Posts Tagged ‘duboce’
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Scott James has a tiger by the tail with “San Francisco’s Cyclists Facing Backlash for Flouting Rules of the Road.” You see, he doesn’t just talk about cyclists blowing stop signs at speed, he goes and documents it, all judgmental like. Then he posts it on the YouTube for tout le monde to see. That’s going to rub some peoples’ fur the wrong way.
Not sure if anything has changed in San Francisco lately as far as a “backlash” is concerned. If there were some big new enforcement action these days, we would have heard of it by now. Oh well. One new thing Scott mentions is a Critical Mass website that recently popped up, but those kinds of things have popped up before only to earn derision from the “leaderless” corkers on the street. Oh well.
The SFPD will tolerate “California stops” from car drivers if they’re done “correctly” (you know, slowly enough under the circumstances) and they don’t seem to mind cyclists doing the equivalent, which in this town means blowing through a red light or a stop without losing any speed at all. All bets are off if there’s an enforcement action going on. In that case, the cops will want you to stop and put a foot down before proceeding.
The Scott Street part of San Francisco’s Route 30 Wiggle – the route so nice they paved it twice.
Anyway, writer Scotty has people looking out for him:
“Just try to talk about obeying traffic laws, and suddenly the loveliest ecofriendly riders are instantly transformed into venom-spewing bike bullies. I was warned several times not to write about this or risk being publicly vilified as an enemy of the bike world.”
I’d say yes, let’s count down how long it takes for the writer to be “publicly vilified as an enemy of the bike world” due to today’s article. It’s probably happening already.
Oh well.
Tags: 2009, backlash, bay area, blog, critical mass, department, dept., duboce, halloween, new york times, nyt, police, route 30, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, scott james, SF, sfbc, SFPD, steiner, street, wiggle, Writer
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Democratic Club had an endorsement election down at the Women’s Building in the Mission District last night. Here’s the upshot, via the Twitter:
“Harvey Milk Dems have endorsed Mandelman in D8, Walker in D6 and Goldstein for College Board. Many thanks to all of you who turned out!”
Get up to speed on the elections next month and next year over at the Usual Suspects.
And oh look, Rafael just made the Hot 40 Under 20 Hot 20 Under 40 list at 7×7 magazine. As seen in Duboce Park:
The 2010 election is only 370 days away, so keep these endorsements in mind over the coming days and months…
Tags: 2009, 2010, 6, 7x7, 8, Bisexual, castro, City Hall, club, community college board, debra Walker, democratic, district, dog, duboce, early, election, endorsement, Gay, GLBT, Harvey Milk, Lesbian, LGBT, magazine, Michael goldstein, noe, october, park, rafael mandelman, San Francisco, soma, Supervisor, tenderloin, Transgender, Valley
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
This was the scene last night at the intersection of Hermann and Steiner - it’s a very active construction crew. Vroooom!
How could the neighbors possibly tolerate this racket interrupting their Wheel? And the cyclists doing the Wiggle didn’t seem too pleased neither.
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Or maybe they were filming Trauma again (debuting this Monday night, September 28 on the NBC – where will your watching party be?). That could be it.
Tags: construction, crew, deere, duboce, herman, hermann, John, Midnight, night, park, steiner, street, working
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
It’s the Law.
Duboce Park is where the dogs can run free (in the Multi-Use area) and the children get fenced in – it all works out.
But your pup is going to need a leash to get to the leash-free area, as this sidewalk graphic tries to communicate:
See you there!
(And “please please pick up after your dogs“, they are begging over on the Yelp. Oh well)
Tags: castro, dog, duboce, Duboce Park, graphic, haight, leash, lower, park, sidewalk, stripes, tiger
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Hours after yesterday’s collision and brouhaha in the Castro involving two historic F-Line streetcars (making up the bread part of an SUV sandwich), MUNI workers were still on the job about a half-mile away near the Duboce Yard in the back of the Church Street Safeway.
In technical terms, them wires up there done fell down. So the crew of an awesome yellow truck (with a scissors lift in the middle) came along and started winching things back together high above Market Street, with a quickness. Hurray!
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To the MUNI recovery crew:
For all you do/
This Bud’s for you
Tags: 162, accident, agency, authority, car, castro, circling, cream, district, duboce, F, f-line, helicopters, historic, lift, light, Line, market, Muni, municipal, nissan, noe, pathfinder, rail, railway, recovery, safeway, San Francisco, sandwich, scissors, SFMTA, street, streetcar, suv, transporation, truck, workers, yard, yellow
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Here’s how things progressed on Saturday for the permit-free Bicycle Music Festival. (It appears that San Francisco’s Park Rangers have learned how to glean info from the Internet.) Follow the action via the Twitter:
9:19 AM: “We’ve just arrived at Marx Meadow to be greeted by a Park Ranger…first hurdle?”
9:53 AM: ”Does anyone know Jared Blumenthal [Blumenfeld, actually - it means "field of flowers" if that helps you to remember] or Mayor Newsome [Newsom]? Please call us.”
10:06 AM: “We have to move from Marx Meadow to Ocean Beach. Call/txt your friends to let them know.”
10:51 AM: “Okay, we’ve set up at Lindley Meadow, just a couple meadows down from Marx. Come join!”
But this event was too big to just fly under the radar. So part of this crew showed up at the opening of the Harvey Milk Center for the Recreational Artsin Duboce park to try address the permit issue. Here’s what the ongoing conversation looked like:
Looks like an impasse:
Oh well. They pedaled away on contraptions like these - this is the flight deck.
Catch the rest of the action over at Mission Mission.
Better luck next year!
Tags: bicycle, bicycle music festival, bike, bike music festival, dolores, duboce, fair, fest, Festival, golden gate park, jared blumenfeld, lindly, marx, meadow, music, park, rangers, San Francisco, twitter
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
This private parking lot near off Mission near Duboce has lifts that will carry your car as high as an elephant’s eye in order to let another driver park beneath. Aren’t they beautiful?
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We need these things everywhere. Here’s a place in town that could use a few lifts, right?
But once you start lifting cars, it’s hard to stop. How high can you stack them?
Tags: auto, car, duboce, elevator, lift, lot, mission, parking
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