Posts Tagged ‘chronicle’
Monday, June 17th, 2013
OMG, they’re breeding again. It’s just like Jurassic Park.
All the deets:
David Cruz is a San Francisco wildlife film maker and founder of Natures Lantern. He is currently working on a SF Bay Area Black Bear documentary and a local awareness media campaign for Bay Area Mountain Lion street crossing safety.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alchemicalnature/9045514097/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alchemicalnature/9047748672/
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Cruz has followed this group of coyotes for 3 years. This is the second year he provides breaking unique news photographs that prove these coyotes have reproduced in San Francisco, Golden Gate Park. Historic photographs and background of pups and park coyotes of past years also available.
Taken today Friday June 14,
Natures Lantern
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I’ll tell you, San Francisco Chronicle writer CW Nevius has been fretting about these critters for a while now. And yet it’s always dogs that be biting and killing people, not no coyotes.
Tags: "Mountain Lion", 2012, 2013, Animal Care and Control, bay area, bear, black, Black Bear, c w nevius, california, chronicle, coyote, coyotes, david cruz, David Cruz i, Deb Campbell, Diane Whipple, golden gate park, Haley Bratton, nature's lantern, Nevius, newspaper, Nicholas Faibish, pit bulls, PRESA CARNARIOS, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, VEVIUS, Writer
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
[UPDATE: Kevin Montgomery of Uptown Almanac reacts.]
[UPDATE II: The Twitter-stream of one @kylekirchhoff just went private. C'mon, Bro! You gotta engage with the peeps. Today is your big day. It's not that incrimernating, is it? Bro discusses how much he doesn't like Twitter, McAfee Antivirus Inc, and how many people got shot on a MUNI #14 last year. You know, all the usual stuff. But I'll tell you, withdrawing from Web 2.0 is what criminales do, right? You're just a bro with a bus. Nothing wrong with that.]
[UPDATE III: Aaron Sankin of Huffington Post San Francisco weighs in.]
[UPDATE IV: And now Ellen Huet of the San Francisco Chronicle:
John Avalos, a supervisor who has fought against private companies use of Muni stops, called Kirchhoff’s comments “very disingenuous.”
“What a crock of s—,” Avalos said. “How does blocking a Muni stop make the city more efficient? You’re trying to make money, and you’re creating a two-tiered transportation system in San Francisco.”]
I’ll tell you, I’ve been waiting years for a MUNI alternative to pop up and look, it’s here.
Now I’m not talking about the corporate buses (like Google, Apple, FaceBook and so on) that have been around for a decade or so, and I’m not talking about Uber, Lyft, Sidecar and the like and I’m not even talking about the private version of the taxpayer-subsidized Twitter Express, the 83X.
No no. I’m talking about Leap Transit duplicating the unpopular MUNI Marina Express 30x with a private shuttle bus that costs $6 one-way.
It looks like this, as seen just yesterday:
Via Gregg Meyer
Here’s what the site looks like:
See that? The bus comes with WiFi and leather seats, but they cost three times as much as MUNI. And I’m supposing you and your wheelchair would be better off on MUNI, just a guess. And, oh yes, you pretty much need an Apple iPhone (or as close an iOS device as possible) to climb aboard.
Now you’d think the MSM would be all over this new company, but no. So far, Leap has escaped notice, except from this bloke called Stilgherrian from Down Under. (Uh, he’s _not_ a fan. I haven’t seen a booting like this since Bart vs. Australia)
“This little blue bus symbolises everything that is wrong with the current bubble and boom of internet startup culture. It’s in San Francisco. It belongs to Leap Transit. And, on May 13, this “better bus” — OMFG, it has leather seats and wi-fi! — began operating as part of what’s billed as a “shuttle service for San Francisco commuters.”
Bonus bon mot:
“This socialized [x] is slow and unprofitable. Let’s start a [x] for rich people that pays its employees less.”
Leave there be no doubt, Leap Transit is a wannabe MUNI disrupter. See?
So far, reaction around town has been mixed.
To wit:
“connie hwong @crh17h This has come to my attention: a $6 shuttle from the Marina to SOMA, with leather seats & wifi. Seriously, SF?”
Check it:
I don’t know, if the 30X just passed you by ’cause it’s raining and you see a Leap bus coming at you and you have an iPhone and you’re already signed up, well then Leap just might be worth the six bucks.
A 28-year-old white man wants you to ride his technicolor submarine.
Will you?
All the deets:
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Every time you ride with leap, your credit card will be charged $6.00 automatically upon entering the bus. You…
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Our shuttles flow downtown in the morning, and uptown in the evening. You can get on at any of the stops desig…
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We’d love to. We’re expanding as rapidly as possible. If you’d like us to add service to your area, please sug…
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Leap runs on weekdays during commuter hours. That’s from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM and from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
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We currently only support iPhone, but we will be supporting other platforms very soon.
