Posts Tagged ‘spaces’
Monday, April 29th, 2013
I’m not finished yet.
Look at this official Bay Area Air Quality Management District staff car. What powers it? Gasoline. Evil, evil gasoline.
Now let’s leave aside the half-assed parking job directly in front of the latest Polk Great Streets Complete Streets “Improvement” Meeting. Oh wait, let’s not. Parallel parking involves being parallel, right? Work on that, BAAQMD. And should you have left your ass hanging over the official SFMTA red zone? Have you no respect for The Law, BAAQMD?
Hey BAAQMD, where’d you come from to get to the corner of Bush and Polk? Tell me and I’ll then tell you which crappy SFMTA bus line you all could have used to get to the meeting. I myself came up Sutter from the office ’cause it’s relatively flat. See? I’m loaded with info!
Conveniently using one of the many parking spaces it wants to eliminate in the Polk Corridor. Let’s call this shot The High Cost of Free Parking:
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Hey BAAQMD! Do you pay the meters when you park you gasoline-powered cars about town on the weekends? I think we had a big deal about this issue just last year, right? Oh no, you just leave the meter flashing EXPIRED EXPIRED while you tend to your bidness for hours? OK fine.
Oh well.
The BAAQMD isn’t an Air Quality Management program, it’s a jobs program.
It’s a jobs program for the people who work for … the BAAQMD.
Just saying.
Tags: 2013, ay Area Air Quality Management District, BAAQMD, bay area, bicycle, bike, bush, california, Complete, hybrid, meeting, meter, parking, Polk, prius, San Francisco, SFMTA, spaces, st., street, toyota, unpaid, white
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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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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
Here’s the flier what’s been popping up on car windshields lately:
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So let’s see here, is the SFMTA going to eliminate “all parking” on Masonic? No.
Was the community outreach [aka SFMTA focus group study] more than pro forma? Yes.
Did more than 50 people participate? Yes, well more.
But* anyway, here’s the protest website.
*There’s just too much spin in this flyer. If people just make stuff up, they are no better than acheerleading SFMTA Project Manager
Tags: 2013, arera, ave, avenue, bay area, bikes, blvd., california, cars, citizen, citizen.nopa, DPT, eric mar, facebook, fell, fix masonic, geary, lane, London Breed, make sallaberry, Manager, masonic, mta, Muni, NOPA, north, panhandle, parking, project, San Francisco, SFMTA, spaces, street, Supervisor, vince
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
This is how it’s going to go with the new Fell Street bike lane.
Looking west from Scott Street:
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So this lane will hug the sidewalk at first and then merge with drivers who wqant to queue up for cheap ARCO gas.
And then, after Divisadero, the lane goes back to hugging the sidewalk all the way to the Golden Gate Park Panhandle. (What you see past Divis is the bike lane on the left and the buffer on the right. Soon it will be filled up with planters or something.)
On It Goes…
Tags: 2012, bay area, bicycles, bike, bikes, california, cars, cyclists, divisadero, dpw, fell street, lane, lanes, paint, parking, path, San Francisco, space, spaces, street, stripe
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
I think it means they want to build a new greenhouse and some offices, but they don’t want to put in the concomitant parking spaces.
I think.
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I haven’t kept track of things there since they put up the paywall. (Do they still charge $7 per capita and pay the workers minimum wage? Something like that.)
Some people want to be alone with their plants at what used to be a free public garden, so that’s fine.
Oh well.
Tags: 2012, 9th, arboretum, avenues, bay area, botanical, building, california, gardens, golden gate park, greenhouse, hearing, new, parking, San Francisco, spaces, strybing, variance
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Oh, and also to speed up the 21 Hayes bus.
Oh, and also to make local homeowners happy. Well, to make some of them happy anyway.
Check it, the stops near Central Avenue,* Broderick, and Scott are all on the chopping block:
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You can try to go down to the public hearing on May 18th, 2012, but it won’t matter – MUNI’s already decided to do this.
Will these changes make MUNI suck less?
Sure
Do I approve?
Sure, why not?
*Avenue? You’re no wider than any other street in the nabe. All right all right, Central, you’re an “avenue.” Keep on telling yourself that, but the nearby streets are all laughing at you.
Tags: 2012, 21, 21 hayes, bay area, bus, bus stops, california, cars, City Hall, friday, hayes, hearing, map, may 18, mta, parking, route, San Francisco, SFMTA, spaces, spots, tep
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
Let’s see here, the penalty for parking a Mercury Grand Marquis (aka Ford Crown Victoria) on the mean streets of San Francisco is, assuming that you carelessly take up two spaces, this:
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See? This car was clean when it was parked here last week.
