I guess the Epoch News does real news now? News to me. Anyway:
“Another thing Elizabeth Stampe would like to see is “road diets.’ ”They take a road that’s kind of fat, like Sixth Street, which has a lot of lanes, and they reduce the number of travel lanes,’ Stampe said.”
I do. It was back in the the Summer of 2012 – see below.
Anyway, this was the scene late last night:
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Ah mem’ries:
Wow, this one has it all.
Via Bluoz and from the perspective of those in line at the Nike Air Yeezy 2 campout at Sheikh shoes, it’s:
“Air Yeezy 2 Campout Fight in SF”
Just 23 views so far, but this one, she’s a gonna go viral.
“Air Yeezy 2 campout fight in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco. All this happened while we were in line at Shiekh Shoes. This crackhead hopped on the front of the trolly and wouldn’t get off, so when the lady in pink tried to be a hero she got a SMACK SMACK to the face. Air Yeezy campout. Shout out to the homies that were holding my spot down for me while I was at work. Big thanks.”
Color commentary:
“Get her, Grandma!”
“She’s leaking. She’s leaking.” (In reference to AC TRANSIT BUS FIGHT I AM A MOTHERFUCKER, aka AC Transit Bus Fight)
“That’s some crazy shit – laid out under a train.”
Oh, and then a mess of cops showed up.
Of course, the solution to all this is to give Twitter $20,000,000 and its own bus line so it stays in town.
Mayor Ed Lee Gets It Done!
RUN ED, RUN!
Wow, this one has it all.
Via Bluoz and from the perspective of those in line at the Nike Air Yeezy 2 campout at Sheikh shoes, it’s:
“Air Yeezy 2 Campout Fight in SF”
Just 23 views so far, but this one, she’s a gonna go viral.
“Air Yeezy 2 campout fight in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco. All this happened while we were in line at Shiekh Shoes. This crackhead hopped on the front of the trolly and wouldn’t get off, so when the lady in pink tried to be a hero she got a SMACK SMACK to the face. Air Yeezy campout. Shout out to the homies that were holding my spot down for me while I was at work. Big thanks.”
Color commentary:
“Get her, Grandma!”
“She’s leaking. She’s leaking.” (In reference to AC TRANSIT BUS FIGHT I AM A MOTHERFUCKER, aka AC Transit Bus Fight)
“That’s some crazy shit – laid out under a train.”
Oh, and then a mess of cops showed up.
Of course, the solution to all this is to give Twitter $20,000,000 and its own bus line so it stays in town.
Mayor Ed Lee Gets It Done!
RUN ED, RUN!
This guy is still out there.
He is the Bringer of Earworms.
No pay but the perks just might be out of this world…
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Hey, let’s take measure of the “world-class” image of our “world-class” Mayor’s “world-class” City:
“OH: “In no other place in America would you see so many crack pipes between Nordstoms and Bloomingdales.” A DC-er’s take on #sanfrancisco 
”
I’ll tell you, I don’t think I have ever seen the flames of a crackpipe IRL, but Bluoz has, certainly.
“Congratulations to Mayor Ed Lee for winning the mayor’s race.
November 10, 2011, from the Ed Lee-Randy Shaw-Mid-Market-special-project-corrupt-Twitterloin-tax-area
4 more years of this – yay,
Yep, he ‘get’s it done’ all right”
Marinello School of Beauty betwixt Sixth and Seventh:
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Let’s see here, can you spot the PG&E Tower of our Golden Gate Bridge in the lower left? Good, now check out vertical elements of our old and new San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridges.
Not much has changed with the poorly-managed 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake-related fix-up job that’s due to finish up sometime this decade, so there’s no reason to think that America isn’t still laughing at us.
Of course you should try to not to stare at the new ornamental tower when you are cruising by on the temporary S-curve. Safety First, right? Anyway, it’s a little higher now. See?
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And, of course, Mike still sucks big titties.
That’s your Bay Bridge update for 2011.
