Letters to the Editor: State must reform water rights system
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Visitors explore the shoreline of Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park, California, on Thurs. July 28, 2016. Mountain Tunnel, a key piece of the Hetch Hetchy water system is at risk of collapse, so this summer, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is preparing to repair the 19-mile-long tunnel just outside of Yosemite in a steep, hard-to-access wilderness area.Michael Macor/The Chronicle
People need fish and clean water, not carpools. It is time to reform our water rights system. Recent articles in this paper have discussed the drought and proposals for actions such as trucking hatchery salmon. Discussions of real solutions, such as reassessing water rights for large farms, which use 80% of the state’s water but export crops, are not discussed.
The public deserves real answers from several city agencies and BART about the proposed phase 1 Better Market Street project, which would tear up Market Street, between Fifth and Eighth streets, for as long as two to four years to replace water, sewer, and rail lines. This would suspend service for the popular F Line historic streetcars, which will negatively impact Castro-area businesses already struggling to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic. As we reported last week, streetcar service would be replaced with buses, a less attractive experience that won t entice tourists with rides from Fisherman s Wharf to the Castro.
On April 26, the Community Advisory Committee for Better Market Street held a virtual meeting it has been discussing the project for years and heard updated reports from San Francisco Public Works, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Estimated to cost $80 million, the phase 1 project already h
Letters to the Editor: Police shootings will not be tolerated
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Protesters outside the Mission Police Station in San Francisco honor the lives of police shooting victims Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Roger Allen in Daly City.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The Chronicle
The author is on the mark with “Police killings of Black people are lynchings” (Letters, April 17). The Black killings going on in our country are outrageous, and the author is right to call it contemporary lynchings. I have learned there is an Emmett Till Antilynching Act that got passed in the House recently, and has been stalled in the Senate by Sen. Rand Paul. Let us all join together, to get this senator removed from Congress, and send a big message across our country, that these acts by police are not tolerated. We are democracy for all people and our future depends on us working together as one people. So be it.
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The story of the creation of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Streetwise - Birth of a Bridge
by Frank Dunnigan Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
From the mid-1840s, when Captain John Fremont declared California’s independence from Mexico, local land speculators were eyeing the hills of today s Marin County, and wondering just how the area could be linked to the community of Yerba Buena, as San Francisco was then known for both public and personal benefit. A bridge was the ideal solution, but the swift currents and the depth of the waters at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, along with other factors, presented insurmountable challenges for decades.
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