Posts Tagged ‘narrow’

Green Eyes, Red Hair: Mid-Market’s “PARA BELLUM VERDE” Has Got To Be The World’s Narrowest Cafe

Friday, October 5th, 2012

This is it:

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This is all of it.

Cut Your Handlebars Down a Little Each Day, and Soon Your Bike Will Be As Narrow As This

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Hurray!

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Note the sidewalks of Embarcadero Center in the background, as seen in “The Conversation.”*

*The best movie ever filmed in SF? Maybe…

The Daily Bus Showdown Between MUNI and Coach USA – Conflict on 34th Avenue in the Richmond District

Friday, February 4th, 2011

The road to our Legion of the Museum of Honor from Clement, well, it’s narrow. That means that there’s not much room for traffic when cars are parked on both sides of the street

Coach USA had the size but MUNI wanted it more:

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In this particular case, after minutes of humming and hawing and the use of extended hands as makeshift yardsticks, the drivers agreed to pass each other simultaneously, slowly but surely.

Another win-win in the world-class natural amphitheatre that is San Francisco! Hurray!

In related news, Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave is almost upon us.

In San Francisco, You Aren’t Cool If Your Bicycle Handlebars are Too Wide

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Note that these handlebars have room for hands, brake levers and a bell – I think that they can be chopped a bit more, don’t you?

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Still, the slim look is handy for getting around buses and traffic ‘n stuff.

Bravo.

An Everyday Vehicular Pas de Deux in San Francisco’s Corona Heights

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

When the 37 Corbett MUNI bus cruises through Corona Heights, everybody else needs to get out of the way. If not, you end up in this kind of minor traffic jam, a slow-motion vehicular pas de deux with a communal effort to head off/mitigate the incipient collision.

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How can you tell this scene is from 2009?

The WhyIslam? bus ad;

The ubiquitous (#1 luxury vehicle in America these days) Toyota Harrier / Lexus RX “tall Camry”, crossover SUV, avec tiresome “gold pack” badges; and 

The green BioDiesel sticker on the bus

There’s your 2009 right there.

(Ir)regardless, this starfish-like intersection isn’t the problem – it’s the narrow streets combined with parallel parking, that’s the problem.

Please be patient when visiting…

The Narrow Alleys of San Francisco’s South of Market Area

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

You can drive in, but you can’t drive out:

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