Like this – dude was going black after block:
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Posts Tagged ‘sidewalks’
Riding Your Bike, Slowly, on the Sidewalks of San Francisco: The Victimless Crime
Thursday, December 20th, 2012Texting While Riding: Celebrating Bike to Work Day 2012 on the Sidewalks of Market Street
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012Maybe soon, you’ll get a fat ticket from the popo when you do this kind of thing.
Market Street USA, outbound, Financh, May 17th, 2012:
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And here’s the message, probably:
“I ts bi le 2 wolk d ay,, d awg!! !”
You Never Really Realize How Many Art Students There are in San Francisco Until a Fire Alarm Goes Off at the AoAU
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Thusly:
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The sidewalks of SoMA couldn’t handle all of these Academy of Art University students in SoMA after a recent fire alarm – they were everywhere.
And I thought most AoA-types were up in the Tenderloin.
Anyway, I didn’t realize how many art students San Francisco has these days…
Risky Business: What It’s Like to “Take The Lane” on Masonic Avenue While Cycling Downhill
Thursday, December 1st, 2011Going uphill, cyclists use the ridiculously wide sidewalks of poorly-designed Masonic Avenue, but going downhill, people don’t really have that option.
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There’s a reason why Masonic is here, why it’s a major north-south route. The alternatives for cyclists are a half-mile to the west (Stanyan) and a half-mile to the east (newly “improved” Divisadero with extra small lanes, which were sacrificed for an embiggened median).
Our City Family has a plan for changes, sometime, but it costs $30,000,000 per mile…
Halloween in the Castro 2011 a Huge Success – City Defies City Family, Shows Up in Costume Despite the Official Ban
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011[UPDATE: Appears as if the City Family actually fought back against the revelers with water trucks. So much for the "zero tolerance" edict from Police Chief Greg Suhr. Anyway, look for Halloween in the Castro 2012 to be twice as big. You'll see...]
To review, here’s the official word from San Francisco’s Gay Goebbels, “City Family” Minister of Propaganda David Perry, about Halloween in the Castro 2011:
“THERE WILL BE NO HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION IN THE CASTRO in 2011″
“…Staying Home for Halloween is the ‘in’ thing to do…”
And here’s the same message from a local media outfit, you know, the one owned by gay-hating, evolution-unbelieving Republican Philip Anschutz:
“Halloween bash in San Francisco’s Castro won’t rise from dead this year”
But nevertheless, cool people got dressed up and headed to the Castro last night (pants not necessarily required), just like back in the day.
Like these people waiting for the 24 Divisadero bus yesterday evening:
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Actually, the Castro was hopping. Via Owenchristoff:
“Fun Halloween! Castro was a zoo. Glad to be back in the quiet Richmond dist.”
Bay Citizen writer Scott James brought it all home for us last night:
“Official party? Nope. Who cares. Crowds converging now on San Francisco’s Castro for Halloween”
And there’s this, from NilesHD:
“Although there’s no official San Francisco Halloween anymore in the Castro, that’s where most people go to celebrate Halloween !!”
Now the way to explain this is by noting that the City Family doesn’t really benefit from people going to the Castro district on Halloween, so it suppresses turnout by lying to people.
Simply.
(If Halloween were an event that the City Family cared about, then things would be much different. It’d be more like the sitch with the America’s Cup 2013, you know, Rich People Like Boats, so it’s full speed ahead with AC13. Oh well.)
Now what’s this, is it the campaign of, speak of the Devil, quasi-City Family member David Chiu on the streets of the Castro last night?
Yep:
And they weren’t alone, of course:
Happy Halloween 2011, San Francisco.
See you next year!
Newsflash: Those Stupid Green Empty Pedmount News Boxes are NOT Required by the First Amendment
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011No, they‘re required by contract, a bad 20-year contract engineered by somewhat corrupt former Mayor Willie Brown.
Blogger Michael Petrelis is looking into these things, particularly some in the Castro – be sure to follow along his adventure this month as he considers attending one the semi-secret meetings that DPW hosts with Clear Channel and others.
These things, which are/were a burden to small local newspapers in particular, seem to require a lot of maintenance and upkeep. Multiple crews were working simultaneously on Market Street a few weeks back:
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Just as the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk was a case study against district elections, ridiculous 20-year contracts what tie the City’s hands are case studies against San Francisco’s Strong Mayor system.
IMO.
Green Monsters of Our Sidewalks: Those Big Ped-Mount Newspaper Boxes Have Got To Go!
Monday, September 19th, 2011Don’t you think?
