Posts Tagged ‘trucks’
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
I don’t know, if I wanted to create gridlock in SoMA / Financial / Union Square, I think I’d hire some jackasses to drive “mobile billboards” around the block and around the block all day long.
“Blocking the box” yesterday with a mobile billboard truck in the middle of the intersection of 3rd Street and Market:
“Hey everybody! Stop everything and look at me!”
Reverse angle – now the driver is only blocking one lane of 3rd Street:
Note the Washington state license plates.
And here’s the result of the advertising trucks. Gridlock:
Oh well.
“Blocking the box” is illegal these days, but the SFPD doesn’t really hand out tickets for that, so have at it.
Now I’ll tell you, Lyft taxi, a service that you just might like, isn’t legal, but mobile billboards, a “service” that you don’t like, are legal, more or less.
Isn’t it ironic?
Don’t cha think?
I’m just sayin’
Tags: ads, advertising, billboard, billboards, block the box, blocking the box, bus, citation, DPT, drivers, egnyte, gridlock, illegal, legal, license, lyft, Mobile Billboard, mobile billboards, Muni, plate, plates, rolling, service, SFMTA, SFPD, state, taxi, ticket, traffic, truck, trucks, Washington
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
This here is the flyer posted on a street in the “West Panhandle” area last month by the more-or-less anti-SF “PRO-SF” Homeowners Association.
Well, a slightly modified, Run Ed Run version – don’t click to expand
And this here is this month, on the same block, the very short block where the leader of PRO-SF, a Helen Lovejoy type, a person who worked against the harmless, SFPD-supported Panhandle Bandshell music project back a half-decade ago just happens to reside.
You see that? A quick repaving job, just for one block, just ten weeks before the District Five Supervisor election:
Now, are other blocks getting repaved? Yes, occasionally. But not anywhere close to here. And now the DPW pavers are gone. poof. Who knows when they will return. Next year, next decade? And hey, was this block so bad to begin with? Nope.
Is this process of where to pave when, you know, highly politicized? Yes, pretty much – it’s the same with the SFMTA and other agencies.
Is there a connection between the location of the real estate of a single fussbudget and where DPW decides to repave this week this month this year? I don’t know.
But other Chicago-style, Blagojevichy stuff goes on about town, so why not this too?
Tags: 2012, bay area, Blagojevich, Blagojevichy, california, Christina Olague, d5, district five, ed lee, election, helen, Homeowner's Association., Mayor Ed Lee, panhandle bandshell, panhandle residents association, pro-sf, Progressive, prosf, rod, run ed run, San Francisco, Stanyan Fulton, Supervisor, trucks, west panhandle
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Thursday, July 26th, 2012
I suppose the DPT called the tow trucks out here, where Sutter and Sansome start, because some people accumulated five or more parking citations.
And you can’t put a Denver Boot on a motosickle, I figure.
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Oh well.
Tow them away, boys. MUNI needs its money…
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, citation, cops, DPT, market, meter maid, mta, Muni, officer, police, San Francisco, sansome, SFMTA, SFPD, sutter, tickets, tow, towed, trucks
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
I don’t know, this seemed like a big deal on Saturday but I passed by yesterday and couldn’t even tell that there’d been a fire.
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A $1.3 million place with just one bathroom?
OK fine.
Tags: 1918 Divisadero, 2012, bay area, california, dept., fire, firefighters, firemen, july 14, pacific heights, pine, San Francisco, SFPD, street, trucks
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
I’ll tell you, I haven’t seen anything from the NBC in years and the games of the 2012 Olympiad aren’t going to change anything.
But you, you love the Olympics, so get on out to Civic Center Plaza to watch them on a gigantic screen for free from August 7th through August 11th, why not?
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Let’s hope that area politicians won’t show up at this one to speechify…
Tags: 2012, ad, alcohol, bay area, bus, california, civic center, civic center plaza, games, giant, jumbo tron, jumbotron, London, Muni, nbc, olumpics, Olympiad, Olympic Games, Olympic Games Viewing Party, party, plaza, rabbit ears, rec and park, rpd, San Francisco, television, trucks, TV, Viewing Party, watch
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Sunday, June 10th, 2012
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!
Tags: 23, 23rd, accident, bevan dufty, black, bottom, car, chatanooga, chattanooga, degrees, driver, end, gongregate, google, google bus, grade, hill, hilly, intersection, jim greer, jimgreer, Kongregate, maps, maps car, mountain, nimbies, nimby, nimbys, noe, Noe Valley, permit, presidio, Presidio Trust, prius, rear, red, SFPD, slope, st., steep, street, stuck, Supervisor, toed, too, tow, toyota, truck, trucks, vantool, white
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Just saying.
Oh, the SFMTA wants to ban cars from Market Street for other reasons? O.K.
Oh, there’s a balance of interests here? O.K.
But if you cared about cyclist safety more than anything else, you’d ban buses, streetcars, trucks, taxis, and limos from Market before you’d ban cars.
Montgomery and Market:
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That might not fit with your worldview, but it fits with reality.
Tags: 2012, ban, banned, bay area, bus, buses, california, cyclist, limos, market, Montgomery, mta, Muni, safety, San Francisco, SFMTA, street, streetcars, taxis, transit, trucks
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Sometimes, you’ll see three cars pulled over at the same time. It’s safe to say, “The Grace Period is Now Over.”
