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?
Posts Tagged ‘driveway’
The Wasteful, Unused, and Unnecessarily Long Driveway at 1124 Fulton near Alamo Square – It’s Huge!
Thursday, February 7th, 2013Masonic Tableau: What Do You See Here on the Needlessly-Wide Sidewalk? The Cyclist or the BMW?
Monday, June 18th, 2012I’ll tell you, what I notice is not the attractiva on the orange, fully-loaded Public Bike from Public Bikes, but the illegally-parked, aging BMW 3-series convertible.
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But that’s just me.
Hey, who do you think the SFMTA outreached when they wanted to focus-group the plan to put in more unnecessary trees on Masonic for $20,000,000 from Uncle Sucker and/or the taxpayers of the State of California? Do you think it was the users of Masonic Street or the people, like the BMW owner, who live next to it? That’s right, the SFMTA only focus-grouped the nearby residents of Masonic Avenue.
Is that the correct way to do things, SFMTA?
I don’t think it is.
Oh well.
Anyway, cyclists should continue to feel free to use the excessively-wide sidewalks of Masonic, depending on conditions, despite any peer pressure they might feel from governmentally-produced garbage such as this.
What’s So Great About the Great Sand Wastes? West Bay Trilogy: World Champion Driveway Blocker
Monday, April 18th, 2011(Special trilogy bonus round)
How would you like to see this rig parked in front of your driveway?
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(Note missing wheel and half-assed chocking…)
Where Would Jesus Park (WWJP) – Would He Block Your Driveway Every Sunday?
Monday, March 29th, 2010Oh the Yelpers were in a lather this AM over San Francisco’s questionable Sunday church parking policies. Comes now Alexandra to lament:
“What’s the deal with this? Why is it totally okay for church-goers to double park in front of people’s garages and driveways? My friend at work was just telling me how she was stuck at home all day Sunday because of the double-parked cars– she couldn’t leave the garage. Separation of church and state, anyone?”
Indeed. There are different issues here. Sometimes entire streets get blocked, sometimes parallel-parked cars get blocked, and sometimes driveways get blocked.
I’m not sure if San Francisco’s policies are written down anywhere, but what you’re supposed to do is to tiptoe up to the nearest church and whisper about your situation. Then bingo-bango, your car will be freed by a volunteer valet.
The start of another Sunday in “Transit First” San Francisco:
Now of course, we know that the SFPD and SFMTA will tolerate double parking anywhere near a church on Sunday, but what about other similar civic gatherings? If you push the Powers That Be, they’ll say that a church service is just another civic gathering entitled to some longstanding tradition of No Rules Sundays. All right. I don’t really buy that, but all right.
The City used to own a giant Latin cross atop Mount Davidson – alls it took was one lawsuit to fix that.
The City used to discriminate with a law that was neutral on its face - alls it took was one lawsuit to fix that.
Just saying…
The Hanging Gardens of Sutter Street Sacrificed for Volvo Parking
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Remember back in the day when you could see the Hanging Gardens of Sutter Street on Sutter Street? Here they were:
No longer. The front yard of this place had recently been converted into a “private drive.” Not saying that this is illegal or anything - don’t know what all the rules are.
But check it, as the place looks today:
“Oh yes, we’d love for you to pop on over. Just park on our private drive!”
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Of course anybody parking in this private spot needs to pull in at an angle to keep the back end of the Volvo wagon from hanging out over the sidewalk. The problem with the current setup is that, even with diagonal parking, the back end of the Volvo wagon hangs out over the sidewalk. Oh well. Maybe if they got a Smart Car, they’d have an easier time.
Now you’d think the trees would have slowed them down, but no, the trees are still there on the sidewalk.
And the ridiculous sign isn’t to prevent anybody from parking on the former front yard of the house, cause who on Earth would try to park there, right? No, the sign is to prevent people from parking on the street and inadvertently blocking the driveway’s owners from parking on their lawn, so to speak.
Call it the World’s Shortest Private Drive, if you want.
Welcome to San Francisco.
Frustrated San Francisco Homeowners Use Red Tape to Mark Their Driveways
Saturday, March 7th, 2009Having a garage in San Francisco is a luxury - not really necessary but it’s very convenient. The problem comes when you live in a well-touristed area that attracts out-of-towners who don’t understand that they’re blocking your driveway.
Of course you can call the Enforcement Division of the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT) at (415) 553-1200 (or you can call 311 at 311, where One Call Does It All, as they say). But that takes time, so why not just (“illegally,” or in an unauthorized fashion) paint your curb red to scare off the drivers? That’s what some people do.
As here near Haight Street, where it appears a strip of red tape is getting the job done.
Why doesn’t the City just do this itself? Lots of reasons. The authoritahs just assume that drivers know not to block garages, so they save their red paint for other things, such as the curb near your garage cutout. (Sometimes, getting the city to paint the area around your cutout red involves a little bureaucracy - a different kind of red tape.)
But there’s probably no harm to marking the cutout itself red. Impatient parkers need all the help they can get…
Public Right of Way (ROW) Blocked – 2032
The purpose of this web page is to provide the contact information for the city agency responsible for resolving the obstruction of the public right of way due to construction, illegal parking, street furniture, etc.
Public Right of Way (ROW) includes sidewalks, streets, curbs and portion of driveways that intersect with sidewalk and street.
- Blocked Driveway
- Blocked Sidewalk
- Blocked Street
- Blocked Public Parking Space or Strip
- Blocked Accessibility Ramp
- Double Parking
- Parking across a Driveway
- Parking on the Sidewalk
See how serious San Francisco is about 311, after the jump.
The Vanishing Front Yards of San Francisco’s ParkSide District
Friday, November 14th, 2008It’s tough to see much grass in the part of the Parkside District (or Sunset, whatever you want to call it). Due to lack of space for cars to park (due to planners being unable to anticipate the growth of car use), there’s a strong temptation to pave over front yards. To wit:
“The Board of Supervisors gave initial approval to a legislation introduced by District 11 Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, who proposed it as a way to address a problem in his district: residents getting rid of gardens and front lawns by paving them over with concrete.”
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Should we have grass front yards or hundreds of thousands of cars in the first place?
Well, that’s up to you.
Is it true that the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth?
