Posts Tagged ‘fishermans wharf’
Wednesday, July 12th, 2017
Once you’ve made it to Sausalito, getting back to Fishermans Wharf to return your rental bike can be a chore with all the uphill, right?
And the heavily-subsidized ferry system for some reason would collect a whopping $48 to take this foursome to the Ferry Building, and don’t forget about the long wait sometimes (and I suppose some get turned away at the end of a day).
But if a taxi driver could somehow carry four (4) bikes and four people up the hill and over the bridge, well that would be great. Thusly:
And there was another taxi doing the same thing just ahead, so I guess this is a thing, I just didn’t think this was possible.
As long as the driver got you to the Toll Plaza of the Golden Gate Bridge, well that would work out great.
Tags:12, 2017, bay area, bike, cab, cabbie, california, cheating, county, expensive, fare, ferry, fishermans wharf, ggb, ggt, Golden Gate Bridge, marin, rack, rental, San Francisco, sausalito, taxi, tourist, transit
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Friday, July 7th, 2017
This was the fear of local bike rental companies when they heard that Michigan-based Ford Motor Company and New Yawk-based Motivate International were teaming up with SFGov to spend mid-eight figures(!) to market “FORD” around Frisco.
And then somebody(ies) pulled this switcheroo what would’ve turned the “last mile” 30-minute maximum service of Bay Area Bike Share (BABS) into a three hour tour. A three hour tour, sponsored by FoMoCo.
But then things got reversed and so our tourists still need to fret about checking in within 30 minutes, or they face a financial penalty, a pretty severe one, actually, costing some tourists hundreds of dollars (even after getting the 50% discount what they’ll offer you if you complain enough, from Singapore, Bremen, Timbuktu, after seeing an unexpected charge on their Visa bill.)
No matter – here are some of the brand-new FORD bikes returning from Marin County…
…heading towards Marin County…
…and heading towards the Golden Gate Bridge or Fort Point or who knows, but even this dude is straying far away from the intended use zone, non?
Anyway, I’ve got more shots iffin you want me to dig them up. But I haven’t seen anyone pushing them uphill, which would almost be mandatory for most tourists if they wanted to actually try to make it back to town without relying on a ferry boat.
And of course, this Comes At A Time when our local SFMTA just paid some dude $75 an hour (TCOE) to pen this FU letter to anyone else who would dare compete with our local SFGov-approved Ford Motor Company / Motivate short-term bike rental monopoly.
Do these tourists know how much they’re spending, or are they just confused? IDK.
Tags:2017, babs, bay area, bay area bike share, bike, bikeshare, boat, california, competition, ferry, fishermans wharf, ggb, gobike, Golden Gate Bridge, gopass, hours, industry, marketing, north beach, rental, San Francisco, sausalito, share, three hour, tourists, visitors
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
Hey, remember Sunday? I do. Well this is how FoMoCo’s GoBike bike rental pricing webpage looked just two days ago:
But this is how it looked a few hours later on Monday:
See the difference?
Now it’s not my job to worry about how much money local bidness makes, but the existing home-grown bike rental companies of Frisco have a point when they recall how the focus of Bay Area Bike Share was going to be on the “last mile,” so the upshot was a 30-minute limit on each rental period with SEVERE penalties for taking a bike out all day, ’cause otherwise heavily government-subsidized BABS would be in direct competition.
Well, I guess Ford wanted to get something out of its $50 million investment so the three-hour GoPass was born.
But now it’s dead.
As you can see.
Of course GoPass would not have “killed” our local bike rental industry, despite what they might claim.
And I’ll tell you, it’s already hard enough for our tourists to go uphill on lightweight 21-speed rental bikes in Sausalito, thusly…
…and thusly…
…so imagine how much harder would it be or them to make the same trip on heavy, clunky, single-speed, bikeshare-style Ford GoBikes?
On It Goes…
Tags:2017, babs, bay area, bay area bike share, bike, bikeshare, california, competition, fishermans wharf, gobike, Golden Gate Bridge, gopass, industry, marketing, north beach, rental, San Francisco, sausalito, share, three hour, tourists, visitors
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Friday, October 14th, 2016
From the Joe Dimaggio Building:
“What I don’t understand, is why you ask where I’ve gone. I just did a Mr. Coffee commercial, I’m a spokesman for the Bowery Savings Bank and I haven’t gone anywhere!”
Tags:2016, bay area, building, california, crab, eat at joes, eat crab, fishermans, fishermans wharf, Joe Dimaggio, San Francisco, wharf
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Friday, October 14th, 2016
Does this make sense?
How about this?
Homeowners in the Marina, our Great White North, don’t want to be “closer” to the Fish Wharf, so this tunnel will remain closed…
Tags:2016, bay area, california, closed, fishermans wharf, fort mason, fort mason tunnel, ft mason tunnel, hill, Muni, San Francisco, SFMTA, TRACKS, train, trolley, tunnel
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Thursday, September 1st, 2016
What’s this?
It’s Rocketboat! Doing donuts on the water, as it is wont to do
Rocketboat! Rocketboat! Rocketboat!
Kicking a little sand in the base of the Echo Tower of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge:
And now, cleverly, Rocketboat sneaks up on Delta Tower in the shadow of the roadbed:
And then, some more donuts:
And here are some shots of Rocketboat from back in the aughts:
See them here. (I guess RB is red at the front and back and that fades to orange on the sides.)
Someday, I’ll ride you, Rocketboat.
Someday.
Tags:2016, Bay, bay area, bridge, california, fishermans wharf, orange, passengers, pier 39, ride, rocket boat, rocketboat, San Francisco, speed boat, water, wet
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
Tags:2016, bay area, california, dpw, fishermans wharf, garbage, Jefferson, messy, messy tourists, San Francisco, tourists, trash, WHMTEAHIU
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
The gapers:
The gapees:
Someday, soon, we’ll get a full crew of sea lions back at Pier 39.
Oorh oorh orh…
Tags:2016, bay area, california, few, fishermans wharf, gape, many, pier, pier 39, San Francisco, sea lions, season, stare, tourists, wharf
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
Now even I’m confused, after that copy pasting.
At first, I saw the word HOUSE and I read the cursive writing as CLIFF. But oh, CHART HOUSE, Pier 39. Two stars on Yelp, even with your possible shill reviews thrown in:
And oh yes, bring your money. Lots and lots of money…
Tags:2016, ad, bay area, california, chart, chart hous, cliff, cliff house, expensive, fishermans wharf, house, Muni, pier 39, San Francisco, SFMTA, yelp
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Friday, November 13th, 2015
Just look at this thing in front of Pier 39 – it’s huge!
And it’s 100% real, for better or worse. I heard it’s 55 feet, but officially it’s 60, perhaps due to rounding, IDK:
I’m calling this thing an Attraction:
Oh, but why so soon, in early November?
(WHY SO SOON? TWSS!)
This issue hadn’t occurred to me – I guess it is a bit early. (But feel free to add that to the lengthy list of things I care absolutely nothing about.)
Anyway, the Lighting Ceremonies are coming November 21-22, 2015.
See you there!
Tags:2015, 55, bay area, california, characters, Disney, families, feet, fir, fishermans wharf, kids, lighting, mount, pier 39, real, San Francisco, Shasta, tall, too soon, tree, white fir
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