Letters to the Editor

Editor: A neutered, fed feral cat colony lives in a vacant lot on 23rd Avenue, between Anza and Balboa streets. I personally scoop cat poop to keep everything clean. Many of us in the neighborhood enjoy watching the cats, which were abandoned when the owners died or left the neighborhood.

Please be aware that some neighbors have been systematically trapping the feral cats and carting them down to Animal Care and Control (ACC). Animal Care and Control is not allowing us to retrieve them.

Please call ACC at 554-6364 and make your voice heard. I cannot accomplish saving these cats without your help.
Deborah Gilman

Editor: I read your series of articles about BRT on Geary with great interest. You have covered the potential impacts to merchants along the corridor with understanding, posing real questions which need to be answered.

Another area which I feel can be greatly impacted is the neighborhood streets that run parallel to Geary and front small neighborhoods, which are quiet peaceful areas that are mostly middle-class single-family homes (a rarity which needs to be preserved). As you stated with the merchants, the residents in these areas know nothing about this plan.

Another interesting item is Supervisor Jake McGoldrick's pushing Better Neighborhoods Plus (Ordinance #050601) in the same manner as BRT with lack of notification, improper procedure and lack of constituent participation to the point where one member of the supervisors sponsoring the ordinance withdrew his support. This will tie in with BRT to demolish the neighborhoods as we know them.
Barbara Austin

Editor: Almost 50 percent of the evening traffic that crosses the Golden Gate Bridge comes through the MacArthur tunnel from the Richmond District. Just retrofit Doyle Drive like the Golden Gate Bridge!

We should also consider: concrete gets stronger until it reaches 100 years; we should not disturb the cemetery; we should not destroy historical buildings; and the bridge cannot handle more traffic, so why increase the width of the approaches?
Merv Silberberg