Vaillancourt Fountain was a comment on its former neighbor, the Embarcadero Freeway. But the freeway is all gone, so why are we still stuck with the fountain?
Remember when SFGov shut down this fountain back in 2000 to save on operating costs?
Why not let’s do that again?
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(Hey man, nice shot!)
Or better yet, let’s just take this whole thing down.
San Francisco’s “Strong Mayor System” plus the SFMTA = the San Francisco’s worst government agency, one unresponsive to the Commonweal.
Another part-timer goes full time - Training Day in the Birmingham Electric this week:
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Oh, what’s that MUNI, you’re actually perfect and your approach to everything is and always has been perfect and Mayor Ed Lee is a Golden God and everything will get better once you get just a little (or a lot) more money?
OK fine, whatever you say, SFMTA.
2011:
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And this was yesterday during the kick-off of “Bank of America Sunday Streets* 2012″
You see, back in 2011, we opposed Bank of America, but now everything’s A-OK, it would seem.
2011 was bad for BofA, but spending a few thousand dollars on Sunday Streets makes up for that, the thinking goes.
“Financial partners include… PG&E, Lennar, Park Merced…”
Oh well.
*Kind of lackluster, actually. People don’t seem to care as much about this event as much anymore. It’s become more kind of a private-public, corporatist, corporate sell-out these days. Anyway, you can see some of its tents on the left and a few cyclists going past the Ferry Building, if you look hard enough.
All the deets of yesterday’s drive-by:
“A specially designed and outfitted armored vehicle with DTS styling and a high-roof fitted to a GM four-wheel drive chassis was used in the second inauguration of U.S. President George W. Bush. While details of the modified vehicle, codenamed Stagecoach, remain classified, previous such vehicles indicate that it would have been upgraded with advanced armor and safety features in order to protect the president from various threats.
“Its successor entered service with President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. According to GM, the manufacturer, the “2009 Cadillac Presidential Limousine” is the first not to carry a specific model name. The vehicle is a combination of a Cadillac limousine body on the chassis/platform of a GMC Topkick commercial truck and bears styling cues from the CTS and Escalade models as opposed to the DTS.”
Precious memories:
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POTUS was worried that he’d get too excited about seeing San Francisco’s new and improved, almost-America’s-Cup-ready “World Class Waterfront,” so he decided to take a nap.
Best of all, it’s a Cadillac:
Good call, Mr. President.
I guess. Actually they were closed forlunch when I passed by. Today they will be in the Marina in the morning and then at Fishermans Wharf starting at 2 PM.
I don’t know, maybe they’ll have some Dell swag for you as you check out their forthcoming XPS 13, which starts at $1000, which sounds a bit high to me but whatever.
A taco truck without tacos, temporarily in the 415:
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See you there, I suppose.
This is the sequel to Rush Hour, filmed the previous day.
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Not a car in sight.
This is quite a change from five or ten years ago…
The left lane is for bus drivers, and car drivers who choose to ignore the left-turn-mandatory signs at 10th and 6th on inbound Market:
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Was Hawaiian Airlines against OccupySF? Or was it Disney? I don’t know.* I’ll try to find out though…
Anyway, the skating is now over for the 2011-2012 season.
Melting! I’m melting!
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*Some jackholes at Boston Properties et al. would have you believe that these sponsors were up in arms over OccupySF, but I don’t think that that’s true, for either Hawaiian or Disney.
I’ll tell you, in this field of ice skating newbies, there’s just one person who knows how to do it right, gracefully twisting and turning.
Can you spot her?
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She makes it look easy.