60 Minutes just aired its big been-two-decades-after-Loma-Prieta-so-why-isn’t-the-Bay-Bridge-fixed-yet bit. It was mostly good, but let’s start with the bad:
“But they may not know their most important lifeline to the outside world is also one the weakest: the Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco to Oakland.”
The Bay Bridge isn’t a “lifeline to the outside world,” of course.
Then there’s this:
”In 2004, Caltrans finished replacing half a million rivets with bolts and added 17 million tons of extra steel.”
Really, 34 billion pounds of steel? Isn’t that a lot? Wouldn’t that weigh more than every person in the western U.S.? Yes. How about 17 million pounds instead? (That’s a screaming error of more than three orders of magnitude. Journalists, when throwing about large numbers, try not to exceed three orders of magnitude. Of course, you should feel free to continue substituting million for billion and vice versa, I mean, they’re both big – they’re practically the same thing, right? Moving on…)
Now, speaking of bad, what about the workers who seem to have all the time in the world to spend tagging our cracked bridge instead of finding more cracks?
via CalTrans, actually
But hey, what about the good?
Well, there’s this:
“But the decision to build an architectural icon didn’t end problems – it started new ones. The most bizarre was with the U.S. Navy. In 1998, it refused to let Caltrans onto Yerba Buena Island to finish its engineering work. The Navy’s issue was whether the Bridge would overshadow the one-time home of Admiral Chester Nimitz, a hero of World War II.”
Did not know that. I knew there were some kinds of probs but I didn’t know that this was one of them. Bad form, U.S. Navy. Do you think old Ches cares about building shadows? I don’t.
And then there’s this:
“But for those who would say, ‘How dare you take that risk with the lives of people who live in this community,’ you say what?” Pitts asked.
Of course the interviewer didn’t get an answer, but thanks for asking.
Our tough old Bay Bridge has handled stuff like container ship and military jet crashes over the years. Let’s hope it can survive state, federal, and local government mismanagement for just a little longer.
Hold on, Bay Bridge. Hold on.
Of course 1.5 star-rated Critical Mass is a monthly staffing headache for the SFPD, so it’s in the habit of issuing Critical Mass Advisories and making posts on its unfrequented website.
But these days, the SFPD is publicly reaching out and using that social media as well. See? Go scrawl on their Facebook Wall if you want. It’s totally wide open.
Now, the SFPD made the same Tweet last month, but February’s CritMa had a forecast of lots of rain so the turnout of bike riders was low. Tomorrow should be sunny, and what with Daylight Savings Time kicking in we should have a rocking Critical Mass with plenty of attendees.
When, if ever, will pondering Police Chief George Gascon drop the bomb on CM? (You gotta know that he wants to.)
Will it be March 26th, 2010?
See you there.
See the crack? The red stuff will soon take up the slack, and that will be good enough until this part of the bridge gets imploded in 2013:
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You might not even notice this temporary repair as you go speeding by.
Those are the only photos you can get from CalTrans now, as they took down all the others down after they made it onto Northern Calfornia’s biggest blog. Oh well.
And hey, how about that other stuff that CalTrans and everybody is working on? Watch it live right here on the KGO-TV.
Actually, it looks like they’re already done.
All right, first thing up is the crack issue. So, CalTrans couldn’t have seen this crack before? Maybe they should shut down the bridge annually for a day or so if that would help them to do inspections more better? I mean, an eight year old digital camera that you can buy on the craigslist for $75 could be used to inspect for damage as obvious as this – all you’d have to do is walk around on the deck.
Actually, CalTrans wouldn’t even need to shut down the bridge, just a few lanes. It might not have been practical to snap a couple thousand photos in the pre-digital era, but it sure as heck is now. Try harder, CalTrans!
Le crack du jour, as seen with a digicam from the roadway:
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And I promised you some offensive graffiti, so here it is. This photo from yesterday shows some tagging on the bridge near Yerba Buena. See? It says, “MIKE SUCKS BIG TITTIES…”
Coming soon to a “hostile work environment” harassment lawsuit near you:
Perhaps Mike Whiteside’s pals could spend their time looking for more cracks instead of engaging in these kinds of monkeyshines?
We Can Only Hope.
More news as it happens…
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