Posts Tagged ‘path’
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
You can easily ride your rented bicycle from dolphin-rich Ocean Beach all the way to the Eastern Terminus of the Panhandle Bike Path at Fell and Baker without getting lost – you don’t even need a map. But then what? How do you connect to the vaunted Wiggle Bike Route to get to the back of the Church Street Safeway and then Market ?
It’s hard to know which way to go when you’re mired in the EaPA, you know, south of NoPA and north of SoPA*
Now, you’re supposed to just jink over to Oak and then hang a rightie at Scott and then follow the Wiggle but that’s not obvious, not at all.
Blond + Blonde = More Blondies, or hh + hh = hh. It’s genetic law:
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Of course there’s plenty of room for bikes on the left side of busy Oak Street, so why don’t we restripe Oak for a few blocks from Baker to Scott to allow for a superwide lane on the right side? Then we could throw up some signs directing people to the relatively flat way home and be confident that we’ve done things right?
Just sayin’…
*Also known as Lower Haight and also known as S’OAK (South of OAK, I’m seriously).
Tags: 2010, baker, bicycle, bike, bikes, california, fell, golden gate park, haight, jfk, Jr, lower, NOPA, north, oak, panhandle, path, restripe, San Francisco, scott, signs, sopa, south, street, stripe, tourists, upper, visitors, west, wiggle
Posted in bikes, parks | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
If the Panhandle is betwixt you and your destination, just drive your motorcycle or scooter straight through.
Why not?
As seen on Clayton:
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Tags: 2010, bay area, bikes, california, clayton, fell, golden gate park, motorcycles, oak, panhandle, park, path, San Francisco, scooters, stree, street
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
There are two ways to go east and west in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle:
The bike path (or multi-use trail or whatever) abutting Fell Street; or
The pedestrian-only path abutting Oak Street.
Seems that a group of cyclists thinks that the path near Fell should be bicycles-only, based upon all the new scribblings that just showed up.
See?
Is this kind of thing the reason why some say, “No one dares walk in the Panhandle any more?”
Can’t we all get along?
Tags: 2010, bay area, bicycles, bike, bikes, california, cyclists, golden gate park, panhandle, path, pedestrians, peds, route, San Francisco
Posted in bikes | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
See?
Steiner and Duboce, where the Wiggle begins:
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Tags: 2010, asphalt, bay area, bicycle, bike, california, cement, construction, duboce, july, mcadam, new, path, pavement, potholes, San Francisco, steiner, wiggle, workers
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
This is the best angle to see the Big Bunny of Oak Street in the Upper Haight area – can you see the two ears sticking up?
Anyway, that’s my guess as to what RPD employees had in mind.
Enjoy:
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Tags: 2010, bicycle, bunnies, bunny, bush, central, cut, gaint, gardeners, golden gate park, haight, oak, panahandle, park, path, rabbit, rpd, San Francisco, topiary
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
The best part about the Park and Rec Department’s renewed campaign to punish users of the Panhandle bike path for no good reason is when cyclists get hit from all angles unexpectly.
T’pau! Right in the kisser!
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That will learn people not to ride their bikes on the bike path on those dreaded sunny days…
Tags: bicycle, bike, cyclists, department, dept., golden gate park, panahandle, park and rec, path, rec and park, recreation and park, riders, San Francisco, sfgov, sprayed, sprinklers, water
Posted in bikes | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Here’s a little vignette from The Wiggle bike path in the Lower Haight area of San Francisco. The driver of this green cute-ute literally didn’t know where she was going. So, she sat a bit at the westbound stop sign on Waller at Steiner while trying to think of her next move. Maybe she was lost, or looking for a parking space, who knows.
Then here comes dude on his bike. As he’s he’s blowing the stop sign, passing betwixt the SUV and a parked car, the SUV driver decides to turn right. This cuts off the cyclist, who starts out yelling, “Hey lady, do you know where you’re going?” Something like that. Repeatedly.
So here’s the scene after he chased her down Steiner while yelling all the while.
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No doubt the driver needs to try harder, but the cyclist seems to think he has the right to blow stop signs with impunity. If he had stopped and then gotten cut off, then he’d have a point.
Anyway, this typifies your Over-Privileged Cyclist vs. Under-Attentive Driver angry interaction in San Francisco.
Oh well.
Tags: attentive, bike, bike path, car, cut off, cyclist, path, privileged, stop, suv, wiggle, yell, yelling
Posted in bikes, cars | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Via ActionNewsSF, you might search to find a KGO-TV bit covering the traffic-disrupting venting steam pipe at McAllister and Larkin today – it’s more steam than usual, that’s for sure.
But this area of Civic Center right in front of our Asian Art Museum (this year, it’s Shanghai) is basically steaming all the time, right?
HC SVNT DRACONES:
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This intersection is usually steaming, unless it’s flooding. Like this:
via Lulu Vision
Oh well.
As per usual, it all happens on (or near) McAllister Street, Gateway to the Golden Gate Park Panhandle and home of the Snickerdoodle bike path (Route 20), your best way of getting over Alamo Heights while avoiding the abysmal, Hayes Valley NIMBY-designed Octavia Boulevard 24-7 traffic scrum.
Tags: 20, 7, alamo heights, art of the city, asian art museum, bicycle, bike, boulevard, broken, channel, civic center, cover, crosswalk, ctiy hall, cyclists, department, dept., disrupt, disruption, dpw, dragons be here, flodding, flood, hayes valley, HC SVNT DRACONES, Here Be Dragons, hic sunt dracones, hill, intersection, kgo, larkin, macallister, manhole, market, nimby, octavia, octavia boulevard, pass, path, pipe, public works, repair, report, restaurant, route, San Francisco, shanghai, snick, snickerdoodle, soluna, Steam, steaming, street, tc, traffic, vent, venting, water
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Tags: 232, art, beams, bicycle, bike, cable car, cats, destroying, eyes, fillmore, giant, Golden Gate Bridge, haight, kittens, kitties, lower, lower haight, mouth, mural, page, painting, path, red, steiner, street, upper playground, Waller, walrus, webster, wiggle, Window
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
This one. All the way up to the central anchorage of the suspension span…
When (or if) they build a pedestrian / cyclist path on this part of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (the way they’re doing on the span that will go from Treasure Island to Oakland), people will finally experience, first hand, how hilly a bridge can be.
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Tags: bicycle, bike, bridge, cars, central anchorage, hilly, island, Oakland, path, pedestrian, San Francisco, span, suspension, treasure
Posted in architecture, streets | 1 Comment »
