Posts Tagged ‘trees’
Monday, March 4th, 2013
UCSF is finally getting off its ass and doing something about all those eucalyptus trees and this is the response?
I cry foul.
Now, leaving aside the fact that the Mount Sutro “cloud forest” aint a cloud forest and it aint a forest* neither, UCSF does stuff.
What do the whiny millionaire NIMBY neighbors of UCSF do? Nothing.
Advantage: UCSF.
Of course, there are impoverished hippies who similarly oppose UCSF doing anything to manage this area, so I’m going to look into this when I can.
But the assumption is:
WHY SHOULDN’T UCSF BE ABLE TO MANAGE ITS LAND?
See? UCSF does stuff. What do YOU do?
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To Be Continued…
*What is it really? A stand, a grove, a wood? (Which is the most insulting?) Alls I know is that Christopher Robin used to play in the Hundred Acre Wood, not the Hundred Acre Forest, right?
Tags: 2013, bay area, california, cloud, cut, eye, forest, glaucoma, grove, medical, mobile eye service, mount sutro, San Francisco, stand, sutro, that man may see, trees, truck, UC, ucsf, ucsf campus, university of california, wood
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Hey, it’s the Masonic Avenue Street Design Study:
“About the Project – The primary goal of the Masonic Avenue Street Design Study is to identify how Masonic Avenue between Geary Boulevard and Fell Street can safely and efficiently accommodate the needs of all roadway users, including but not limited to … motorists.”
ALL RIGHT, EXACTLY HOW DOES THIS PROJECT “ACCOMMODATE THE NEEDS” OF “MOTORISTS?” OH, NOT AT ALL? THOUGHT SO. MOVING ON.
Objectives:
1. Engage representatives of all constituencies within the community who would be impacted by changes to Masonic Avenue…
ALL RIGHT, WHICH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE “MOTORIST” “CONSTITUENCY” WERE “ENGAGED?” ANY AT ALL? YOU KNOW, THE OCTAVIA BOULEVARD PEOPLE “ENGAGED” MOTORISTS AS FAR AWAY AS MONTEREY BOULEVARD, OUT THERE WITH CLIPBOARDS AND EVERYTHING. DID THE MASONIC AVENUE PEOPLE DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT? OH NO.
2. Improve transit operation.
THIS PROJECT WILL UNIMPROVE TRANSIT OPERATION ON AND AROUND MASONIC – THERE’S NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. IT’S GOING TO SLOW DOWN THE BUSES THAT USE MASONIC, INCLUDING THE OCCASIONAL #5 FULTON AND #21 HAYES.
3. Improve pedestrian and non-motorized access to transit.
SO TRANSIT USERS WILL HAVE “BETTER ACCESS” TO REDUCED BUS SERVICE? I DON’T GET THE BETTER ACCESS PART – YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT A BUS STOP? ALSO, WHAT’S “MOTORIZED ACCESS TO TRANSIT?”
4. Increase the safety of pedestrian crossings.
YOU KNOW, THE PRIOR PROJECT MANAGER IS ON THE RECORD AS STATING THAT THIS KIND OF THING IS BAD TO DO LIKE NOW BECAUSE IT WOULD HURT THE CAUSE OF PUSHING THE ENTIRE PROJECT THROUGH. KIND OF SAD, REALLY.
5. Increase motorist compliance with traffic rules and regulations.
UH, WHAT, WITH TREES? IF I WANTED TO INCREASE COMPLIANCE WITH TRAFFIC LAWS, I’D JACK THE SPEED LIMIT UP TO 40 MPH. NOW, THAT WOULD HAVE SOME SIDE EFFECTS, BUT IT CERTAINLY WOULD REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF SPEEDING, RIGHT? OR, HAVING HOURS-LONG TRAFFIC JAM UPS DURING THE MORNING AND EVENING DRIVES WOULD REDUCE SPEEDING, IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE GETTING AT?
6. Reduce the number of vehicular collisions, especially those involving pedestrians and bicyclists.
HOW? BY PLANTING TREES? WE’LL SEE. HEY DIDN’T THE RECENT OCTAVIA BOULEVARD / MEDIAN PROJECT INCREASE THE NUMBER OF VEHICULAR COLLISIONS ON OCTAVIA? YES IT DID. HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN THAT?
7. Support neighborhood vitality by creating a more inviting and accommodating public realm.
BY PUTTING IN A MEDIAN AND PLANTING TREES? SO, LET’S TAX AMERICA, CALIFORNIA, AND SAN FRANCISCO TO CREATE A “REALM” ON 3000 FEET WORTH OF STREET PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WEALTHY PROPERTY OWNERS AND PRIVATE SCHOOL(S) WHAT ARE ON THE STREET? ALL RIGHT.
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Monday, December 31st, 2012
To the right of this accident scene is Octavia Boulevard.
And to the left, a block away, is Octavia Street.
And in the middle, you’ll see NIMBY Green with a newish Mercedes Benz CLS sitting on top.
Via ciprofloxacin – click to expand
You see, Octavia used to be a regular old street until Redevelopment (a bad idea from the 20th century) and the failed Octavia “Boulevard” experiment (a bad idea from the 21st century) came along.
