Dianne Yee
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Go Figueroa
community meeting on Tuesday, April 9th, 5:30-8pm.come hear about all the good things planned for Figueroa! share your ideas on how you’d like the quality of life on the corridor to improve.
**look closely at the conceptual rendering. there’s an ADA ramp to a green bike alert box to ADA ramp on the bus island. nifty.
This three-day exploration of food, farming and films aims to celebrate and challenge our ideas about the food system. You can attend just one film
or buy a festival pass for all sixfestival passes are sold out. Held at the Roxie Theatre, the festival is co-sponsored by Three Squares and Bi-Rite Market. The opening celebration, Friday night at Four Barrel, features food by Delfina, Jardiniere and more.via spur.
this weekend (friday 29.04–sunday 31.04) at the Roxie in the Mission, SF.
James Newman by Wilis Johnson
Check out Wilis’ new blog - Photos by Wilis, with old gems like this one of James Newman. Still one of my favorite Macaframa parts, BTW.Gary Richards of Mercury News writes:
These companies pay for them and use them as a perk to entice workers who live elsewhere in the Bay Area. Google operates a fleet of about 95 private buses serving 35 routes in seven counties that provide employees free transportation to their Mountain View headquarters. Most have Wi-Fi, allowing employees to work en route.
Google recently reduced the number of vehicles it is putting on the road by replacing a number of buses that seat 49 passengers with 31 double-decker buses that can seat 71. If Google were a public transit agency, it would be the seventh-largest bus operator in the Bay Area, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Google and Genentech alone carry roughly 8,000 riders a day and, along with other companies, save 14 million miles a year in driving. But not everyone is excited about them.
new screens showing the real-time schedule of BART trains, without entering the gates and descending into the platforms. and semi-new transit and surrounding area maps. at 12th st. station in oakland.
BART PD seeks owners to ID stolen bikes. 19.02.13.
BART has posted photographs of the recovered bicycles and frames so theft victims have access to identify their stolen property. In order to claim their property, owners must provide either a case number from a theft report, or other proof it belongs to them. Examples of such proof would be a receipt/proof of purchase which shows the serial number, or other identifiable marks unique to the bicycle. If you recognize the bicycle, frame or other parts as yours telephone the BART Police Investigations Unit at (510) 464-7040.
Historical Map: Stuttgart VVS Map, circa 2000
Without a doubt, this has to be one of my favourite transit maps ever. As far as I know, this isometric approach is unique and it is staggeringly effective. Everything is beautifully labelled, and lovely icons highlight important sites like the zoo, museums and sports stadiums. Unfortunately, this stunning map has since been replaced by a far more conventional diagram — a great loss in my opinion…
Our rating: Undeniably brilliant. 5 stars.
(Source: Stuttgart City Information Site)
- opposition to big numbers attached to a dollar sign
I woke up this morning to a news report that the 15% of Californians would likely vote against the water bond based on the $11.1 billion price tag, though a majority would be willing to vote for a cheaper bond.
Likewise the study found a majority of Californians now oppose the $58 billion California High-Speed Rail project.
Both the water project and the High-speed rail line don’t seem that expensive to me given the importance of safe, clean drinking water and the alternative to high-speed rail is three times as much on roads that still couldn’t carry the capacity.
And that’s the thing that gets a lot of the opposition is about big numbers and not the actual merits, relative costs and the scale of these mega-projects.
High-speed rail service to Disneyland will be the end result of hundreds of interconnected projects. Many are already underway and will start paying off in other ways long before the last spike is driven.
Along the Peninsula, HSR will share the Caltrain corridor and this week the CA High-Speed Rail Authority approved its share of electrification funding.
The old diesel trains could be ditched by 2019 in favor of all-electric propulsion according to Caltrain’s Jayme Ackemann. …
Caltrain modernization, which boasts a cleaner approach to travel, will arrive a decade before high-speed rail service to Los Angeles becomes a reality.
Maybe we just need to reframe the costs for statewide projects. $0.058 trillion looks a lot smaller than $58 billion.
L.A. rush hour, 1929 style?
Wilshire and Western on Feb. 10, 1929. Two years later, real estate developer Henry de Roulet, whose office is in the center of the photo, would build the Wiltern Theater and Pellisser Building at the intersection.
