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Posts Tagged ‘NOPA’
NHI: NoPA Hipster Invasion, Chapter #3057 – As Seen in the Western Addition
Friday, May 10th, 2013Finally, Some Activity at the Former Poleng Lounge on Fulton Near Masonic in the NoPA Western Addtion
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013Whether it’s to open something new or to hunker down until better times I don’t know.
Anyway, it used to be like this but now it’s like this:
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Look Out, San Francisco Drivers! The SFMTA is Experimenting with Your Currently-Free Parking Spaces
Friday, April 19th, 2013Here’s what happened on Central “Avenue” near Fell Street in the Western Addition NoPA all the way back in 2010.
And here’s the same block today, below.
So, somebody painted these parking T’s where there were none before and then somebody else came along three months later to blank them out with black paint and then, over the years, the black paint wore out leaving the still-visible, commercial-grade white T’s.
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Why would the DPW / SFMTA do this?
To see how parkers would react?
To put in meters?
I don’t know.
Courage.
Confused Driver Gets Ticketed Making the Infamous Left Turn at Fell And Masonic – Why the SFPD Cited Her
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013All right, camera right shows a light-colored Chevy properly waiting at the red arrow light to turn from westbound Fell onto southbound Masonic. The confused driver is in the blue two-door Honda – she wants to make the same turn to get from NoPA to SoPA but she’s in the wrong lane.
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Of course back in the day, the Honda driver would have been driving properly but things changed at this intersection about a half-decade back. Check it. Anywho, she sat there waiting to turn left even though she had a green to proceed straight on Fell Street.
That pissed off the driver of the car behind her, so then its driver is all “hoooooooooonk!” You know, at the Blue Honda Chick.
She doesn’t budge ’cause she knows she wants to turn left, you know, from the wrong lane.
Oh, here she goes, around the Chevy:
Now all that honking attracted the attention of the Park Station police, who also made an illegal left from the wrong lane in order to follow the blue Honda driver onto southbound Masonic. Here they are near Oak:
The moral of this story is that drivers will never get used to this unique intersection set-up. The reason being is that the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition overruled the traffic engineers who originally had cars on Fell turning left at the beginning of the green light phase for Fell Street. But you see, that had car drivers “going first.”
Oh well.
On It Goes…
And oh, what you’re supposed to do when you mistake driving is to just go with it, go with the flow. You know, respond to stimuli. So like if you’re in the westbound lane and you have a green to go straight then you should go straight for a while EVEN THOUGH THAT”S NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW. Obliviously, you can’t just make up your own traffic rules…
Tailgating on Fell Street: What It Looks Like
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013Western Addition Update: Undercover SFPD Cops Visit a Bus Stop Just to Say “Hi”
Thursday, March 28th, 2013Don’t Ever Change, Western Addition: “THAT’S COKE, THE STREET ALBUM” From Fatty Atty Records
Friday, March 22nd, 2013Actually, this van was parked on Divisadero at a place the real estate ladies now call NoPA, so I guess you are changing, Western A.
But anyway…
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And San Francisco’s Smallest Laundromat Has Got To Be Hayes Street Laundry – 1690 Hayes – In the Western Additon NoPA
Monday, March 11th, 2013Longtime NoPA Resident Vince Opposes Removal of a Mess of Parking Spaces on Masonic Avenue – Here’s His Site
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013Here’s the flier what’s been popping up on car windshields lately:
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So let’s see here, is the SFMTA going to eliminate “all parking” on Masonic? No.
Was the community outreach [aka SFMTA focus group study] more than pro forma? Yes.
Did more than 50 people participate? Yes, well more.
But* anyway, here’s the protest website.
*There’s just too much spin in this flyer. If people just make stuff up, they are no better than acheerleading SFMTA Project Manager






















