From the right-only lane on Market inbound at 10th Street, over the bike lane, and into the transit-only lane.
See?
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From here, the minivan driver went straight down Market, forward, ever forward…
Posts Tagged ‘bikers’
Boy, This Minivan Driver Sure Didn’t Want to Make the Mandatory Right Turn at 10th and Market – Look What He Did
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013A Long Way Down: Child Cargo on Folding Bike
Friday, October 5th, 2012OK fine:
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The New SFPD BMWs are Here, the New SFPD BMWs are Here! As Seen Busting Cyclists on Market Street
Wednesday, June 6th, 20122010:
“On the new green bike lanes and separators sprouting up all over the city:
2012:
Market Street, USA, between 6th and 5th, inbound, morning drive, last week, and the week before, and the week before…
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Dude, is that a BMW R1200RT-P? That’s the first I’ve seen in SFPD service.
Endgame: The Great Pit of California Street Has Now Been Filled Up, Hurray
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012I don’t know about manhole covers and I don’t know why it took four months to do something that should have taken one day.
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Anyway, I think this issue has been resolved…
The Great Hole of California Streets Demonstrates How a Place Like Mexico City is More “Innovative” Than San Francisco
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012This what what you would find on California Street in the Financial District since last year – a manhole* cover hole right in the path of cyclists on Davis Street:
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I don’t know, I thought that San Francisco could have handled things a different way. So I made this post.
But the next day? Nothing. And since then, nothing, until just a few days back when we got this solitary cone:
OK fine, I guess that’ll do, but I wondered why this half-assed solution took months and months.
Anyway, here’s the scene from just one day later, last night, actually:
See? Somebody actually cared enough to implement a better, temporary solution. Let’s call this a three-quarter-assed approach.
After four fucking months, that is.
Now down in Mexico City, a man in a sombrero would have looked at similar hole in the street and he would have said, “Mañana. We’ll fix it tomorrow.” And then, you know what? They would have actually fixed things the next day! They would have put up cones or safety sawhorses or whathaveyou.
Which, of course, is what eventually happened in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District but only after months and months.
Let’s all look forward to Mayor Ed Lee’s next pronouncement about us being the Innovation Capital of the World…
*Person hole, people hole? C’mon, just tell me what to call it these days and I will, I don’t care about using the old term or some new term.
After Four Short Months, San Francisco Finally Fixes The Great Four-Inch Crater of California Street in the Financial
Monday, April 2nd, 2012See, first the intersection of California and Davis was all like this.
Which I thought could be a little dangerous for cyclists, especially roadies, especially in the rain and whatnot.
But of course nothing happened for four months.
But now it’s all like this:
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What can I say but thanks to the SFMTA or the DPW or whomever for this “innovative” solution.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Ed Lee Gets It Done!
Run Ed Run!
Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.
Macho Head Games: When a Car Cuts Off Your Bike-Riding Girlfriend on Howard, Chase Down the Driver for a Yellfest
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012So this five-foot-nothing (possibly hipster) gal on a road bike with unusually-smallish 24-inch wheels was heading outbound on Howard near the InterContinental Hotel with dude here following.
Then the driver of this blue car (6SZJ279, probably a rental) goes past the gal and to the right to get into the garage of the hotel. (Some might call this “cutting her off.”)
Then dude gets out of his saddle for a high-speed chase that probably lasted all of two seconds.
Leaving us here. (One assumes that window-tapping, fender-pounding, and/or tongue-lashing would come next, some kind of confrontation.*)
All huffy on a Huffy. Note Kryptonite lock (or something similar) in back pocket, which was the style at the time, heh:
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So I don’t know, did the driver see the cyclists? If so, he/she was in hurry, as if the driver were a valet parker, which certainly could have been the case. So file this under “D” for discourteous driving.
Or maybe the driver didn’t see the cyclists at all, in which case this particular driver probably shouldn’t be on the road. So, instead, file this under “B” for bad driving.
So, you’re right, dude cyclist, either way, but you’re not as right as you think you are.
And you’re not as righteous as you think you are. Just saying.
There’s your ambiguous ending.
*I had to get to the big box before it closed so I didn’t slow down. Automatic 30-day price protection means you’re giving me back $200 just a month after purchase? Thx Costco!
Rush Hour 2, Market Street Inbound, San Francisco, USA, 2012
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012This is the sequel to Rush Hour, filmed the previous day.
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Not a car in sight.
This is quite a change from five or ten years ago…
Rush Hour, Market Street Inbound, San Francisco, USA, 2012
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012The left lane is for bus drivers, and car drivers who choose to ignore the left-turn-mandatory signs at 10th and 6th on inbound Market:
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The Great Four-Inch Crater of California Street: A Fairly Large Hazard for Cyclists
Monday, December 12th, 2011At Davis in the Financial District
I didn’t measure how far down the drop was from the street to where my foot is in the photo, but it’s pretty far.
Wow.
