San Francisco’s Obamamania is back in full force now the we are on the eve on the Democratic national Convention in Denver.
This Dolce & Gabbana bus ad is typical of what you’ll see on the streets of S.F. these days:
Check it out - a busload of touristas passing through the newly installed “gate” of Little Saigon on Larkin Street. Almost like Chinatown, huh?
Thus spaketh San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly:
“These pillars will attract some attention and foot traffic to Little Saigon”
Looks like that’s all working out, and without the rancor that they’re having down in San Jose.
Excelsior!
Shown on California Street in the Financial District is a White Motor Company vehicle from the 1930’s. Feel free to call it what you will.
The license plate says “36 LIMO” and the company that owns it, The Ambassador’s Rolls, refers to it thusly:
1936AntiqueRollsRoyceLimousine.htm.
Why don’t we compromise and call it a coach? Click to expand:
You can see similar vehicles on Going-To-The-Sun Road in Montana at Glacier National Park. Glacier’s red buses have been modified a bit for the new millenium. Long may they roll.
First of all, why does San Francisco even have a 13th Street? That’s some bad juju right there. This road pictured below is “covered by the Central Skyway making it one of the darkest and ugliest streets in San Francisco.”
And actually, we’ve got two entirely different 13th Streets in town - the proper one in the SOMA (illustrated below) plus that other one on Treasure Island. We’re just asking for trouble, aren’t we?
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Second of all, MUNI will probably get this 60-foot, articulated ETI Skoda 21Tr-SF TrolleyBus back on the road (eventually), but these Skodas seem to hitch a lot of rides on this ginourmous tow truck. Good thing that these bendy-left-and-right buses are also bendy up and down - it makes towing lots easier.
MUNI fever - catch it!
Here’s the situation. This recent photo shows an interstate bus parked in the westbound bike lane of John F. Kennedy Drive in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Of course the curb is painted red so people shouldn’t park there, but they do.
So where should a bike rider go? Well, around the bus of course, but that seems a tad on the dangerous side. For some odd reason, somebody decided that JFK should have the widest bike lanes in all of Christendom. And there’s an old tunnel under the road so it has a little kink, as seen here, right in front of the Conservatory of Flowers.
When you’re mapping things out in an ivory tower (ala the abysmal Octavia Boulevard) it’s a little tough to see how things will work out in real life.
In real life, pugnacious-looking, Norman Maileresque bus drivers will park their 8.5 foot wide rigs wherever the Hell they want.
So, is there another way to handle the striping on this piece of road? Maybe compromise on bike lane width? Maybe take out parking on the eastbound side of the street? Anything?
This toddler on the side of a MUNI bus on San Francisco’s Market Street is shown all by her lonesome finding inner peace via yoga in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge. (Thank goodness all the trash was removed by that “Save the Bay” shooting crew.)
Perhaps the San Francisco Health Plan is something for you? Available en Espanol.
That’s right, the new Nintendo Wii Fit is coming soon. How will it move you?
But what about Muni? How does it move you? Let’s find out next week.
All that copper over your head - that’s where the Internet lives.
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Ninth Avenue, The Sunset Distict of San Francisco
Check out what local attorney and former Newsweek cover boy John Corcoran saw on the streets of Marin County the other day: a Golden Gate Transit bus supporting both Carole Migden and Mark Leno for the same office.
Perhaps the other candidate, Joe Nation, could buy the ad space on the right side of this bus?
The election is just a month away - things are only just getting started…
Attorney and Political Consultant John Corcoran using a BlackBerry 8100