{"id":1448,"date":"2012-06-13T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2012-06-13T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:21:04","slug":"Mid-Market-Muni-Meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/Mid-Market-Muni-Meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid Market Muni Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The great Mid market revitalization<\/a> continues between 5th and 6th. This is across the street from Zendesk and Zoost<\/a> and Benchmark Capital just moved in at the Warfield<\/a> and the upcoming City Place<\/a> is bound to revitalize the area for sure this time. SFCITI<\/a> will probably have an app soon which will turn Mid Market into the ultimate avenue of docile contentment. Twitter just moved in 3 blocks up the street and would like to meet it’s new neighbors<\/a> and “understand where the brightest hopes and toughest challenges are rooted”<\/p>\n

Well welcome to the neighborhood Twitter, via The Tens<\/a> and SF Citizen<\/a>, Uptown Almanac<\/a> and SFist<\/a>(in the arts and entertainment section (!)) and all over Twitter<\/a> and Tumblr<\/a> and I’d Rather Die blog<\/a> and reddit<\/a><\/p>\n

update – Market Street Railway – the official blog of this streetcar itself has now posted a story on this incident<\/a><\/p>\n

As we mentioned in our last post, Market Street Railway is committed to working with SFMTA to improve safety for F-line streetcars, operators, and passengers along the line, especially in mid-Market. We\u2019re also committed to helping the Mayor\u2019s economic revitalization plans for the area by showcasing the F-line streetcars as an efficient, attractive transit connection to attractions in both directions.<\/p>\n

But as anyone knows who has tried to walk mid-Market Street in broad daylight, let alone nighttime, scenes like this have to become less common for the area to reach the goals the mayor has set for it.<\/p>\n

We admit it: we were too PC (politically correct) in our earlier post, where we lumped in folks like this with those immersed in their own cellphone or earbud worlds as \u201cpeople who are disoriented or distracted in one way or another.\u201d The cellphone and earbud crowd can indeed endanger themselves, and vehicles, by obliviously stepping into traffic when they shouldn\u2019t, but that\u2019s nothing compared to people who seemingly have no idea where they are or what they\u2019re doing. And in this video, we have two such, fighting each other, with a jerk tagger on top of it. All in broad daylight on Market Street. <\/p>\n

Seeing this video reminded me of a personal experience a few weeks ago that I had chosen to ignore: walking to a meeting at SFMTA headquarters and being verbally threatened out of nowhere by a man at Tenth and Market who followed me up the street screaming the most personal kinds of profanities and waving his fists. Again, not an uncommon sight on mid-Market.<\/p>\n

If this sort of thing isn\u2019t somehow addressed, the current realities of mid-Market may be its future realities, no matter how much effort property owners and the Mayor\u2019s Office make.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, after rolling around the blogs all day, it’s now an actual<\/em> copyrighted news item<\/a> ooooh<\/p>\n

Bonus: getting some quality graffiti time in the middle of it<\/p>\n