Damage report: A little paintball action, both yellow and blue, plus messages on the windows, plus a bidness card listing your crime tucked in the driver’s window, plus a pair of way-too-low-pressure tires on the left side (owing to some miscreant letting the air out.)
I cry foul, on the vigilantes…
UPDATE: Le mise-en-scene, for those who care. Probably hundreds of frustrated drivers passed by this scene whilst looking for free parking this past week. I’ll note that the driver of the Toyota RAV4 cute-ute is far braver than I, ’cause parking a car with its nose in a crosswalk, well, that’s a paddling right there, or a $100 ticket or something…
Tags: arrow, cab, crown victoria, ford, ford crown victoria, Grand Marquis, lesson, mercury, Mercury Grand Marquis, no no, paint, paint ball, paintball, park, parked, parking, punish, red, space, spaces, street, street justice, taxi, veterans, yellow
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
Apparently, there’ll be a hearing this month about the proposed Arizmendi Bakery Parklet on Ninth Avenue.
Some people in the ‘hood aren’t enamored of this deal, not exactly sure why. Seems as if the big area NIMBY group is on board, anyway.
Via N Judah Chronicles / Greg Dewar:
We’ll just have to wait and see…
Tags: 1331 9th, 2011, Arizmendi, ave, avenue, Bakery, bay area, california, commission, hearing, Howard Ryan, ninth, parking, parklet, Planning, San Francisco, spaces
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
Some true calibur pimps from Caliber will present an urban photography show at DWN_TWN. The reception at 6:30 PM on Thursday, August 19th, 2010 will kick things off and the exhibit will run until September 19th at 644 Hyde Street, just up from Geary.
You’ll get to see work from:
Brad Evans
Troy Holden
Travis Jensen
See?
See you there!
Tags: 19, 2010, 644 hyde, august, bay area, Brad Evans, caliber, caliber sf, calibersf, calibre, calibur, california, downtown, dwn twn, exhibition, gallery, geary, hyde, people, people places & spaces, people places and spaces, Photograph, photos, pics, places, post, reception, San Francisco, september, show, spaces, Travis Jensen, Troy Holden, urban
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Well look what just sprouted up in Golden Gate Park - PUBLIC HEARING notices like the one you see below. So, it looks like DPT ORDER No. 3619, adopted just four days ago, will be the subject of a hearing at City Hall on Friday, May 29, 2009.
Here’s the upshot – three miles of bike lanes are going in (that’s both ways on JFK Drive from Park Presidio (basically) for almost a mile and a half to the Stanyan, Oak, Fell, Kezar area where the Panhandle starts (basically), so that means 133 parking spaces are coming out.
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That’s the best I can figure, anyway. (I’m not too good at this legal stuff, took the LSAT, got a 48, srsly.)
Take a look at what part of JFK looks like now. Cyclists compete with (legally and illegally) parked vehicles – sometimes they are forced into the “designated lane for cars.” It’s sort of a mess.
Project 7-4 John F. Kennedy Drive Bicycle Lanes, Kezar to Transverse Drives
This project would involve the installation of Class II bicycle lanes [which means a regular bike lane with stripes on both sides] in both directions on John F. Kennedy Drive from Kezar Drive to Transverse Drive in Golden Gate Park. This project would add Class II bicycle lanes… by narrowing existing travel lanes. A limited number of parking spaces would be removed along portions of John F. Kennedy Drive where the narrowing of travel lanes would not provide sufficient space to add Class II bicycle lanes.
Here’s the proposal in four pages of pdf. If you add up the numbers in the handwritten notes, you should get 133 parking spaces removed. (I guess that’s a “limited number.”) Here’s the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition‘s take, on this page here:
Description of project
This is Project 7.4 in the Bike Plan EIR:
John F. Kennedy Drive Bicycle Lanes, Kezar to Transverse Drives
MTA’s Project Description as analyzed in the Bike Plan EIR (Acrobat PDF file)
This project is an element of SF Bike Route 30.
Project Designs and Drawings
MTA’s project material (Acrobat PDF files):
Will Norman Mailer, seen here illegally blocking the current “bike lane” in front of the Conservatory of Flowers, soon be parking his tour bus on top of the new and improved bike lanes?
Only Time Will Tell.
Tags: 133, bicycle, bicycle coalition, bike lanes, bus, cars, cike, conservatory of flowers, cycist, drive, eir, fell, golden gate park, injunction, jfk, Jr, junior, kezar, lane, lanes, oak, panhandle, parking, San Francisco, seir, sfbc, spaces, street, transverse, vehicle
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