Wow. An early morning trek through the Golden Gate Park / Panhandle / Upper Haight / Ignatius Heights / NoPA / EaPA / Western Addition / Alamo Square areas reveals very little garbage on public land the day after the 99th Annual Bay to Breakers 2010 footrace. (Don’t miss the 2010 Pre-Game Report, 15 Photos from a 15-Minute Walk Through the Scrum, more photos, the Thin Blue Line of SFPD actually consfiscating aluminum beer cans, and, of course, the Results and Photos of the Winners for 2010.)
The cold dawn of day reveals a big improvement over 2009′s aftermath, in’nt? I mean, the Panhandle is almost the way it should be – almost nothing but crimson and clover, over and over.
That’s not to say you couldn’t tell that a BtoB just went down. Oh no. You can still see broken bottles of Champale and deflated pink flamingo(e)s on private land. See?
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But this isn’t the City’s concern, it’s more the concern of some small-time millionaire landowners, right?
Anyway, this AM looks nothing like these previously cited Morning After scenes from 2009. So that’s a surprise.
And hey, speaking of 2009, is it possible that there were fewer port-a-potties in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle than last year? I’m thinking that there were less than four dozen bathrooms in place yesterday. Was that enough? Was there some failure in planning? Or maybe this is some kind of strategery?
Starting to question the advisability of registering for Bay to Breakers. $55 gets you an RFID (or whatever) chip so’s you can get an official time. All right, but if that’s not worth $55 to you, well, maybe you should save your money for other things at next year’s 100th Anniversary. Like the excessive $10 one-way bus ride that MUNI expects you to pay.
Or, like $5 bathroom visits on Fell Street:
Scenes such as these would be more better with an array of unused port-a-potties in the background, non?
I mean, B2B really can’t afford hundreds of port-a-potties in the Panhandle for the tens of thousands of people passing through?
Hey! Cut-to cut-to cut-to cut-to! Let’s cut the action here, and think:
Are you a sucker for registering for the Bay to Breakers?
Mmmmm.
That’s something to ponder over the coming weeks and months.
See you next year, in 2011!
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Telling people *not* to pay the $55 entry fee, then in the same post wondering why the organizers can’t afford more port-a-potties? That’s really cute.
First of all, I’m not telling people not to pay. Of course they are free to do so. The top 10,000 finishers get to have their names in the ‘Xam, if that’s a big deal then good for them.
But the average person out there yesterday has no use for RFID, so why should they pay for it?
The organizer is owned by a billionaire. He/they could afford more bathrooms, but somebody’s decided it’s not a priority. That’s really cute.