Posts Tagged ‘parking’
Friday, April 19th, 2013
Here’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.
Tags: 2010, 2013, avenue, bay area, california, cars, central, central avenue, DPT, dpw, experiment, markers, mta, neighborhood, nimby, nimbys, NOPA, nopna, north of panhandle, paint, parking, San Francisco, secret, SFMTA, spray, street, t, t's, white
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
Golden Gate Park be getting all crowded these days on annual 420 Day, so why not head on down to Noe Valley and light up at 4:20 PM at 420 Day Street instead?
The neighbors will welcome you interloping potheads with open arms. I’m sure!
Actually, Noe Valley is the locus of NIMBY – it’s filled with asshole millionaire homeowners and concomitant neighbor feuding.
Here it is, 420 Day, or close enough. Check out the comically large Planning Commission NOTICE OF HEARING notice on the front gate and the comically small recycling bin out front. (No black garbage can? A point of pride, I’m sure)
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Oh, here we go, here’s real 420 Day, not too far from the Haight Street McDonalds on Stanyan.
That’s not fog, that’s a cloud of exhaled Mary Jane:
An excellent capture from world-famous Broke-Ass Stuart.
All right, Happy 420 Day 2013!
Tags: 2013, 4-20, 420, 420 day, annual, ashbury, bay area, Broke-ass Stuart, buy, california, cars, cloud, cops, department, dept., drugs, golden gate park, gridlock, haight, hill, hippie hill, hippies, hippy, hippy hill, ima, image, legal, legalize, maruijuana, McDonalds, mj, nimby, noe, panhandle, park, parking, photo, police, pot, San Francisco, Saturday, sell, SF, SFPD, smoke, smoking, stanyan, street, sutro tower, teens, undercover, upper, Valley, Vapor Cloud, weed
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
I’ll tell you, I haven’t toured Strybing Arboretum since they threw up the paywall a few years back, kind of a boycott thing.
But I remember the bicycle parking area right out front of the Main Entrance near 9th and Lincoln, you know, right where it belonged.
Well, things are changing.
In another “improvement” from the RPD, the bike parking area is a moving all the way over, as seen in the top right of this image:
Here you go, a big-ass pdf:
12 10-04_DD package Gateway Improvements
On It Goes…
Tags: bicycle, bike, dept., entrance, gateway, Gateway Improvements, improvements, lot, parking, rec and park, rpd, San Francisco Botanical Garden, San Francisco Botanical Gardens, sfgov, strybing, Strybing Arboretum
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
Homeless encampment, major Japanese city, city center, down by the river:
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Note the bicycle parking area.
Cf. San Francisco homeless encampment, under Interstate I-80, Mile Zero:
Note identical blue tarps as in Japan, sourced from, for all I know, the same factory in China.
One group uses bikes to get around, like to work ‘n stuff.
The other will strip your bike of any parts not superglued on in a New York Minute, as soon as your back is turned.
Which group do you prefer?
Tags: 2013, A-Team, bay area, bicyckes, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bikes, blossom, california, cherry, chop shop, craigslist, crime, encampment, homes, interstate, Japanese, Laney College, Learning From Japan, less, Mohawk, Oakland, parking, river, San Francisco, SFPD, soma, south market, steal, theft, van, Vans
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
I didn’t take these photos, but I’ll tell you, I’ve seen a lot of corruption regarding free parking for SFGov employees in the SoMA area, so I believe them.
Here’s a photo essay with captions from Jim, who went on a walkabout yesterday.
Take a look:
“There are the People who pay up front to park in a lot, $25-$70. There are the people who feed meters but many of those wind up paying $72 to the City long after the last pitch. And there are those who play the system and possibly cheat and pay nothing for parking in a “red zone” with the help from “winking and nodding” SFMTA Parking Control Officers.
All these photos were taken within a 50 foot circle near 2nd & Townsend at 2:15 P.M. on Sunday April 7, 2013 during the Giants/St. Louis Baseball game.
1) Number 1 shows what the average slug must pay for parking for the Giant’s game at 2 in the afternoon, i.e. $70.
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2) Number 2 shows a Handicapped placard vehicle getting free Giants game parking in the “red zone” of the SFFD at Second & Townsend. Handicapped placard holders may not park in “red zones.”
