Week 13 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

March 10, 2025 Attention SFMTA: See permit violations from this past weekend here: Friday March 7, 2025 Saturday March 8, 2025 | see traffic on 500 block of Hayes Again, we hereby demand that permit No. 1091787 be revoked immediately. If not revoked, please provide a reason why there is zero enforcement and zero intention to uphold the validity of this permit. Thank you.

Week 10 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

February 17, 2025 Attention SFMTA: We hereby demand that permit No. 1091787 be revoked immediately. See permit violations for this past weekend:Friday February 14, 2025 Saturday February 15, 2025 | watch a party bus help themselves to the street Permit violations include but not limited to: Since we are now on the 10th turn on this thread, it’s paramount to question: why hasn’t this permit been revoked? Thank you.

SFMTA 21 Bus Suspension

Attention SFMTA: We encourage you to maintain the 21 Hayes bus route. This is a life line for our neighborhood and a critical/essential route for our neighbors. Stopping its service would be to the detriment of those who rely on this bus line daily. Hayes Valley is already burdened with too much traffic and needs serious traffic mitigation — for us, focus on “transit first”  means having reliable bus services. The Hayes Street closure which has further worsened traffic on …

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Week 8 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

January 27, 2025 Attention SFMTA: See permit violations for this past weekend documented here: Friday January 24, 2025 | see traffic on Laguna Saturday January 25, 2025 | see traffic congestion in surrounding area Again, we hereby demand that permit No. 1091787 be revoked immediately. Permit violations include but not limited to: *General advertising is prohibited and needs to cease. The solicitation for event hosts by the permit holder circumvents the normal event permitting process which includes neighborhood notification and …

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SFMTA ISCOTT Public Hearing for Head West Market 2025

January 22, 2025 Good morning ISCOTT and SFMTA: We feel we’ve made significant strides over the last couple of years to drive home the critical issues with the Head West event in Hayes Valley and prefer to be hopeful that this year the tide may turn. We view the sanctioned promotion of outside retail vendors as a direct threat on our small business operators. This event is run by a for profit business at our neighborhood expense. Each time this …

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