Posts Tagged ‘masonic’
Monday, November 20th, 2017
Here you go, on Fell, at Masonic, outbound of course, we see a white Prius in the middle of five lanes:
But there’s just one lane you can be in to turn left to go south on Masonic – that’s the leftmost lane, occupied by a black Honda Civic at this time. But no matter, despite the fact that the light for Fell has been green for a good 20 seconds or so, the white Prius is stopped and attempting to turn left from the middle lane, which is exactly two lanes away from where you’d want to be.
Honking ensued.
But look, the Prius driver has pulled into the neighboring lane and then straightened out. Then it stopped again. One lane down, one lane to go:
At this point, the unique ped / bike only green has gone red so this allows traffic in the left lane to turn left onto Masonic. And look who’s making an illegal left along with the Civic – it’s our friend the errant Prius:
After hearing all the honking and seeing this display of chutzpah, a pedestrian can only turn away with a chuckle:
Anyway, success of a sort – left turn completed.
And here’s the kicker – was it an UBER or a Lyft (or maybe even one of those UBER Lyfts)?
Well, looks like a Lyft.
Yes, you can drive this way in SF, all you San Mateo County-based TNC drivers. However, you will accumulate more than your fair share of moving and parking violations from the non-traffic-oriented SFPD and/or the money-hungry SFMTA MUNI DPT.
And that’s going to eat into your earnings as a Lyft driver.
And of course the legal way to do this would have been to spend a couple minutes goring forward and then making three right turns.
Verdict:
GUILTY
GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!
END OF LINE.
Tags:2017, bay area, california, fell, illegal, lane, left, masonic, prius, San Francisco, SFMTA, SFPD, stopped, street, taxi, toyota, turn, uber lyft, white
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Friday, November 17th, 2017
On it goes, the changes at the 3000 feet of Masonic north of Fell:
Tags:2017, avenue, bay area, blvd., california, construction, contract, green, improvements, leaves, masonic, median, safety, San Francisco, SFMTA, street, streetscape, yellow
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
IDK, I’ve never seen this, in all my years – people double parking near the CCSF John Adams Campus for up to an hour, ’cause somebody forgot to open the gate:
And this is around the corner – it took this #21 Hayes driver a couple minutes of beeping / waiting to buck up the courage to pass traffic what seemed way too far to the left:
But everybody else waited patiently, as if there were no other place in the world to park. Then at 7-oh something AM, the gate opened and Life went back to normal:
How wedded CCSF is to the automobile.
Too bad MUNI sucks…
Tags:2017, 21, 94117, bay area, blocked, bus, california, ccsf, city college, closed, double, favulty, hayes, honking, Line, masonic, open, parking, parking lot, San Francisco, Staff, street, students
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Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Nothing immediately obvious:
There’s this note from SFGov…
But you know, looks normal:
Except for this:
And this:
From this, high above Golden Gate Park:
Myself, I don’t know why we have euc trees in the Panhandle.
Maybe one of them will kill me someday.
(Avenge my death. Avenge me, you know, if you feel like it.)
Tags:2017, bay area, benz, california, car, claim, damaged, euc, Eucalyptus, fell, hit, masonic, Mercedes, rec and park, rpd, San Francisco, street, struck, tree, Unkempt, volvo
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2017
(We’re gonna rock on down to ‘Sonic Avenue, and then we’ll take it higher.)
Looking north from Hayes. The medians will end up with trees, and looks like a few easier-to-see traffic signals as well:
Looking south from Hayes. The median ends early here, perhaps in deference to the SFFD’s nearby Engine 21 on Grove, IDK:
IDK if these trees will survive:
Here are your old-school streetlight amenities. I guess this is meant to please area homeowners. (The similarly brand-new, old-school benches down the hill aren’t really working out, oh well.)
Here’s what looks to be a bus island with a bike lane on the right side. MUNI buses will simply stop in traffic, leaving this part of Masonic with one lane:
Here’s your reverse angle, looking towards Fulton:
Old sidewalk and trees to the right, new sidewalk added in the middle, new bike lane further left, and then the new median:
And there you have it.
Tags:2017, bay area, bicycles, bike, bus, buses, california, Capacity, cars, Improvement, lane, masonic, median, Muni, narrow, new, rush hour, San Francisco, sfcta, sffd, SFMTA, sidewalk, signals, stop, streetscape, trees, wide
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Friday, September 22nd, 2017
Here you go – this is this morning:
And here’s the result. Crosswalks are laid out all the intersections this multi-use path has with Shrader, Cole, Clayton, Ashbury, Central, and Lyon, as I was just talking about a couple days back.
So, who has the right of way at these intersections – is it bike riders or peds? Well, IDK. I know about the arguments, I just don’t know the answers. (Is this bike path a “wilderness trail?” I’ve heard that one, from an in insurance company trying to deny coverage.)
