFgate again! http://markballew.com/blog/2007/09/19/quoted-in-sfgate-again/ http://markballew.com/blog/2007/09/19/quoted-in-sfgate-again/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:22:21 +0000 MarkBallew http://markballew.com/blog/2007/09/19/quoted-in-sfgate-again/ This time I’m quoted at the top of the page!

READERS’ PLATFORM: Transbay Terminal

The Transbay Terminal is a symbol to the world of what San Francisco was – a city with transit at heart where a working-class person could get to work on a train or a bus in a safe and timely manner. What we are telling the world now is, go get in your car, pay too much for gas and insurance, but don’t take a bus or a train – that’s for incontinent bums. We gave up on the Transbay center when we lifted the rails decades ago and submitted to car hegemony. A new Transbay transit center is likely to be more of the same. Shiny and new for a few years, then urine-soaked after budget cuts and parking garages. Who is going to pay a whopping $260 per square foot for office space with no parking in this city anyway?

- Mark Ballew, 29, San Francisco

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