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Ridiculous, Mostly Unused San Francisco PedMount News Racks Repurposed as...
TweetRemember what newpaper racks used to look like? Sure you do, because they’re all over the less-populated parts of town. But the Great PedMount Invasion of the Aughts this past decade is firmly...
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Why I Sometimes Ride My Bike on the Sidewalks of Divisadero, and Why You...
TweetWell the shovel-ready stimulus project on the Div Co (Divisidero Corridor) is nearing completion. Do you see the trees in the widened median and the old-tyme streetlight tops that go from the NoPA...
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Divisadero Streetscape Improvements Kick Off – Cafe Mojo Parklet Officially...
TweetHere’s the scene this morning at the official ceremony kicking off all the Divisadero Streetscape Improvements and the Cafe Mojo Parklet at 639 Divisidero betwixt Hayes and Grove. BIKE NOPA has...
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Here’s What the Horrible 5-Yard Wide Median on Cesar Chavez Will Look Like
TweetIf trees are so great and if a five-yard-wide median is such an improvement, why stop there? Why not have more trees in the middle of Cesar Chavez? Why not have a 30-foot-wide median instead? But...
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The Best Use for Those Green “Street Furniture” News Racks – Repurposed as...
TweetPart of the reason that these green news racks replaced the regular racks we used to have was that a former Mayor of San Francisco didn’t like what was said about him in the media. And another...
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Yalie NIMBY Outed by Uptown Almanac after SFPD Shuts Down 4 Loko Party in...
TweetUptown Almanac‘s Kevin Montgomery is all steamed this AM about an Eli who had the popo shut down* our recent Four Loko party in Dolores Park. Learn about Crackdown Deja Vu all over again at...
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Open House on September 12th for Proposed Million-Square-Foot CPMC Hospital...
TweetHey, wouldn’t you just looooooove having a million-square-foot hospital rising up from 1101 Van Ness? I don’t know. There’s lots to consider, of course. Get up to speed with Curbed SF and the...
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MTB Legend Gary Fisher Calls for Ouster of Ed Lee – The Mayor’s Misstep on...
Tweet[UPDATE: It begins. The lily-white urbanists vent against Asian-American optometrists on Yelp. JUST ONE STAR FOR YOU, DR HIURA! GOOD DAY TO YOU, SIR!] Let’s see if I can pay off on the headline...
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SFGov Puts a Pedestrian “Bulb-Out” at an Intersection Where Peds Already...
TweetI’ll tell you, pedestrian safety means pedestrian safety. But “pedestrian rights” means the opposite, it means letting peds go around willy-nilly and getting themselves killed. Anyway, if you want...
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Appalling Corner Cutting from the Vaunted SFMTA: Newly-Installed Clean-Sheet...
Tweet[All right, a little background. Who’s been in charge of the crosswalk in front of City Hall on Polk? IDK, somebody in SFGov, like the SFMTA, or an agency from before the SFMTA, or DPW, or, no...
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This Double-Parked Moving Van is a Preview of the Coming “Improved” Masonic...
TweetThere are proper ways of moving furniture into and out of a place on Masonic, but this method… …isn’t one of them. Dudes were here for a good long time on a relatively quiet Saturday afternoon. Of...
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Our Sad-Sack SFMTA, a Part of the SFGov, Violates SF’s Sign Posting Rules to...
TweetHere are the rules you have to obey. And now here comes our SFMTA to remind you how great the SFMTA is: I’ll tell you, I’m meh about this project for the 3000 feet of Masonic betwixt Fell and...
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Propaganda Watch: Masonic Avenue “Streetscape” Project Roundup
TweetWell, here’s the news: $26 million plan to slow speeding traffic on SF’s Masonic Avenue This piece is surprisingly evenhanded. Hey, does any other government agency in Frisco spend so much time...
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Here It Is, a New Bike Lane for the Vaunted SFMTA “Streetscape”“Improvement”...
TweetHere’s the west side of Masonic betwixt Hayes and Grove these days: This doesn’t seem like much, this doesn’t seem like much of a “transformation” of this windswept corridor: Are old people going...
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The Great Median of Masonic is Upon Us
TweetI don’t exactly agree with those who wanted this new median, but nobody asked me. The relatively new one on nearby Divisidero hasn’t worked out.
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Here It Is: Your New, Lower Capacity Masonic Avenue, with a Median and Twee...
Tweet(We’re gonna rock on down to ‘Sonic Avenue, and then we’ll take it higher.) Looking north from Hayes. The medians will end up with trees, and looks like a few easier-to-see traffic signals as...
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The Safety Trees of Masonic – Somehow These New Median Trees from the SFMTA...
TweetOn it goes, the changes at the 3000 feet of Masonic north of Fell:
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Test Riding the New and “Improved” Masonic Boulevard – It’s Not Going to be a...
TweetHere you go, heading south, in the downhill direction – you’ve got your new median on the left, your downsized two lanes of traffic, your removed bus stops (so MUNI will just stop in traffic in...
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Our US Postal Service Gets an Early Start with Parking in the New Bike Lanes...
TweetAnd this lengthy project isn’t even done yet: Where will these trucks park after completion? – The slow lane, leaving just one for MUNI and cars? – The slightly elevated bike lane, as seen? – The...
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