Posts Tagged ‘buses’
Friday, November 9th, 2012
Little squirt looks a bit bored back there, but most of these tourists seem to enjoy taking the 2-hour Sky View Tour of San Francisco.
Now, do these tour buses really make Alamo Square “the Wild West?” No, not at all. So, why did former Interim Supervisor Christina Olague say such a thing?
Well, because she was running for election and she didn’t want to piss-off the hyper-sensitive homeowners of the Western Addition.
Did that work?
Non.
Oh, and are the diesel engines much louder than any loudspeakers that non-tourists might hear?
Oui.
So, here they come, day after day:
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Do you hate tourists?
I don’t.
Tags: 2012, alamo square, bay area, bus, buses, california, Chrstina Olague, Double-Decker, loudpseaker, loudspeakers, mcallister, pa, ride, San Francisco, sky view, smplified, street, tour, tourists
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Monday, September 24th, 2012
Of course, Scion is a “maker” in its own right, but I don’t know the model name of this one. (IRL, it’s a Toyota.)
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They have buses too, of course.
Tags: 2012, academy of art, academy of art university, art, bay area, bocy, bus, buses, california, college, corporate, minivan, San Francisco, school, scion, shuttle, suv, toyota, truck, university, white
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Monday, September 24th, 2012
Well, today’s the start of San Francisco Critical Mass Week 2012.
Michael Krasny of KQED Forum will kick things off with a one-hour show on the history of Critical Mass.
And then festivities will end, of course, this Friday with the big 20th Anniversary Ride the evening of September 28th, 2012. (Not that you’d know it from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition website’s ”Chain of Events” section, where all info about CM* is now censored.)
Suddenly surrounded by bicycles:
All the deets:
“It started with a bike ride in San Francisco on Sept. 25, 1992. About 50 people cycled in a pack along Market Street, hoping to earn some respect from drivers who sometimes ignored them or edged them off the road. They called it the “Commute Clot.” Today it’s known as Critical Mass, a movement that’s spread worldwide. Supporters say it promotes cycling and the rights of bicyclists. But critics say it is illegal, clogs traffic and antagonizes drivers. We talk about Critical Mass’ 20th anniversary, and its effects on the city.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
Chris Carlsson, co-founder of Critical Mass who was part of the first ride on Sept. 25, 1992, and has since participated in Critical Mass rides in Milan, Vancouver and Porto Alegre, Brazil
Hugh D’Andrade, founder of SFCriticalMass.org
Rob Anderson, blogger on transportation issues and author of the blog District 5 Diary“
Tune in at 10:00 on your radio or on your device, Listen Live.
*The SFBC raises money through fees but it also gets mucho dinero directly from SFGov. So that’s why it endorsed Ed Lee for Mayor even though SFBC’s members generally did not and still do not like Ed Lee. Similarly, Chrstina Olague, Mayor Ed Lee’s hand-picked recruit for District 5 Supervisor, gets endorsed over Julian Davis even though SFBC members actually favor JD. The SFBC is basically a quasi-government agency now, so it’s very afraid of seeming to say something negative about certain members of the City Family. It’s also afraid of hurting the chances of its officers someday getting jobs / health care directly with SFGov / SFMTA. Anyway, that’s why the SFBC is basically a SFGov kiss-ass these days. It will lobby San Francisco government, certainly, but that’s about as far as it wants to go. (Think about it – who would the SFMTA endorse for Mayor?)
Tags: 1992, 2012, 20th, anniversary, bay area, bicycle coalition, bicycles, bikes, blogger, brazil, brown, bus, buses, california, cars, Chris Carlson, Chris Carlsson, Chrstina Olague, co-founder, commute clot, commuters, cops, critical mass, cyclists, Diary, district 5, district 5 diary, DPT, drivers, election, foot, founder, gavin newsom, Hugh D'Andrade, illegal, injunction, julian davis, Justin Herman Plaza, market, Michael Krasny, milan, mta, police, Porto Alegre, ride, rob anderson, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, Sept. 25, September 28, sfbc, SFCriticalMass.org, SFMTA, SFPD, street, Supervisor, traffic, Vancouver, willie
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Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Like this one.
I suppose you could have heard the tour guide over the P.A. jabbering away, but the noise of the diesel engine was louder.
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So no biggee, right?
So this isn’t actually kind of like the Wild, Wild West at all, right?
Oh, and NEWSFLASH, HOMEOWNERS: You actually live in the Western Addition. And actually, you’re not special.
Oh, and NEWSFLASH, HOMEOWNERS: The pols you consider friends actually don’t like dealing with you.
Oh, and NEWSFLASH, HOMEOWNERS: The white trash visitors you despise are happy people, generally. The white trash visitors you despise are BETTER THAN YOU, believe it or not.
So dry your tears and try to carry on.
Tags: 2012, alamo square, association, ban, banning, bay area, buses, california, fucking nimbys, headphones, homeowners, loud, neighborhood, nimbys, nopna, operators, ppa, San Francisco, tour, Voices
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Monday, September 17th, 2012
Together forever, in Ignatius Heights from a few days back:
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PS: MUNI sucks. And San Francisco’s “strong Mayor” systems sucks as well. Perhaps there’s a relationship there…
PPS: Speaking of which, Mayor Ed Lee’s approval rating is now in the 40′s and MUNI’s on-time rating is down in the 50′s. Perhaps there’s a relationship there…
PPPS: An on-time rating is a fairly stupid way to keep track of MUNI, but it’s what we have so oh well.