At the time, he called it one of the busiest corners in the world.
Photo: Los Angeles Times file
Jagtvej, Copenhagen, Denmark and King Edward Avenue, Vancouver, BC. Click the arrow on the side of the photo to compare. Click those first sentence links for the google streetviews to have a good look around.
Then let’s talk about the transportation hierarchy, rhetoric and reality.
Tree People video: Capture the Rain and Rebuild the Economy: It Can Happen Here!
This fun animation shows how reconnecting trees to our city’s watersheds is one of the fastest ways to create lasting jobs while rebuilding local economies and preparing our communities to thrive and survive increasing threats of severe weather.
via the global arc.
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three years later…
does all this dooring not point to a need to redesign bike lanes already?? do I need to do a quantitive academic study on dooring??!
DON’T RUN RED LIGHTS.
you hurt pretty girls on their bikes. 40th/telegraph like 25mins ago.I didn’t see it happen, just this. OPD are there now. The girl with the orange hair was driving, ran a red light from what I heard someone say. Hit a girl on a bike. She’s the one sitting with black jeans, face blocked by the guy.
We found this great edit of the Wolfpack Hustle Marathon Crash — peep it here. What’s your favorite part?
probably the only thing i’d go to LA for.
my road bike’s parked outside on the bike rack outside of my work.
a little girl just a couple inches taller than my seat is playing with it. Holding onto a pedal and turning it round and round backwards. It’s my mixte, so the top tube(s) is short and she tries to get on my bike. But that doesn’t quite work so she returns to turning the pedals round and round and round.
finally she relented to her mom and they continued on their way.
**wish I had my cell phone in my pocket at the time to take a picture
Back in 2012, San Francisco dance company ODC premiered “Transit,” choreographer KT Nelson’s transit-themed modern dance piece that featured bike sculptures by San Francisco artist Max Chen. Throughout the piece, the dancers interact with the sculptures, which range from a rideable park bench to a two person café table bicycle.
A follow-up dance, “Transit: Next Stop” is part of the ongoing ODC/Dance Downtown performance series at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, through March 24, 2013. Chen talks about his artwork and his involvement in the “Transit” project in this interview with SF Appeal.
two-person café table bicycle??!!
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- Jul 27, 12March 11, 1982: Mayor Dianne Feinstein accepts Atari’s donation to Save the Cable Cars, and has to talk to Pac-man.
more photos: Great moment in Cable Cars. sfgate, 26.07.12. - Jul 30, 12Brian Barnelco works on a 600-foot panoramic painting called, "The Systems Mural Project," near 7th and Townsend streets on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011 in San Francisco, Calif. Photo: Russell Yip.
story at sfgate, 02.09.11. - May 18, 12brooklyn bridge, by stacie. 2010.Yesterday I rode a bike all over Manhattan… and it was wonderful.
You can bike anywhere in this city
—starsforstreetlights, 09.05.2010. - Apr 22, 12if only every mountain biking video was shot like this.nature's rollercoaster.only you're in control.
- Oct 16, 11
saturday, 15.10.11. 8pm – 1am.Price Center Plaza at UC San Diego campus. (outdoor stage)free for all university students with valid student ID.
08:00 - 08:50 : JAWSOMO //Techno
08:50 - 09:40 : Vjjay //Nu-Disco
09:40 - 10:30 : JClarneaux //Dutch House
10:30 - 11:20 : Pasternak //House / Electro
11:20 - 12:10 : JUN //Kaskade Tribute
12:10 - 01:00 : BDN //Dubstep / Electro - Oct 03, 11
The fountain in Balboa Park→Hillcrest→North Park→South Park→Golden Hill→Downtown/Gaslamp→HORTON PLAZA CAR PARKING GARAGE *I am not kidding*→Airport→Point Loma→Ocean Beach→OB Pier→Mission Bay→Mission Beach→Boardwalk→Pacific Beach→Point Loma→back around Mission Bay→Old Town→up friggin’ Washington St. hill (Mission Hills)→University/Park (Hillcrest)→back to the Fountain.
40 miles. FYEAH.
30.09.11.more descriptive post later.
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