A 90-day ban on street vending on Mission Street went into effect on Monday, spurring vendors to gather outside the 24th Street Mission BART station to protest.
Susana Rojas, executive director of neighborhood organization Calle 24, told SFGATE that vendors are concerned that the ban's timing will hurt them, since the holiday season is when they typically make the most money. Vendors also worry that the ban will fail to adequately address the violent and crowded conditions that they have faced, she said. Vendors had previously asked for the ban to be postponed until the new year.
On the stretch of Mission Street near the station, some vendors taped handwritten signs in their car windows: "I would be vending, but the supervisor has banned me!" one read. A couple of vendors made sales near the BART station in spite of the ban.
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