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We do not currently have a way to have your employer cover the tab. But it is something we’re working on.
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
IMO, this recent statement from Larry Ellison Person Stephan Barclay* is a misstep, but you make the call.
Check it:
“For example, following the death of Ayrton Senna in 1994, a number of measures were introduced, such as better cockpit protection for the drivers. Grooved tires were introduced in 1998 instead of racing slick tires to reduce cornering speed. Safety measures continued to be introduced into the 21st century, with a number of circuits having their configuration changed to improve driver safety.”
All right, I can understand why the Larry Ellison PR people want to compare America’s Cup 2013 to a popular sport like F1 car racing. Right? Because broadcasters actually pay money for the rights to broadcast F1, you dig. (Compare this with Larry Ellison’s America’s Cup, which needed mucho begging of NBC to agree to broadcast some of the matches for free.)
But mentioning Ayrton Senna is not a good move IMO because, from the beginning, it was investigated as a manslaughter case and, in the end, was determined to be a case of manslaughter.
Read all about it.
And, you know, people said the same things about Senna’s sport and Simpson’s sport, about how they are inherently dangerous and whatnot. But that didn’t stop a manslaughter investigation in Senna’s case, now did it?
So where’s our manslaughter investigation?
Oh, just a “review” and let’s carry on? OK fine…
*Or, as CW Nevius spells it, repeatedly, in the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, Stephen “Barkley.” Hey Neve! How’s that new paywall doing for you? Oh, that badly, huh? Miss all those commenters already? Sure you do!
Tags: 2013, ac34, ac72, Americas Cup, andrew simpson, Ayrton Senna, bay area, boats, c w nevius, california, car, ccwnevius, chronicle, chuck, cops, f1, f12, investigation, larry ellison, manslaughter, Nevius, newspaper, police, pr, Racing, review, safety, sailing, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, SFPD, stephen Barclay
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
This is from back in 2008, when the Central Subway project was projected to carry 100,000 riders per day and spin off cash for the SFMTA to use to fund the rest of MUNI:
“Nevius: Chinatown subway plan makes me wince”
“There’s really only one question to ask about the proposal to bore a light-rail subway deep under the heart of downtown San Francisco. You’re kidding, right?“
“Just the initial math makes your head hurt. Basically it works out to somewhere between $1.22 billion and $1.4 billion for an underground railway that runs for less than two miles and has only three stops. That’s not a transit system, it’s a model railroad.“
“Throw in a few of the inevitable cost overruns and this could work out to a billion dollars a mile.”
“No matter. This is the kind of big, splashy project that city officials love to put their name on.”
“Basically, the argument seems to boil down to this - we’ve got the money (as if federal tax dollars grow on trees), the Chinatown community is behind it, why not build it? Oh, let me count some of the reasons.”
“But, critics say, a stop on Market beneath which BART and other Muni lines already run might have made this whole thing an easier sell. That would have created an opportunity for a single station where riders could make connections between regional and local trains, almost like Grand Central Terminal in New York. Instead,riders will have to walk all the way up to Union Square.”
“Oh, and did I mention that in order to get under the BART tube, the subway station at Union Square will have to be at least 95 feet below the surface. That’s nine stories.”
“What is it about that image of deep, underground dirt-munching machines in earthquake country that makes me wince?”
And this is from 2013, after the projected ridership has plunged to about 30,00 per day and its obvious that this subway is going to be a massive annual drain on MUNI’s operating budget:
“The hole in subway opponents’ arguments
I believe the vast majority of the city would love to have a north-south subway that extended from SoMa to Fisherman’s Wharf.
There has never been a city that has regretted building a subway. It’s a great system of transit, it gets people off the street and underground, and it doesn’t experience delays like buses.
What they don’t like is constructing a subway. It’s messy, dirty and noisy. But the result is worth it. Suck it up.”
Oh well…
Tags: 2008, 2013, bay area, bus, c w nevius, california, central subway, chronicle, cwnevius, DPT, Muni, Nevius, newspaper, San Francisco, SFMTA, shinatown, stockton, streetcar, subwway, transist, Writer
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
All right, first of all, if you want CW Nevius to Block you from his Twitter feed, start up a crappy WordPress blog and call him one of the following:
“SHARP-AS-A-MARBLE, EX-JOCK, EVERYMAN NEWS COLUMNIST/QUASI SPORTSWRITER” or a
“BROWN-NOSING, OBSEQUIOUS KISS-ASS LICKSPITTLE TOADIE”
That’s what did it, one or the other, I figure.
So now I’m banned, for life, from the Twitterings of the The Neve.
Oh well.
Anyway, here’s what the Nevinator has to say today about the Central Subway boondoggle.
See? It doesn’t seem that the Nevemeister opposes the wasteful Subway to Nowhere.
