Posts Tagged ‘route 30’
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Who knows how many fatwas were issued last week against New York Times reporter Scott James - no matter. But now it seems that the cops of the SFPD are getting picky about how cars handle the now-famous intersection of Steiner and Duboce, start of The Wiggle bike route.
This aging Land Cruiser (with tiny 15-inch wheels – a 1993 model?) will never die, but it will get its fair share of tickets on the Streets of San Francisco, for both parking and, as here, yesterday night, moving violations. Oh well.
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Will this controversy result in a safer Wiggle?
Only Time Will Tell.
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Scott James has a tiger by the tail with “San Francisco’s Cyclists Facing Backlash for Flouting Rules of the Road.” You see, he doesn’t just talk about cyclists blowing stop signs at speed, he goes and documents it, all judgmental like. Then he posts it on the YouTube for tout le monde to see. That’s going to rub some peoples’ fur the wrong way.
Not sure if anything has changed in San Francisco lately as far as a “backlash” is concerned. If there were some big new enforcement action these days, we would have heard of it by now. Oh well. One new thing Scott mentions is a Critical Mass website that recently popped up, but those kinds of things have popped up before only to earn derision from the “leaderless” corkers on the street. Oh well.
The SFPD will tolerate “California stops” from car drivers if they’re done “correctly” (you know, slowly enough under the circumstances) and they don’t seem to mind cyclists doing the equivalent, which in this town means blowing through a red light or a stop without losing any speed at all. All bets are off if there’s an enforcement action going on. In that case, the cops will want you to stop and put a foot down before proceeding.
The Scott Street part of San Francisco’s Route 30 Wiggle – the route so nice they paved it twice.
Anyway, writer Scotty has people looking out for him:
“Just try to talk about obeying traffic laws, and suddenly the loveliest ecofriendly riders are instantly transformed into venom-spewing bike bullies. I was warned several times not to write about this or risk being publicly vilified as an enemy of the bike world.”
I’d say yes, let’s count down how long it takes for the writer to be “publicly vilified as an enemy of the bike world” due to today’s article. It’s probably happening already.
Oh well.
Tags: 2009, backlash, bay area, blog, critical mass, department, dept., duboce, halloween, new york times, nyt, police, route 30, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, scott james, SF, sfbc, SFPD, steiner, street, wiggle, Writer
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
See? That’s smooth, baby.
San Francisco Bike Route 20 (if you’re going west, anyway) on McAllister near Pierce. Click to expand:
(If you’re heading east, in towards downtown, the Route 20 switches over to hillier Fulton, which is not recommended.)
And those “lead pipe” attacks (well, not actually lead, probably, but whatever) on cyclists ended more than four years ago. From 2005:
“ASSAULTS ON CYCLISTS REPORTED IN WESTERN ADDITION“
“We’ve received reports of cyclists being assaulted near the corner of Fillmore and McAllister by youths carrying lead pipes during the past few weeks. Use caution when biking through this area after dark, and immediately report any violence to the SFPD by calling 911 (for emergencies) or 553-0123 for non-emergencies.”
So now there’s no excuse not to take The Snick to get to the Golden Gate Park Panhandle bike path.
If you want…
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
These days, it’s all Wiggle this and Wiggle that- but is that really the best way to get to the Golden Gate Park Pandhandle bike path from downtown? Consider McAllister Street to Divisidero as an option.
Yes it has a couple hilly blocks in the Western Addition, but it’s a shorter, faster route – and one that uses less energy, or burns fewer calories anyway per the Gmaps Pedometer. And best of all, you avoid that long wait at the public policy disaster known as Octavia Boulevard.
When oh when will McAllister have it’s own Yelp entry as a relatively flat bike route?
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I propose calling this route the Snickerdoodle, or “The Snick” for short.
Wiggle, you’ve met your match.
Tags: bicycle, bike, civic center, cyclist, fillmore, flat, haight, market, mcallister, octavia, route, route 30, San Francisco, sfbc, snick, snickerdoodle, street, western addition, wiggle
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