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Clean up San Francisco's streets, tourist industry pleads
[SF Chronicle] As president of S.F. Travel, the city’s visitors bureau, Joe D’Alessandro’s job is to promote San Francisco. You’d think he’d be hyping the city’s gorgeous vistas, top-notch restaurants and glorious museums.Instead, he’s getting honest. Sure, San Francisco has great facets worthy of postcards and travel books, but it also has a worsening underbelly that D’Alessandro says he can no longer gloss over. People injecting themselves with drugs in broad daylight, their dirty needles and other garbage strewn on the sidewalks. Tent camps. Human feces. The threatening behavior of some people who appear either mentally ill or high. Petty theft. "The streets are filthy. There’s trash everywhere. It’s disgusting," D’Alessandro said, adding he’s traveled the world, and San Francisco stands out for the wrong reasons. "I’ve never seen any other city like this ‐ the homelessness, dirty streets, drug use on the streets, smash-and-grabs. "How can it be?" he continued. "How can it have gotten to this point?" Remember, this is the man whose job is to glorify San Francisco, which tells you something about how far the city has sunk. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-18 |
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