Anyway, I’m thinking that about 25% of the peds have quite deficient situational awareness on this path (including two of the three workers seen above) and about 15% of the bike riders are stereotypical jerkwads who “knows my rights” and go a bit too fast. When these two subsets meet up at these unusual intersections, accidents happen, oh well.
We’ll see how this goes. (One hopes our RPD could put up a little signage about a speed limit and who has the right of way, if that’s not too bold for RPD to consider…)
Tags:2016, 2017, ashbury, baker, bay area, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bikers, bikes, board, california, central, clayton, cole, commission, CROSSWALKS, cyclists, fell, Fell and Oak Streets Panhandle-Adjacent Bikeway Feasibility Study, golden gate park, lanes, light, lyon, masonic, multi-use, oak, oaks, paint, painting, panhandle, path, paths, paving, pedestrians, people, plan, rec and park, red, riders, right of way, rpd, rpd Painting, San Francisco, sfcta, SFMTA, SFPD, shrader, sign, signal, stanyan, street, Trail, walkers, white, with, yellow
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
Background is here and here.
Meeting info is here:
Group: Save SF Open Space
Event title: NOPA community meeting on Grove Street Construction
Event purpose: This is a neighborhood meeting to discuss the construction project at 1846V Grove Street
Meeting Location: Park Branch of San Francisco Public Library, 1833 Page
Time and Date: 7:00-8:30 PM on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
Contact info:
SaveSFopenspace@gmail.com
Tags:1815 fulton, 1815-1823 Fulton, 1817 fulton, 1819 fulton, 1821 fulton, 1823 fulton, 1833 page, 1846 Grove, 1846V Grove, 2017, 94117, ashbury, ave, backyard, bay area, bistro, california, dept., developers, Development, fulton, Gambrinus, grove, infill, KASHANIPOUR, library, masonic, meeting, nimby, north, north panhandle, October 3, Owners, page, plan, Planning, plans, pre application, Pre-Application meeting, real estate, residents, San Francisco, Save SF Open Space, september 6, stop, street, troy, TROY KASHANIPOUR, tuesday, USF, west nopa, yimby
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
Let’s pay off on that headline right now.
Looking east from Stanyan:
Enhance!
Oh here we go: Bikes to the left, peds to the right, see?
Now I say tourists ’cause locals already know that they can tread upon “the bike path” in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.
The real solution would be to widen this path what functions as a sidewalk for the south side of Fell, but for some reason, our RPD SFMTA SFCTA DPW alphabet soup don’t want to do that.
(And their next step will be to add painted crosswalk-type lines on the multi-use path where it intersects with what would be the sidewalks of Shrader, Cole, Clayton, Ashbury, Central, and Lyon if it weren’t for the existence of Golden Gate Park, the better to avoid any more bike v. ped accidents.)
Anyway, for better or worse…
Tags:2016, 2017, ashbury, baker, bay area, bicycles, bike, bikers, bikes, california, central, clayton, cole, cyclists, fell, Fell and Oak Streets Panhandle-Adjacent Bikeway Feasibility Study, golden gate park, lanes, light, lyon, masonic, oak, oaks, panhandle, paths, paving, pedestrians, people, plan, rec and park, red, riders, rpd, San Francisco, sfcta, SFMTA, SFPD, shrader, sign, signal, stanyan, tudy, walkers, with
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Thursday, September 7th, 2017
There was a meeting about this proposal, which was under the radar until a couple weeks ago. Now, it’s a heavy blip, so it won’t be able to sneak into the ‘hood the way The World’s Smallest Burger King snuck into a 990 square foot parcel on 9th Ave back in the day.
Anyway, here it is, and if anything the width of the 3.5 foot wide panhandle part has been dramatically exaggerated in this official map:
The time to have built here was a century ago IMO.
I don’t think it’s going to work out but that’s JMO…
Tags:1815 fulton, 1815-1823 Fulton, 1817 fulton, 1819 fulton, 1821 fulton, 1823 fulton, 1833 page, 1846 Grove, 2017, 94117, ashbury, ave, backyard, bay area, bistro, california, dept., developers, Development, fulton, Gambrinus, grove, infill, KASHANIPOUR, library, masonic, meeting, nimby, north, north panhandle, Owners, page, plan, Planning, plans, pre application, Pre-Application meeting, real estate, residents, San Francisco, september 6, stop, street, troy, TROY KASHANIPOUR, USF, west nopa, yimby
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
I don’t exactly agree with those who wanted this new median, but nobody asked me.
The relatively new one on nearby Divisidero hasn’t worked out.
Tags:2017, avenue, bay area, blvd., california, construction, divisidero, masonic, median, project, San Francisco, sidewalks, street, streetscape, trees
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