Posts Tagged ‘Park station’
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
All 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…
Tags: 2013, bay area, bicycle coalition, bicycles, bike, california, citation, cops, cyclists, dept., fell, golden gate park, illegal, intersection, lane, left turn, liight, msonic, NOPA, officers, panhandle, Park station, peds pedestrians, police, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, sfbc, signal, street, ticket, traffic
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
Uh, isn’t this sort of big news?
So how come nobody’s talking about it, except for Camden Avery of Uppercasing, The Upper Haight Blog?
“What happened, according to the SFPD’s Park Station statement, was that at shortly after 11 PM Friday night, two uniformed officers in a cruiser stopped in the street to investigate a man lying down in the road. When they approached, he jumped up and punched one of the officers in the head. According to a security guard at Whole Foods, who witnessed the incident, the assailant called for help from a group of street kids nearby.”
Read all about it.
A hippie SFPD cop with “Stealie” clip identifier on his “assault weapon*”

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*As defined by Senator DiFi. (Of course most people would call a run-of-the-mill, police-issue handgun and handgun, but not DiFi.)
Tags: 2012, arrested, assault, bay area, blog, booksmith, california, Camden Avery, cop, cops, december 7, haight, jumped, kids, Park station, San Francisco, SFPD, shrader, stanyan, street, uppercasing
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Nobody will hassle you* for playing Beer Kickball while holding the concomitant open containers. ‘Cause it’s the Haight, baby.
See? (Note double fister in the middle – I think he was team captain.)

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Beer Kickball – study the rules and then start your own league today.
*Park Station don’t care, it don’t give a shit.
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Friday, November 12th, 2010
The Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council welcomed new police captain Denis O’Leary last night on Page Street.
See?


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HANC – Meet the new Captain of SFPD Park Station
When: November 11, 2010 – Thursday 7:00 p.m.
Where: The Urban School, 1563 Page Street, San Francisco
What: Captain Denis O’Leary will share his thoughts and intentions concerning policing in the Haight.
Information: hancsf@yahoo.com
Tags: 1563 Page, Captain, Denis O'Leary, department, dept., hanc, new, newsletter, Park station, police, policing, SFPD, Urban School
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Check out this SFPD prowler parked in the Funset District – groove on that funky, aerodynamic light bar on top.
Almost thought it was a fake from the filming of NBC’s horrible Trauma action/dramedy at first, but no, if you count the points on the big blue door star it comes up seven (and not eight) every time.

Fake Michael Schumacher will have even less of a chance of evading Park Station the next time he drives his Ferrari F355 Spyder to Haight Ashbury for a pint or five.
Maybe our City is just trying out something new…
Tags: 1275, 355, aerodynamic, ashbury, Blue, car, convertible, crown vic, crown victoria, cruiser, department, dept., detention, district, f355, ferrari, fly yellow, ford, Giallo, golden gate park, haight, light bar, lights, Michael Schumacher, middle, Modena, Park station, police, prowler, radio car, roof, San Francisco, san francisco police department, Schumi, SFPD, spider, spyder, sunset
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
BIKE NOPA has just posted details on the SFPD police report and the District Attorney’s response to the death of pedestrian Melissa Dennison, killed by a collision at the intersection of Fell and Broderick on September 15th, 2009.

The intersection of Fell and Broderick
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
A San Francisco memorial for Melissa Dennison is set for Tuesday, September 29th, 6:00 PM at Ocean Beach (somewhere near the Beach Chalet, most likely). All the details are/will be here on this Facebook entry. From FB:
“Please join me in paying tribute to this bright star.all are welcome.please bring any music,poetry,ect. that melissa liked or that remind’s you of her.and please pass this on to anyone who might have know melissa. any network friends,ucsb,ucsf,etc. thank you.=i’m not sure exactly were on the beach it is going to be,i cant reserve a fire pit.i just need to go early and save one.if anyone wants to help in any way firewood,passing this on,food.you are more than welcome. p.s. this is a drug and alcohol free event.”
The scene at Fell and Broderick:

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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Read this bit here over at BIKE NOPA to see that at least one SFPD lieutenant doesn’t consider the death of pedestrian Melissa Dennison to be a case of vehicular manslaughter. According to Lt. Ramlin of Park Station, at this point:
“There is no determination that it was manslaughter.”
The memorial at Fell and Broderick as it appeared a few days ago:

(Personally, I think when people use the term “speeding” in regards to traffic on Fell and Oak, they’re not saying what mean. Are they talking about cars literally going more than 30 mph? It’s not clear.)
The police report should be coming out soon…
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
The next time you visit Haight Ashbury, which is a Drug-Free Zone by the way, see if you can score a groovy black T-shirt commemorating 100 years of policing at Yelp-rated Park Station. Ask about it the next time you get pulled over on your bike or in your Ferrari

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Tags: department, haight, haight Ashbury, Park station, police, San Francisco, SFPD, street, t-shirt, upper, what a long strange trip it's been
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Why’s that?
You’d think a “drug free” area would be bereft of scoring opportunities, but that doesn’t appear to be the case around Hippy Hill in the Haight Ashbury section of San Francisco.

Just saying…
Tags: 11353, 11353.6, ashbury, california, criminal, drug free zone, drugs, free, fulton, golden gate park, haight, haight Ashbury, health, hippy hill, increased, oak, page, panhandle, Park station, penalties, safety, San Francisco, severely, SFPD, sign, stanyan, zone
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