3) What appears to be several private vehicles of S.F. firefighters parked in the “red zone” claiming to be working by their Official Papers on the Dash. Is it mere code for “don’t ticket a fellow City employee?”
4) Several motorcycles getting ticketed (TC27, 219) for expired meters by the PCO who just drove by the “red zones” without seeing cause to stop.
5) Photo of SFFD Headquarters at 9:30 A.M., Sunday April 7, 2013 in case you think a lot of people work there on a Sunday.
Tags: 2 street, 2013, 2nd, baseball, bay area, business, california, card, cars, citation, dash, department, dept., DPT, fire, fire hourse, game, giants, handicapped, increased, maids, market, meter, mta, park, parking, pco, permit, placard, pricing, red, San Francisco, sffd, sfmtra, sfpark, SFPD, soma, south, street, ticket, townsend, transit first, UNI, variable
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Look at this guy – see all the stickers he has from San Francisco’s ridiculous residential parking permit program?
He’s probably paid, all by himself, for two or three day’s worth of retirement benefits for a Parking Control Officer.
Hurray!
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And look, he bought a bunch of parking permits the right way, you know, one after the other.
Unlike some other people:
Danielle Steel’s “Parking Orgy“
Remember, Transit First (except for participants of the Residential Parking Program).
Tags: 2013, bay area, Blue, california, car, corolla, danielle steel, DPT, dr woof, fee, fees, G, license plate, Muni, neighborhood, pacific heights, parking, parking parker, permit, residential, San Francisco, SFMTA, sticker, toyota, transit first
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
Via Dallis Willard, who’s Everywhere You Want To Be.
Upon seeing a giant Cadillac on the sidewalk, some peds will call the DPT ticketing service at 553-1200, but others will whip out the blue paint:
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Either way, this looks like a case for the San Francisco Department of Sidewalk Parking.
Car Parked Illegally, Parking Enforcement (415) 553-1200.
On It Goes.
Tags: (415), 2013, 553-1200, bay area, Blue, california, car, Dallis willard, DPT, illegal, legal, paint, parked, parking, San Francisco, SCISSORFIGHT, SFMTA, sidewalk
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Like this:
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And you can’t ride your bike through the parking lot neither, but I do that all the time.
Oh Fell Street DMV, will you ever win?
Tags: 2013, bay area, bike, california, dmv, fell, lot, motorcycle, no, parking, practicing, ride, San Francisco, sign, street, test
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Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Check it, naive Oberlin grad Karin Drucker sends out a Valentine to the SFMTA MUNI DPT right here, in corrupt Randy Shaw’s corrupt, government-subsidized Beyond Chron blog.
Ouch.
I might have made a comment on her post, but, you know, corrupt Randy Shaw’s corrupt, government-subsidized Beyond Chron blog doesn’t allow comments, because Randy Shaw doesn’t want to hear what the proletariat has to say. (Isn’t that funny? And isn’t it funny that you can donate money to the highly-political Beyond Chron blog and then deduct that donation from your taxes? How is that right? How is that legal? I don’t know.)
Of course, the average meter maid doesn’t have too much of an incentive to hang out on the 000 block of Turk, right? I mean, that’s the place where the SFPD tells criminals to do their thing, you know, when they loiter about too close to the front of Our Flagship Nordstrom, for example.
Anyway, this unticketing policy of the SFMTA is news to me.
So this means that, finally, the taxpayer-subsidized Beyond Chron has taught me something asides from how great and prescient Randy Shaw is.
Hurray!
Here’s the “unit block” of Turk as I saw it last week, just saying:
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Tags: 2013, beyond chron, beyondchron, blog, Central City, Central City SRO Collaborative, Collaborative, corrupt, crime, dealers, drug, have a nice day, have a nice weekend, Karin Drucker, king market, meter maid, Oberlin, park, parking, pco, police, randy shaw, SFMTA, SFPD, sro, street, tenderloin, turk, twitterloin, uptown
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Thursday, February 7th, 2013
I”m surprised that there isn’t like 15 cars parked on this thing 24-7:
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This must be the biggest amount of unused space in the entire Western Addition.
Hooray?
Tags: 1124 fulton, alamo square, bay area, california, cars, driveway, long, park, parking, San Francisco, spaces, unused, wasteful, western addition
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