Transit First for Thou but not for Thee, that is.
Taxpayer-paid pickup fueled with taxpayer-paid gasoline:
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Why not use your sweet SFGov ride to run errands to make your life easier?
Legend:
GF: Girlfriend. Or sister I guess.
JC: Junior College. You know, the troubled one.
I guess I know why the SFMTA, America’s worst and slowest large transit agency, wants to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to improve its image. So it will then be able to obtain and spend even more of our money, of course.
But I’m mystified as to the thought process behind its marketing.
For example, here’s a happy meter maid saying, ”I am a single mom working to send my child to private school. I am SFMTA.”
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So the San Francisco Unified School District is that bad, huh?
OK fine.
(TRIGGER WARNING, Lookism: And she’s not a model, she’s a Real Person, an actual DPT Parking Control Officer? Latina/a, just a guess. Very attractive/appealing, huh? How did she get selected? Does someone at at the SFMTA’s in-house agency thumb through a bunch of PCO headshots saying, ” …pooch, dog, I-don’t-think-so, oh-now-here-we-go?” Is that how it works, something along those lines? Funny that, SFMTA.)
If I were the SFMTA, I’d take this ad down and never run it again.
If I were the SFMTA…
Actually, if I were the SFMTA, I’d stop lying to people.
I’d say, “The Central Subway is mostly about pork barrel spending.”
If I were the SFMTA…
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…
Here’s the giant ad from the back of today’s never-been-thinner San Francisco Examiner.
“San Francisco’s Finest Adult Clubs welcome RSA CONFERENCE Feb 25 – Mar, San Francisco Travel“
Check it:
So what’s the San Francisco Travel Association logo doing in there?
I’m confused.
(But oh, let me assure all you horny nerd conventio tourists in town for the next few days. There IS sex in the champagne room (or whatever they’re calling the champagne room these days), despite what you might have heard.NB: Bring cash. NNB: Lots and lots of cash.)
Executive Team
Joe D’Alessandro
President & CEO
415-227-2698
Paul Frentsos
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
415-227-2608
Tom Kiely
Executive Vice President, Tourism
415-227-2667
John Reys
Executive Vice President & Chief Customer Officer
415-227-2614
Matt Stiker
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
415-227-2680
Tina Wu
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
415-227-2609
I don’t know.
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Something to do with corruption?
I’ll tell you, I’ve never seen a DPT meter maid ticket a US Postal Service vehicle.
First Lance Armstrong and now this:
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Oh, wait a second, the SFGov meter maid what issued this ticket also has a pension and health care funding issue?
Oh no!
Assuming this is one of them fiscal calendars what start in July.
Welcome to sleepy, inefficient, official San Francisco, as seen in December 2012:
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Let’s hope this thing gets more use in 2013…
You know, in an SFGov building somewhere on Polk Street, for tout le monde to see:
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Solar powered, anyway.
First City Hall was all like this.
Like a week ago:
But now it’s all like this:
See the diff?
Doesn’t it look something like the flags of Mexico, Italy and/or Ireland?
Speaking of Ireland, hated Republican billionaire Ron Conway can trace some of his roots back there, right? So maybe he called up weak-willed* Interim Mayor Ed Lee with some lighting ideas.
It’s not impossible.
Like remember when Republican billionaire Ron Conway got caught trying to improperly influence SFGov over the issue of street parking spaces near the offices of Pinterest? And then he lied about it?
And these days he “declines to state” whether he’s a Republican or not?
You know, if I were straight white male Republican billionaire who was willing to spend millions to buy political influence to make San Francisco more Republican I’d be all, “Gosh darn it, I’m a straight white male Republican billionaire who is willing to spend millions to buy political influence to make San Francisco more Republican!”
You know, direct, instead of, I don’t know, weaselly.
Oh, this just in, here’s a vote for Italy.
*“We talked in your office a couple of weeks before you entered the race and you confided in me that you didn’t want to run, but that Rose Pak and Willie Brown were putting a lot of pressure on you to run and you didn’t know if you had the strength to resist them.”
Here’s something:
“Giants parade cost might remain a mystery“
And here’s something else, seen on California Street yesterday:
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So, how much does it cost to manufacture an official SFGov 2012 GIANTS street sign these days?
Can I buy one? What’s the price?
Or better yet, can I get some for free to hand out to my good friend / benefactor Con Ronway?
Next stop, Willie L. Brown Jr. Boulevard!
Thank you, drive through.
