Posts Tagged ‘cars’
Monday, April 8th, 2013
I didn’t take these photos, but I’ll tell you, I’ve seen a lot of corruption regarding free parking for SFGov employees in the SoMA area, so I believe them.
Here’s a photo essay with captions from Jim, who went on a walkabout yesterday.
Take a look:
“There are the People who pay up front to park in a lot, $25-$70. There are the people who feed meters but many of those wind up paying $72 to the City long after the last pitch. And there are those who play the system and possibly cheat and pay nothing for parking in a “red zone” with the help from “winking and nodding” SFMTA Parking Control Officers.
All these photos were taken within a 50 foot circle near 2nd & Townsend at 2:15 P.M. on Sunday April 7, 2013 during the Giants/St. Louis Baseball game.
1) Number 1 shows what the average slug must pay for parking for the Giant’s game at 2 in the afternoon, i.e. $70.
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2) Number 2 shows a Handicapped placard vehicle getting free Giants game parking in the “red zone” of the SFFD at Second & Townsend. Handicapped placard holders may not park in “red zones.”
3) What appears to be several private vehicles of S.F. firefighters parked in the “red zone” claiming to be working by their Official Papers on the Dash. Is it mere code for “don’t ticket a fellow City employee?”
4) Several motorcycles getting ticketed (TC27, 219) for expired meters by the PCO who just drove by the “red zones” without seeing cause to stop.
5) Photo of SFFD Headquarters at 9:30 A.M., Sunday April 7, 2013 in case you think a lot of people work there on a Sunday.
Tags: 2 street, 2013, 2nd, baseball, bay area, business, california, card, cars, citation, dash, department, dept., DPT, fire, fire hourse, game, giants, handicapped, increased, maids, market, meter, mta, park, parking, pco, permit, placard, pricing, red, San Francisco, sffd, sfmtra, sfpark, SFPD, soma, south, street, ticket, townsend, transit first, UNI, variable
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Friday, March 29th, 2013
This is the scene down at 4th and Market, where the Big Dig West Coast Central Subway project is, well, digging big these days.
San Francisco’s horrible pedestrians want to get across the northern side of the intersection and it’s this person’s job to stop them from doing so.
It’s not working. Check it out sometime.
But don’t laugh at sad sack Charlie Brown here – the Theory of Prevailing Wages ensures that he makes more moolah than you:
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In closing, San Francisco pedestrians are the worst in the world just saying.
Tags: 2013, bay area, big dig, Boondoggle, california, cars, central subway, construction, corrupt central subway, crosswalk, DPT, guard, hand, hel, held, holding, Monitor, orange, pedestrian, pedestrian monitor, San Francisco, SFMTA, sign, stop, stop sign, subway, Subway to Nowhere, traffic, vest, west coast, worker
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Thursday, February 7th, 2013
I”m surprised that there isn’t like 15 cars parked on this thing 24-7:
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This must be the biggest amount of unused space in the entire Western Addition.
Hooray?
Tags: 1124 fulton, alamo square, bay area, california, cars, driveway, long, park, parking, San Francisco, spaces, unused, wasteful, western addition
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
Here’s the flier what’s been popping up on car windshields lately:
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So let’s see here, is the SFMTA going to eliminate “all parking” on Masonic? No.
Was the community outreach [aka SFMTA focus group study] more than pro forma? Yes.
Did more than 50 people participate? Yes, well more.
But* anyway, here’s the protest website.
*There’s just too much spin in this flyer. If people just make stuff up, they are no better than acheerleading SFMTA Project Manager
Tags: 2013, arera, ave, avenue, bay area, bikes, blvd., california, cars, citizen, citizen.nopa, DPT, eric mar, facebook, fell, fix masonic, geary, lane, London Breed, make sallaberry, Manager, masonic, mta, Muni, NOPA, north, panhandle, parking, project, San Francisco, SFMTA, spaces, street, Supervisor, vince
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
Tags: 2011, 2012, ad, bay area, california, cars, congestion, Donald Shoup, DPT, hourly, meters, mta, Muni, new york times, parking, Parking Availability & Pricing, parksf, pricing, professor, San Francisco, sf park, SFMTA, sfmtawtf, sfpark, sfpark.org, smart, Smart Meter, smartmeter, UCLA, wtfsfmta
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Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Never have I seen such a one-sided newspaper article having anything to do with the SFMTA / MUNI / DPT.
Check it:
SFpark hourly meters actually save motorists money
But actually, SFPark hourly meters cost motorists money.
Oh well.
Guess which side of this street has brand new parking meters and which side doesn’t. (Yeah, I know it looks like street cleaning day, but it’s not.)
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Hey, doesn’t the Examiner run a bunch of ads from the SFMTA saying boosterish stuff like here comes the Central Subway?
Mmmm…
And hey UCLA professor Donald Shoup! Is this kind of thing what you call “responsible parking management?”
What the SFMTA likes to do is spend as much money as it possibly can.
Right?
Mmmm…
And didn’t “motorists” pay the vast vast bulk of the $20,000,000.00 or so that was spent to start SFPark and pay for its concomitant website filled with SFMTA spin?
Yes.
So how does that “save” motorists money?
Mmmm…
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, cars, Donald Shoup, DPT, hourly, meters, mta, Muni, parking, parksf, professor, San Francisco, SFMTA, UCLA
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Two luxury cars, two handicapped placards, yet again:
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Why is it that most Mercedes Benzeses you see parked on the street in the Financial District, you know, the 94111 and the 94104, have handicap placards hanging from the rear view?
Could it be that California’s handicapped placard system is being abused by wealthy bay area drivers who feel that parking should be cheaper and easier for them?
Yep.
Are you kind of a sucker for NOT having a handicapped placard considering that you could easily ask your doctor to sign the form for the DMV?
Yep.
Zoom zoom.
Tags: 2012, audi, bay area, benz, bmw, california, car, cars, free, handicap, handicapped, infiniti, lexus, luxury, Mercedes, park, parking, placard, San Francisco, subsidy
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Monday, December 3rd, 2012
It’s the sense of entitlement.
It’s the sense that anytime a pedestrian gets hit, it’s not the pedestrian’s fault.
Do peds have the right to cross Market Street whenever they want?
Apparently:
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Hey SFPD, how about issuing 100 or so jaywalking tickets each day on Market?
You know, for their own good?
Tags: 2012, bay area, bikes, california, cars, citation, cops, deaths, failure, green, illegal, jaywalking, light, officer, ped, pedestrian, red, San Francisco, SFPD, ticket, yeild
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
This is how it’s going to go with the new Fell Street bike lane.
Looking west from Scott Street:
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So this lane will hug the sidewalk at first and then merge with drivers who wqant to queue up for cheap ARCO gas.
And then, after Divisadero, the lane goes back to hugging the sidewalk all the way to the Golden Gate Park Panhandle. (What you see past Divis is the bike lane on the left and the buffer on the right. Soon it will be filled up with planters or something.)
On It Goes…
Tags: 2012, bay area, bicycles, bike, bikes, california, cars, cyclists, divisadero, dpw, fell street, lane, lanes, paint, parking, path, San Francisco, space, spaces, street, stripe
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
See?
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(Dude is braver, stronger than I.)
Bush Street from Masonic to Market is straight, hilly, and fast – it’s San Francisco’s version of Marin County’s Blithedale Ridge Roller Coaster trail.
Tags: 2012, bay area, bicycle, bike, bikes, Blithedale Ridge, bush, california, cars, comute, cyclist, fast, lane, market, masonic, nob hill, one way, pacific heights, roller coaster, San Francisco, speed run, street, Trail, western addition
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