Anyway. this is what results when “activists” are valued more than traffic engineers…
Tags: 2010, 2011, accident, accidents, Allan, Allan Jacobs, Allan B. Jacobs, architecture, avenue, award, bay area, Berkeley, boulevard, Boulevard Book, Boulevards, bus, california, cameras, car carrier, central, collision, community, community workshop, crash, department of public works, design, Design of Multiway Boulevards, doctor, dpw, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Macdonald, evolution, Fork-Tailed Doctor Killer, freeway, fucking trees, hayes, hayes valley, History, Jacobs, Macdonald, market, mercedes benz, mopm, mother, movement, mta, Multiway, Neighborhood Association, nimby, nimby green, octavia, octavia boulevard, offramp, onramp, patricia walkup, patricia's green, phd, RED LIGHT, Rofé, San Francisco, school, SFMTA, shuttle, signals, silver, street, street design study, students, The Boulevard Book: History, traffic, trees, UC, ucsf, university, university of california, van, workshop, Yodan, Yodan Rofé
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Friday, September 14th, 2012
Check out these recent shots from Nature’s Lantern.
“Freshly cut trees being stacked with more processed chopped trees in piles in the area behind Elk Glen Lake.”
Wow.
The bodies are being stacked like cordwood in Golden Gate Park these days:
Via Nature’s Lantern
“Logging in Golden Gate Park - 9-12-2012
Appears to be Blue Gum Eucalyptus (known for timber and gold rush SF History) and a mix of Pines possibly Monterrey Pines.”
Via Nature’s Lantern
Or an Entmarch, the trees of GGP could use a Lorax or an Entmarch.
Or even an Entmoot, that would be a start…
Tags: 2012, bay area, Blue, Blue Gum Eucalyptus, california, caterpiller, cordwood, Elk Glen, Elk Glen Lake, Entmarch, Entmoot, Eucalyptus, gum, lake, lorax, nature's lantern, San Francisco, tree, trees
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Monday, June 18th, 2012
I’ll tell you, what I notice is not the attractiva on the orange, fully-loaded Public Bike from Public Bikes, but the illegally-parked, aging BMW 3-series convertible.
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But that’s just me.
Hey, who do you think the SFMTA outreached when they wanted to focus-group the plan to put in more unnecessary trees on Masonic for $20,000,000 from Uncle Sucker and/or the taxpayers of the State of California? Do you think it was the users of Masonic Street or the people, like the BMW owner, who live next to it? That’s right, the SFMTA only focus-grouped the nearby residents of Masonic Avenue.
Is that the correct way to do things, SFMTA?
I don’t think it is.
Oh well.
Anyway, cyclists should continue to feel free to use the excessively-wide sidewalks of Masonic, depending on conditions, despite any peer pressure they might feel from governmentally-produced garbage such as this.
Tags: 2012, bay area, bicycles, bike, bikes, bmw, california, citation, cyclist, cyclists, DPT, driveway, garage, masonic, mta, orange, parked, San Francisco, SFMTA, sidwalk, ticket, trees
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Monday, June 18th, 2012
Where will the Lord’s Resistance Army turn up next?
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Tags: 2012, africa, african, bay area, billboard, california, county, freeway, graffiti, grass, hill, i-80, i80, kony, kony 2012, Lord's Resistance Army, lra, San Francisco, Solano, trees, uganda, vegetation, Video, weeds, youtube
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
Here’s one of them.
Single rainbow, all the way:
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Tags: 2012, bay area, Blue, california, colors, golden gate park, green, Heidelberg Hill, Indigo, orange, rainbow, rainbows, red, roygbiv, San Francisco, tree, trees, violet, yellow
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Monday, May 21st, 2012
Aren’t the sidewalks of Divisadero too wide already? Yes.
And then they widened the useless median strip a few years back.
And then the Mojo Bicycle Cafe put in a parklet.
And then they put overhanging shrubbery that takes up the space where your head is supposed to go.
See?
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Oh well.
Tags: 2012, bay area, bikes, bus, california, divisadero, hayes, median, Mojo Bicycle Cafe, Mojo Bicycle Cafe Parklet, Mojo Cafe, overhanging, parklet, San Francisco, shrubbery, street, trees
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
The Truffula Trees offered at IHOP’s brand new Lorax’s Breakfast special are actually broccoli, so consider yourself warned.
But the creamed spinach to make the eggs green, well that’s a genius move:
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See you there!
Tags: 2012, bay area, breakfast, broccoli, california, dr suess, eggs, families, film, fun, green, green eggs and ham, ihop, international house of pancakes, jam, kids, lorax, lorax's breakfast, movie, pnacakes, San Francisco, tree, trees, Truffula, Truffula Trees
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
So, yes, January is a very early time to see cherry trees start to blossom but what you’re actually seeing are plum trees.
Now both kinds of trees are pretty much the same thing, so no biggee, but plums come out earlier than cherries – global warming doesn’t have anything to do with that.
Oh, here’s what they look like, rather a bit more pink than cherry, in my experience.
Near Clay and Davis, Financial District:
And here’s a nice shot from Flickr:
Via Son/Jon
Tags: 2010, 2011, 2012, april, balmy, bay area, bloom, blooming, blossom, blossoms, california, cherry, Cherry Blossoms, climate change, day, February, Festival, flowers, global warming, golden gate park, ground, groundhog, hanami, hog, january, Japanese, japantown, march, plum, plum blossoms, post, sakura, San Francisco, spring, street, tree, trees, warm, winter
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