But he does! Check it:
“Nevius: Chinatown subway plan makes me wince”
“There’s really only one question to ask about the proposal to bore a light-rail subway deep under the heart of downtown San Francisco. You’re kidding, right?“
“Just the initial math makes your head hurt. Basically it works out to somewhere between $1.22 billion and $1.4 billion for an underground railway that runs for less than two miles and has only three stops. That’s not a transit system, it’s a model railroad.“
“Throw in a few of the inevitable cost overruns and this could work out to a billion dollars a mile.”
“No matter. This is the kind of big, splashy project that city officials love to put their name on.”
“Basically, the argument seems to boil down to this - we’ve got the money (as if federal tax dollars grow on trees), the Chinatown community is behind it, why not build it? Oh, let me count some of the reasons.”
“But, critics say, a stop on Market beneath which BART and other Muni lines already run might have made this whole thing an easier sell. That would have created an opportunity for a single station where riders could make connections between regional and local trains, almost like Grand Central Terminal in New York. Instead, riders will have to walk all the way up to Union Square.”
“Oh, and did I mention that in order to get under the BART tube, the subway station at Union Square will have to be at least 95 feet below the surface. That’s nine stories.”
“What is it about that image of deep, underground dirt-munching machines in earthquake country that makes me wince?”
Of course that was from a half-decade back, but it shows how he actually felt about this boondoggly boondoggle, about Big Dig West.
I mean, the Central Subway proposal hasn’t gotten better the past five years, has it? Five years ago, the promise was that it would “make money” for MUNI, that it would subsidize other parts of the system by generating a surplus. But now we know that it will burden the SFMTA and the current projections for the number of riders per day is down dramatically from what people were promising back then.
So what’s a matter Neve? Why don’t you write things like this anymore? Cat got your tongue?
Pak got your tongue?
The Old Nevius wasn’t afraid to be labeled a racist who’s against “transit justice.”
The Old Nevius wasn’t so monomaniacally dedicated to write source greasers every chance he got.
Oh well.
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Monday, April 1st, 2013
Check it:
Long Gun Serial Robbers Arrested and Connected to George Court Officer Involved Shooting
See? The SFPD just assumes you know that they’re talking about shotguns and/or rifles.
But I’ll tell you, the San Francisco Chronicle considers the phrase to be lingo, based upon the number of times I’ve seen it removed from headlines on SFGate.com
Myself, I think it’s fine phrase….
Tags: 2013, bay area, california, chronicle, crime, gun, lingo, long, long gun, newspaper, San Francisco, SFPD, shotgun
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Monday, March 25th, 2013
Uh oh, bad news for CW Nevius:
“The Chronicle announced today (March 24) that it is putting much of its content behind a pay wall including Matier & Ross, Willie Brown, Leah Garchik, Kathleen Pender and Chuck Nevius.”
So now we’ll only get CW Neviusesese’s conclusions, such as America’s Cup good and SFPD police union great?
All right.
It’s been real, CW.
I’ll look you up the next time I visit OBLIVION.
To wit:
“…behind the paywall. I’d been a business columnist for, like, two months and I was like, Jesus Christ, don’t put me back there…”
Tags: 2013, bay area, C.W. Nevius, chronicle, Nevius, newspaper, paywall, San Francisco
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Friday, March 1st, 2013
This is it, the whole thing.
As seen from Balboa betwixt 6th and 7th:
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Of course The Nevius Incident is still fresh in people’s minds, but the healing has begun.
Bonus: The super-long lines are gone.
NB: You see, CW Nevius? There IS a sign out front. It says Tekka.
どうもありがとうミスターロボット (dōmo arigatō misutā Robotto)
秘密を知りたい (himitsu wo shiritai)
Tags: 2013, 537 balboa, ave, avenues, bay area, c w nevius, california, chef, chronicle, cook, district, fish, himtsu, inner, inner richmond, izakaya, Japanese, mr robot, nazi, Nevius, restaurant, San Francisco, Seafood, sign, soup nazi, street, sushi, sushi nazi, tekka, Tekka Sushi, Writer
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
Appears as if this recent pro-gentrification bit from CW Nevius has garnered a reaction from the street.
Check it:
Via Jason L Loren of The Tech Chronicles - click to expand
I’d say the top suspects in this caper are the tens of thousands of people who have priced apartment rents in the 415 over the past few months.
Of course CW Nevius himself is a newcomer to San Francisco, but he likes increasing rents because he’s an owner, right?
Oh well.
Tags: 2013, attack, bay area, building, c w nevius, california, chronicle, Columnist, crime, fack, fifth, fuck, Fuck CW Nevius, gentrification, Gentrification no longer a dirty word, Jason L Loren, Jason Loren, market, mission, Nevius, newspaper, paint, reader, San Francisco, SFPD, south, street, tech chronicles, white, Writer
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
I don’t know.
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Something to do with corruption?
Tags: 2013, away, bay area, box, boxes, bses, california, chronicle, dolly, dpw, haul, newspaper, San Francisco, sfgov, stand, street, take, yellow
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