Attention truck, bus, and limousine drivers of the world:
It’s hard to drive in San Francisco.
If you’d only realize that when you’re planning your trip into town, life would be so much easier for you.
Via melfoody, from a few days back
Remember, it’s hard to drive here…
Visitors ask all me all the time if my giant Toyota has ever gotten stuck between other cars whilst parked on the mean streets of San Francisco.
And the answer has always been in the negatory.
But I think this here is an actual case, what with bumpers of the black VW cute-ute SUV actually touching the cars ahead and behind.
See?
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I don’t know, maybe you could rev your engine to gently push the cars out of your way, but that would seem to be a risky course.
I guess the driver might have to just be patient and then come back to see when escape becomes a possibility…
Oh well:
Via Jim Greer of online gaming site Kongregate - click to expand
Google Bus/
Google Bus/
It’s not your fault
Wouldn’t the Google Bus have been better off on 24th? I think so.
And hey, didn’t former Supervisor Bevan Dufty meet with area NIMBY’s to iron things out a half-decade ago?
I think so. Actually, I know so. It looked like this:
But the wealthy, white, wizened NIMBYs of Noe still weren’t satisfied.
Oh well.
I hope you’re happy, NIMBIES! Look what you made Google do.
(Or maybe the driver just got lost. You’d think he’d have a map with no-go areas marked out.)
(Do Googlers Google on Sundays? Not that I know of, but they go on fun field trips from time to time, wine tastings and the like, I hear.)
I’ll tell you, Google prolly hasn’t been this embarrassed since that federal cop busted the Maps Car in the Presidio.
Here’s the chase, recorded by Google itself:
And here’s the bust, apparently for not getting a permit from the Presidio Trust after the Presidio Trust told Google it would need a permit:
All right, let’s be careful out there, Google!
Uh oh, I smell trouble brewing after this recent bit from the Bay Area’s Michael Finney.
Check it:
“…a loyal reader sent a link to what ABC seven-on-your-side reporter Michael Finney in San Francisco thinks is news, a 2 minute plus tear-jerker of a story about Terri Weissinger, who made a home for herself in the San Francisco Airport in April.”
The battle is now well and truly joined:
“Mr. seven-on-her-side, Finney had the nerve (reporters are very nervy, busted!) to call the airline for a response as if Ms. Weissinger’s inability to pay for the services of an airline to take her and her stuff from A to B was worthy of a response from the airline and got a somewhat gracious, “We have apologized for her experience but cannot refund her ticket.” Stuck in the airport because of baggage fees, is the characterization of the reporter. She wasn’t stuck in the airport because of baggage fees, she was stuck in the airport because while she certainly looks like an adult, she was as ill-informed and as helpless as a child.”
This is what the lecture on “Aviation Reporting 101″ looks like:
Can’t we all get along?
See it? It’s all lit up 24-7, like a giant Hasbro Lite Brite toy.
Haighteration showed just how bright this light is right here and check out Potato Potato’s take right here.
Thanks, SFMTA!
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Or should I say “Thanks, SOUTHERN MANUFACTURING of Orlando, FL” instead?
(And I still don’t know what’s up with Prius drivers. They’re a breed apart is what I’m saying…)
“Southern Manufacturing is proud to be
recognized as a leading manufacturer of
Blank Out and Lane Control signs. Southern
can design and engineer energy efficient
LED signs using standard MUTCD symbols as
well as unique displays. At Southern
Manufacturing, dedication to continuous
improvements in the technology and
fabrication of Blank Out and Lane Control
signs has led to great developments in
quality and design. We manufacture a
variety of sizes ranging from 24 inches up to
60 inches wide.
Using solid state, high flux/high output light
emitting diodes these signs are engineered
to withstand 110 mile per hour winds. With
a minimum projected life of 50,000 hours,
cost of operation has become a major
decision factor in the engineering and
fabrication of these signs.
Constructed from sheet aluminum the body
and frame is light weight and durable. The
sign bodies are continuously welded for
superior strength and weather protection.
Door frame and body are powder coated to
a standard black, with additional finishes
available.”
Did a Rec and Park cart get stuck in the middle of the Panhandle again? Sure looks that way from this photo, ’cause as we learned from My Cousin Vinny, tire tracks don’t lie.
Instead of working on aesthetics all the time, why doesn’t the PRD work on tasks they’re supposed to work on, like drainage ‘n stuff?
Just asking, bro.
So, when you see all them “AREA CLOSED” signs, just consider them to mean, “AREA RESERVED FOR PICKUP GAMES OF FRISBEE FOOTBALL ONLY.”
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But don’t park your rear-wheel-drive vehicle anywhere near the middle of the Panhandle, else the bog will eat it up. For instance, SFPD prowlers (aka radio cars, aka cruisers) patrolling the GGP get bogged down in La Brea North all the time. See?
I don’t think our Panhandle wants to be a dry, grassy meadow…
This was the scene the other day when a giant truck from Kel Crane of Burlingame crashed into the gate of RPD’s Hayes Valley Playgroundworksite.
The problem was the cable for the giant ball thing up front – it hit the gate so the truck couldn’t go any further, but reverse wouldn’t engage so the driver couldn’t back up. All the car drivers waited for a while as the truck driver repeatedly gunned the engine. Then they gave up by turning around to get off Hayes.
Eventually, the driver was able to get into reverse and then exit the scene with a quickness.
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It’s been years, but they’ll get done with this playground, eventually.
This truck, she is stuck.
The driving wheels are high and dry after the driver tried to take Mason southbound from California westbound this AM.
(Believe this is the very same block Hugh Grant’s stuntman drove down in a Ford Exploder SUV for the filming of Nine Months back in 1995.)
In the next world war
In a jackknifed juggernaut
I am born again
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See? Now there’s your problem. Screeeech!!!!
They ought to have a sign or something.
Of course, limos also have this issue sometimes around town.
Anyway, a kajillion PG&E trucks and the SFPD are on the scene with lots of personnel helping out as California Street turns into a giant taxi parking lot.
I’d have no idea how to get big rig rolling…
Our recent rains have turned the middle of the Golden Gate Park Panhandle betwixt Oak and Fell into a Great Muddy Bog.
So when you’re prowling about looking for criminales in your nose-heavy, rear-wheel-drive Crown Victoria it’s easy to get stuck in the mud, as the operators of Radio Car 075 discovered last night.
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A quick tug from a friendly tow truck driver and you’re back on the pedestrian path where you belong(?).
It would be nice to have more drainage here and maybe also it’d be nice to bring back the Panhandle Bandshell.
Maybe someday.