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Wasn’t this Willie Brown’s idea to get back at those who didn’t praise him 100% of the time? Pretty much.
Nobody really uses these things anymore and newspaper owners need to pay for rent on a monthly basis - that’s not fair, is it?
Weren’t we better off with those old-fashioned newspaper boxes?
The Worst Parkers in San Francisco are the Owners of SmartCars – Why? Their Expectations are Too High
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011These new SmartCars are parked willy-nilly all over town these days, on the sidewalks, in red zones, wherever.
Why? It’s ’cause some of the drivers of these vehicles think , “I can park anywhere!” (I’m srsly, that’s literally what they’ll tell you. They’re proud.)
So when they get to their destinations, they figure they’ll just make it fit, they’ll find a place.
As here, where a women in the Western Addition NoPA area tried to park three yards of Smart ForTwo into a curb space between two driveways that, well, just take a look:
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So, you Smart Car drivers should smarten up and fly straight.
And count your blessings that practices such as Smart Tipping and Smart Tossing haven’t taken root here…
The Reason Why It’s All Right to Ride Your Bike on the Excessively Wide Sidewalks of Masonic Avenue
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011See what this gal is doing? She’s riding her bike on the wide, wide sidewalks of poorly-designed Masonic Avenue.
Do you have a problem with that?
Some do.
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I don’t.
Do you want her in the street with the MUNI buses?
Do you want her to “take the lane” from the drunk drivers? Really? ‘Cause drunk drivers have killed a ped and a cyclist on this particular block of Masonic the past year.
So what’s wrong with her doing this?
Audi Avenue: Powell Street Promenade is a Big Fat Joke – A Series of Eight Parklets to Market Audi’s Cars
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011[During all of this Powell Street Promenade stuff, please remember:
"...the benches draw their inspiration from the aluminum chassis of the all-new A7, the Audi ASF® frame."
There will be a test later.]
[Chronicle Urban Design Critic John King just weighed in. Uh, John, the original plan was supposed to relieve "pedestrian congestion," as this recent design concept from Audi shows, but the current design won't do that. And "parklet" is a pejorative in this case. And those "abstract oars" you see are "inspired by" a 2012 Audi. Thusly:
The hockey stick behind the rear wheel - see it? That's where your oars came from.]
Get up to speed on the new Audi Avenue / Powell Street Promenade Project right here.
Let me tell you, the Powell Street Promenade in Union Square will look nothing like this:
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Instead, it will look like this, with aluminum grating and paddles and twisted things. See?
Are these tables? I think they’re tables:
We were promised no advertising, but you make the call:
“…like much of the promenade, the benches draw their inspiration from the aluminum chassis of the all-new A7, the Audi ASF® frame. While the twisting and sculpting of the metal is intended to reflect the dynamic styling of the luxury sedan…”
Is this why Audi owners make such bad drivers, generally, the boldness? (I’d call it hubris, frankly.) Anyway, let’s let Audi make the case:
“We believe that a boldly designed car, like the new Audi A7, deserves a boldly designed world. So today we’re breaking ground on an urban design initiative to re-imagine Powell Street in San Francisco.”
I’ll tell you, the last thing Audi drivers need is anything to do with boldness.
Oh, and Foursquare too: Audi Powell Street Promenade
This is the primary surface. Number one will pass right through, number two not so much:
Now, the original idea was to have a widened sidewalk but that would have caused issues with area hotels (like them suing the City and County for starters). So we’re going to get cutouts on both sides of both blocks. Thusly:
Here’s parklet eight of eight, near the Cable Car turnaround:
Now let’s thank Gaia that the aluminum hasn’t been arranged in interlocking rings to further advertise Audi and its million-dollar Audi Avenue. But there will be Audi’s name onsite and that’s too much, IMO. Oh well.
And I can’t think of any other carmaker that’s as closely associated with aluminum as Audi, so there’s that.
Was this marketing deal put out to bid, like maybe some other car companies might want to market their vehicles using the streets of San Francisco as well, right? Anyway, I don’t know.
Feel free to share your thoughts with SFGov – oh, whoops, comments be closed, just like the way they have it at BeyondChron, which is also financed with your taxpayer dollars.
All right, which particular Audi did the Powell Street Promenade draw its inspiration from? All together now, the A7! Get one today – starting price is merely $60K.
Hurray!
Lively SocketSite has some deets along with reaction from the commonweal.
[Earworm of the day: We're going rock down to-oo/ Audi Avenue.]
[UPDATE: And a commenter from FineInternets.com frets over the metal theft issue. I wonder how much this aluminum would be worth melted down. See comments.]