And no one’s been lying
‘Cause we don’t lie any more
Tags: 2012, bay area, bunch, bunched, bus, buses, california, clayton, cole, college, DPT, ed lee, fulton, law, Mayor, mta, Muni, parker, San Francisco, school, SFMTA, shrader, street, together, transit, university of san francisco, up, USF, World War II, wwii
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
At first I thought this was an accident scene betwixt 5th and 6th streets, but no, it was just a cop giving a citation to a driver for driving straight through the intersection of 6th and Market.
You see, the cop stopped the SUV, which blocked the MUNI bus (which I think might have been rerouted for construction of the already-worthless yet very expensive Central Subway), which blocked everything else:
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Oh well…
Tags: 2012, bay area, blocks, bus, buses, california, car, cop, DPT, driver, market, mason, mid market, motorcycle, Muni, police, San Francisco, SFMTA, SFPD, street, streetcar, suv, tenderloin, truck, twitterloin
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Just saying.
Oh, the SFMTA wants to ban cars from Market Street for other reasons? O.K.
Oh, there’s a balance of interests here? O.K.
But if you cared about cyclist safety more than anything else, you’d ban buses, streetcars, trucks, taxis, and limos from Market before you’d ban cars.
Montgomery and Market:
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That might not fit with your worldview, but it fits with reality.
Tags: 2012, ban, banned, bay area, bus, buses, california, cyclist, limos, market, Montgomery, mta, Muni, safety, San Francisco, SFMTA, street, streetcars, taxis, transit, trucks
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Jesse Mullan of the Dogpatch Howler has the deets of the remission of SFMTA’s parking-meters-solve-everything expansion. It appears Operation Barbarossa is bogging down this winter due to heavy assault from the Proles.
Per the crappy SFMTA’s Jay Primus:
“I am writing with a brief update on the parking management proposals for the Mission Bay, 12th & Folsom, and 17th & Folsom areas.
The SFMTA Board will no longer be taking action on the SFpark expansion areas at the February 7th Board meeting. Rather, we will conduct further outreach ahead of Board action.
The northernmost section of the Mission Bay Parking Management Proposal was already designated as an SFpark area and will be the only part of the proposal going forward.
For the SFpark expansion areas, including the Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods and the 12th and Folsom and 17th and Folsom proposals, the SFMTA will conduct additional outreach and engage in further discussion with various stakeholders before any further action is considered.”
So, that’s their way of saying no parking meters for now.
Doesn’t the SFMTA know by now that it sucks? It’s hard to tell. Sometimes it seems that the SFMTA thinks it’s not dysfunctional. Isn’t that funny?
Speaking of funny, let’s let Jess Mullan spank the SFMTA over all the bullcrap it spews about SFPark.
O.K. then.
Tags: 12th, 17th, 2012, bay area, blog, board, bus, buses, california, Dogpatch, Dogpatch Howler, dogpath, expansion, folsom, howler, Jay Primus, Jesse Mullan, market, mission bay, Mission Bay Parking Management Proposal, Muni, outreach, parking management, potrero hill, San Francisco, SFMTA, sfpark, soma, south, stakeholders, sucks
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Sunday, November 27th, 2011
[UPDATE: Andrea Koskey has more deets on this collision, as does RedditSF - it has a shot from just afterwards. ]
The driver of this car was taking Oak to get back to the Peninsula this afternoon but she ended up flipping her Honda Civic just before Divisadero.
See?
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So as traffic backed up for miles along Oak, the SFPD began its investigation:
The Honda Shadow:
San Francisco’s “Comeback Neighborhood of the Year” is the host of this scene, betwixt abandoned sidewalk sofas and the LaunderLand:
Now I’ll tell you, we were supposed to get a freeway to link up the terminuseses of 101 and 280 with the Golden Gate Bridge, but what we got instead was Fell and Oak with three or four one-way lanes each way timed for 35 MPH. But these days, for various reasons, the Fell/Oak twins don’t play the substitute freeway role as well.
Recently, this intersection at Divis. has become a bottleneck owing to the inefficient* left arrow phase for southbound traffic on Divisadero to allow drivers to get on eastbound Oak. I’m not sure, but this configuration might have confused or upset the Civic driver, who was driving “all squirrelly” near Broderick shortly before this accident.
LBCOT
*Hey, how about a big fat “NO LEFT TURN” sign for southbound drivers on Divisadero? This intersection wasn’t made “for the neighbors,” so there’s no reason for the people who live in this area to have more of a say than those poor, wretched souls who live way out there in the West Bay, you know, the Sunset and the Richmond. This new left turn phase, like the one at Octavia for inbound Market Street drivers, appears to be a sop for DivCo / NoPA / EaPA locals…
Tags: 2011, accident, bank, bay area, bus, buses, california, chase, civic, cops, crash, district, divisadero, driver, ex, fell, flip, flipped, freeway, gray, grey, Honda, investigation, left, lights, motorcycle, mta, Muni, November 27, oak, octavia, officers, only, over, police, red, richmond, San Francisco, sedan, sfgh, SFMTA, SFPD, shadow, silver, street, sunday, sunset, timed, traffic, transit, turn, upside down
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Can you imagine dragging this articulated wagon through the the narrow intersections of the Western A, you know, like Fulton-Central-McAllister?
I can’t.
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Tags: 2011, 5, articulated, bay area, bus, buses, california, central, concert, crowds, driver, drivers, fulton, golden gate park, hardly strictly bluegrass, hsb, mcallister, mta, Muni, San Francisco, SFMTA
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