Posts Tagged ‘lane’
Friday, August 3rd, 2012
Now, you got to hand it to this driver, cause at least he was trying.
But let’s inventory his mistakes betwixt 6th and 7th streets on Market in the corrupt Twitterloin, scene of the infamous Pride Shootings of 2011.
1. (Slowly) blows through the red light at Jones and Market inbound.
2. Belatedly sees the light and then stops right under it when it turns green.
3. Changes into the transit lane after seeing the Right Turn Only sign because he sure as hell doesn’t want to turn right.
Thusly:
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4. Drives through the crosswalk at Sixth on a red in order to fix the mistake he made getting into the transit lane.
Thusly:
He’s lucky he didn’t get a souvenir ticket* from the SFPD.
Not drunk, just a confused newby.
Oh well.
*Which he’d be pretty much free to ignore if he’s leaving CA soon.
Tags: 2012, 6th, bad, bay area, california, driver, green, inbound, lane, light, market, minivan, red, right turn only, San Francisco, SFPD, street, tivket, twitter, twitterloin
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
Wow:
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UPDATE: Well geez, people, this was just a fleeting peek – I didn’t stick around to see how far dude made it down Bush Street and how fast he was going, etc. I’m just saying, “When This Cyclist ‘Takes the Lane’ on Busy Pine Street, He Really Takes the Lane.” That’s all.
“21202. (a) Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time shall ride as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway except…”
Tags: 2012, bay area, bicycles, bike, bikes, bush, california, cars, cyclist, cyclists, cyclsit, lane, pacific heights, pine, San Francisco, street, take, take the lane, takes the lane, taking, too the lane, took, traffic
Posted in bikes | 9 Comments »
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
I guess what people do is to look out for the cops first and then illegally switch lanes to continue down Market Street.
Note red neighborhood parking permit – this guy knows the score:
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Tourists and the bridge-and-tunnel crowd are different – they just can’t get their heads around the idea of not being able to go straight down Market, as motorists have done for more than a century.
Anyway, they’re the ones who tend to get caught.
While the sneaky locals manage to do what they want.
Tags: $10, 10th, 2012, bay area, bike, california, cops, illegal, lane, mandatory, market, police, San Francisco, SFPD, straight, street, tickets, turn
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
This is a little unusual, but that’s what you’ve got to expect from peds on Market Street.
You see, she wasn’t crossing yet, she was just standing around waiting for her light to turn green. It was like she thought she was on an invisible bulb-out:
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Oh, hey, it’s Twitter’s new home!
*Hey Twitter, where our our “benefits” from our “benefits district” or whatever? Tick tock…
Tags: 10th, 2011, bay area, breaks, building, california, cane, cars, furniture, lane, light, market, mart, pedestrian, San Francisco, sf mart, street, tax, traffic, twitter, twitterloin, Waiting
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
Tags: 2011, 4, affiliate, bay area, bay bridge, bmw, Bubb Rubb, california, carpool, channel 4, chp, driver, eating badly, elmo, Gay, KRON, KRON4, lane, LGBT, nbc, Oakland, people, police, San Francisco, stanley Roberts, ticket, Video, violation, viral, whistletip, whistletips, youtube
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
It’s been a while, and things have changed a bit, so here we go again.
As seen behind the Church Street Safeway:
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- Sterile syringe exchange
- Safer injection and sex supplies
- Printed resources and information on drug treatment, medical care, and health & social services
Additional services available at individual needle exchange sites are listed below along with site times and locations.
Site listings by day of the week
- Monday, 7pm – 9pm: Ivy Street (between Polk & Van Ness/Grove and Hayes, next to Tom Waddell Clinic) (Yahoo! map)
- Anonymous, free, oral HIV testing – Tenderloin Health
- Urgent medical care
- Tuesday, 10am – 12 noon: 117 Sixth Street (near Mission) (Yahoo! map)
- Urgent medical care and referrals
- Tuesday, 6pm – 8pm: Duboce (between Church and Market) (Yahoo! map)
- Thursday, 12:30pm-1:30pm: Martin De Porres @ 225 Potrero Ave between 15th & 16th (Google map)
- Thursday, 7pm – 9pm: Hemlock Alley (between Post and Sutter/Polk and Van Ness) (Yahoo! map)
- Friday, 12 noon – 2pm: 117 Sixth Street (near Mission) (Yahoo! map)
- HIV, Hep C testing, 12-2pm
- Friday, 6pm – 8pm: 234 Eddy Street (near the Windsor Hotel) (Yahoo! map)
- Friday, 7pm – 9pm: Mobile Outreach based at 16th Street @ Mission (Yahoo! map)
- Saturday, 3pm – 11pm: 117 Sixth Street (near Mission) (Yahoo! map)
Tags: 2011, AIDS, AIDS Foundation, bay area, bikes, california, disease, drugs, duboce, hiv, ivy, lane, needle exchange, Polk, safeway, San Francisco, San Francisco Needle exchange, SF, van ness, wiggle
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
[UPDATE: Oops. Speaking of which, there are a lot of different possibilities for Oak betwixt Baker and Scott. Taking out the parking lane on the south side of Oak is an idea. In the meantime, take the lane. Or head up Baker to Fulton to Divis to McAllister and then roll all the way down to Mid Market and beyond - that way you avoid the horrible part of Octavia and SFPD bike enforcement actions, etc...]