Now, what kind of person ignores the giant signs on inbound Market telling them to Turn Right Only?
The kind of person who has a greater tendency to lack a driver license or insurance or registration or registration hardcopy or registration decal. Oh well.
So, that’s life on the Streets of San Francisco these days.
This tike was not happy, that’s for sure:
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What people tend to say to the SFPD is something like:
Well, how am I supposed to get to the Nordstrom?
The answer, involving the mention of Mission Street or Folsom, well that strikes our visitors as craaaaaazy.
So they conclude, if they hadn’t already, that it’s a hassle to drive about SoMA and Union Square and the FiDi.
Which it is.
And some of them vow to never come back.
Oh well.
Tags: 10th, 6th, 8th, bummer, car free market, car-free, cars, citation, commercial, cops, corvette, department, dept., DPT, financial, forced, grace, inbound, mandatory, market, market street, meter maids, motorcycle, mta, parking control officers, pco, pco's, peroiod, police, right, San Francisco, sfdpt, SFMTA, SFPD, shopper, shoppers, sixth, soma, stores, street, summer, taxis, tenderloin, ticket, tourists, traffic, trucks, union, union square, vehicles
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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:
Via Luxomedia
Happy Halloween 2011, San Francisco.
See you next year!
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Well, it’s not much yet, but this is the biggest reaction I’ve seen so far to the relatively new Whole Foods outlet at the end of Haight Street near Stanyan.
Do you see this Kramer-esque sign hanging off the back of 1965 Page? It’s new.
See?
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Cf. Cosmo Kramer vs. Kenny Rogers Roasters, Inc.
Now I don’t know what these NIMBYs paid for that sign but I’d imagine something like hundreds of dollars. Most passersby weren’t aware of it, cause of how and where it’s hung. But go to the northeast corner of the parking lot and then look northeast and you’ll be sure to find it. (WF employees were doing just that yesterday afternoon, having a laugh.)
MisssAnthrope49 has the details on YouTube.
And I guess that this is the FaceBook page?
“Whole Foods Inc Bad Neighbor 
” “This page is for those who have unresolved neighborhood noise issues with Whole Foods Markets, Inc. Please share your experience, links, pictures, videos. Invite others, anywhere in the universe. Support your local markets.”
(You don’t have a website yet, NIMBYs?)
Now, I’ll tell you, the parking lot at this Whole Foods fills up with regularity, cause it’s too small. (And that’s just the way “the neighbors” or the Planning Department or somebody wanted it to be. By design.) So I don’t know how the people who wanted a small parking lot have the right to complain about a small parking lot. Anyway, the way Trader Joes Masonic handled the parking issue was to take over parking spaces on the right side of southbound Masonic in partnership with the City. (I mean, first you’ve got to exist, and then you can address the issues what pop up, that’s how you’ve got to do it.)
The parking lot attendants at this particular WF will direct shoppers into non-existent spots in front of the store, you know, in order to pack the largest number of cars into the lot. Of course there are signs telling drivers not to block Stanyan, but nobody pays attention to them.
We’ll just have to wait to see how this one turns out.
In the meantime, meet your new NIMBY neighbors, so far:
Susan Leas Latham
Leda Nevin Aguirre
Holly Edson
Soumyaa Kapil Behrens
Johnson Hor
Ted DeLong
Vanessa Picton
Gabriel Haaland
Kenneth Heikkila
Fran Gentry
Loraine Cruz Cummings
Darlene Polanka
MichelleNoel Welch
Elizabeth Kirchner
Richard Ivanhoe
Dickie Clark
Oh, and here’s something that people actually noticed, back in the day, on Stanyan:
This building on Stanyan can be seen from all over, so it would be a better location to launch an anti-grocery store campaign, IMO.
Oh well.
And nascent NIMBY’s, the time to attack Progress is before the gro sto goes in. I mean, did you expect the parking lot to be empty all the time? Did you expect the food to be teleported in via Wonka-Vision?
Oh well.
To close, here are some palliative cliches from Whole Foods itself:
“Sent: Thu, August 25, 2011 7:02:26 PM
Subject: RE: HVAC at 690 Stanyan Street
Susan,
Whole Foods Market Haight Street store has received your concerns regarding HVAC noise. We take all our neighbors’ concerns and questions seriously and work to accommodate requests whenever and wherever possible. The neighborhood we serve is extremely important to us and we want to be a good community member. We had our HVAC service company come to double check that all the adjustments that we have made the past few months were still up to par . There were only two minor adjustments needed.
While we are within the legal limits for noise required by the city, Whole Foods Market Haight has made many adjustments in response to HVAC inquiries, including:
o We reprogrammed the HVAC system to shut down between 8PM and 8AM to reduce noise when people are home
o We also changed our thermostat settings two degrees lower so the heat would kick on later in the morning
o We installed sound dampening devices on all our rooftop condensing fans
o We had our own acoustic, electric and HVAC engineers come out to test and fine tune our system for noise reduction and ensure we were within our legal limits
o Additionally, we had the Department of Public Health Environmental Services come back out to re-test and ensure we were operating within the legal limits
While the adjustment to any new neighbor may take some time, we truly hope we can peacefully co-exist with our neighbors in the Haight”
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