Tag: sanfrancisco

Bike Lanes


Augmented reality again. Similar to that projected pedestrian crossing. The system projects a virtual bike lane (using lasers!) on the ground around the cyclists, providing drivers with a recognizable boundary they can easily avoid.
2013-05-11: this is the kind of stuff needing to be shoved down the throats of the many NIMBY assholes around town.

NYC DOT found that protected bikeways had a significant positive impact on local business strength. After the construction of a protected bicycle lane on 9th Avenue, local businesses saw a 49% increase in retail sales.

2016-09-21: I approve

shadowy activists, who seem to have a warehouse of orange cones, have been erecting protected lanes around San Francisco that last for brief periods before they (or someone else) remove them. The group joins others nationwide to push for safe roads with guerrilla actions, including organizations in New York, Boston, and Portland.

2023-03-11: NYPD right of way regulations

  1. Marked NYPD vehicles
  2. Unmarked NYPD vehicles
  3. Vehicles with a Thin Blue Line flag bumper sticker
  4. A dumpster with the Punisher logo on it
  5. Film crews for Blue Bloods
  6. Vehicles whose owner’s cousin used to work for the city (any city is fine)
  7. Amazon delivery trucks
  8. Pedestrians walking against traffic
  9. Any double-parked motorized vehicle
  10. Regular film crews

50. Cyclists

Mission Idiots

New graffiti on the sidewalk at 18th and Dolores claims nothing short of “Mission Exploitation” by Google employees. A decade ago, the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project posted flyers urging Valencia Street’s self-styled “artists” to vandalize luxury cars. Some did. In 2008, most Web 2.0 workers aren’t rich enough to draw the righteous anger of their slightly-less-privileged neighbors. Except for Googlers who dare move into the city’s youth-culture ghetto between Cesar Chavez and Market. Urban hipsters who have art degrees can wash my car.

heh

Money? What Money?

SFluxe’s message to the new rich of Silicon Valley — we all know you’re rich, so stop pretending you’re not. It’s annoying. Your friends know you’re rich, your neighbors know you’re rich, your employees like totally know you’re rich. We have been on to you from the beginning. So please do us all a big service, stop pretending and start spending. Conspicuously would be great, thank you. The bigger the better, big and tacky, like Trump-ugly big, okay?

completely retarded. a “luxury” blog begging entrepreneurs to spend more, presumably so that the rag has something to write about.

Polk Gulch

Some folk feel that the cleanup of the “TenderNob” district has killed the few good seedy bars left. The Hemlock Tavern replaced the Giraffe, Reflections is now Vertigo, and the Polk Gulch Saloon is now Lush Lounge. But it doesn’t take much of a walk to see that nothing has changed. They are all the same dark places. They’re all lit only by red bulbs that make it hard to focus, and the stoner on stage can still get 4 bars into the his song before realizing he’s in the wrong key.

sounds like the places to go in sf

Ground Conditions

In an image that makes me want to cry it’s so cool, the basements of some 19th-century San Francisco homes weren’t basements at all… they were the hulls of lost ships. “As late as Jan 1857,” we read, “old hulks still obstructed the harbor while others had been overtaken by the bayward march of the city front and formed basements or cellars to tenements built on their decks. Even now [1888] remains of the vessels are found under the filled foundations of houses.

parts of sf are built on sunken ships. go into an embarcadero basement and you may be in one.