Appears as if Carly Schwartz, Founding editor of Huffington Post San Francisco, has a beef with the Livable Cities / Livable Streets movement, at least as far as Divisadero is concerned:
“Then put a flippin bike lane on Divisadero! Thanks. http://bit.ly/nwO7u9“
Now that’s interesting because the City, instead of just taking out the useless median on Divisadero, well, the Powers That Be, the City Family, actually went in there a few years back and made the median wider so now there’s less room for bike riders.
See?
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Does it look like, as some say, there’s “excess roadway space” here? Not at all, IRL.
And the sidewalks are like ten feet wide.
So sure, ride your bike on the wide sidewalks of Divis. I mean, I seriously doubt you’ll ever get a ticket.
Or “take the lane,” it’s your choice. (But I don’t advise taking the lane on Divisadero, uphill or down, personally.)
So, how do we fix the horrible thing our City Family and the Livable City movement just inflicted on the Commonweal?
Well, how about narrowing the fast lane to make the slow lane wider?
Or, how about narrowing the median to the width you’ll find north of Geary and then taking out the useless vegetation?
Or, how about just taking out the whole damn useless median? What’s that, it would cost $$$ to move the light standards? Well, get some money from the Feds. Didn’t they just pay money to fuck up Divisadero just a few years back? I think so. So maybe they’d pay to take the light standards out of the middle of the street and put them in the comparatively wide sidewalks of Divis. You know, shovel ready, jobs jobs jobs! What’s that, local businesses and area NIMBYs and real estate interests prefer the trees in the useless median and other aesthetic stuff? Well, who put them in charge?
(Or, maybe we could narrow the wide sidewalks, but that would cost even more.)
So maybe Divis doesn’t deserve a bike lane, but how about just giving back the space that was taken for useless trees?
Wouldn’t that be a start?
Tags: 2011, bay area, bicycle, bikes, california, Carly Schwartz, City, cyclist, cyclists, divisadero, huff po, huffington post, huffington post san francisco, huffpo, lane, lanes, livable, median, medians, San Francisco, SF, street, streets, trees, wide, widening, wider
Posted in bikes, cars | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Pretty much. The basic idea was to take out a few parking spaces. Getting that done in touchy, touchy San Francisco took about a half-decade
So, it used to be all like this:
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And now it’s all like this, on a busy day:
For whatever reason, probably something to do with gasoline prices, this station doesn’t seem to get long lines on Fell as much as before.
Anyway, case closed for now…
Tags: 1175, 2010, 2011, arco, bay area, bicycle, bike, BP, california, cars, cyclists, divisadero, divisidero, fell, fix, fix fell, gas, gasoline, green, joshua hart, lane, Line, nimbys. nimby, NOPA, now, San Francisco, Station, street, time, western addition
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Thusly:
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The whole process took a few years…
Anyway, there’s your update.
Tags: 1175, 2010, 2011, arco, bay area, bicycle, bike, BP, california, cars, cyclists, divisadero, divisidero, fell, fix, fix fell, gas, gasoline, green, joshua hart, lane, Line, nimbys. nimby, NOPA, now, San Francisco, Station, street, time, western addition
Posted in bikes | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Here’s an example of what I was talking about in the comments section here:
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IMO, any cyclists who get into collisions on Market Street as seen above would be held not at fault, but the law’s a tiny bit ambiguous on this one.
This is not the typical dooring situation that was on the minds of the people who drafted CA’s dooring law back in the 1960′s, anyway.
Personally, I’d have the van’s right-side tires hugging the curb before I let anyone open the door on the right side, but maybe that’s just me.
Tags: 2011, bay area, bicycle, bike, bikes, california, California Vehicle Code, cyclist, divisidero, door, doored, lane, lane take, mcallister, middle, San Francisco, tool time, zone
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