by ELENI BALAKRISHNAN : missionlocal – excerpt
Four additional businesses have joined the legal battle opposing the Valencia Street center bike lane and filed claims against the city, their attorney, Jim Quadra, announced at a press conference today.
The businesses — Consumer Auto Body Inc., Tunisian restaurant Gola, Vietnamese fusion restaurant Chic n’ Time, and the closed Phoenix Irish Bar — join three businesses that filed claims in February, contending that the street changes that accompanied the new center bike lane have damaged their businesses by diverting traffic and limiting parking.
“There should be several more [claims] coming,” Quadra said, speaking at the closed music venue Amado’s on Thursday morning. At least one other business owner who has not yet filed a claim also appeared in solidarity.
The city denied the claims filed by Rossi Art Gallery, Mediterranean restaurant Yasmin and Amado’s, he added, and those business owners are now considering a lawsuit.
A claim is a request for damages or compensation. If the recipient of the claim denies it, the complainant can then file a formal lawsuit to be heard in court…(more)
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Do they ever stop? They are broke and they still insist on waging war against the public. What does it take to re-orient the SFMTA to taking care of their Muni riders and dropping all their other programs until they are out of debt and have restored the Muni system to the high level it once was?
Meter Madness 
Cannot file a claim against SFMTA for street designs and fake safety improvements. They snuck that provision in a ballot measure for more funding that was supposedly a measure to solve the homeless crises some years back. Suckers!
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