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California Department of Transportation

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Zombies to Plunder San Francisco, Traffic Sign Warns

    Rudeen Monte​Hacking electronic road signs so that they display warnings of impending zombie invasions has become something of a national pastime. Such pranks have taken place in Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, and probably elsewhere. (Our brains remain safely in our sk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Hot Dogs Stink, S.F. HuffPo's Does Food, and Willie Brown Eats in the Mission

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Looking for the hot dog cart near AT&T park? Come back after July 27. Currently the Department of Public Works is playing its lovely waiting game with Gorilla Pete's, the hot dog vendor that had been park ... More >>

  • News

    June 22, 2011

    In Transit: From S.F. to L.A. via Public Transportation

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Looking for the hot dog cart near AT&T park? Come back after July 27. Currently the Department of Public Works is playing its lovely waiting game with Gorilla Pete's, the hot dog vendor that had been park ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    'Girafa' Pleads Guilty to San Jose Graffiti Charges, Fined $38,000

    A guilty conscience?​San Francisco resident Steven Free, known by his graffiti writer's moniker of "Girafa," has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of felony and misdemeanor vandalism in San Jose, agreeing to pay $38,000 in fines.San Jose cops arrested Free in 2009 on 10 felony vandalism counts. As ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2011

    Most BART Riders Escape Tickets for Eating and Drinking

    A guilty conscience?​San Francisco resident Steven Free, known by his graffiti writer's moniker of "Girafa," has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of felony and misdemeanor vandalism in San Jose, agreeing to pay $38,000 in fines.San Jose cops arrested Free in 2009 on 10 felony vandalism counts. As ... More >>

  • News

    January 5, 2011

    Jerry Brown Should Get Rid of Schwarzenegger's Debt Deals

    A guilty conscience?​San Francisco resident Steven Free, known by his graffiti writer's moniker of "Girafa," has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of felony and misdemeanor vandalism in San Jose, agreeing to pay $38,000 in fines.San Jose cops arrested Free in 2009 on 10 felony vandalism counts. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    San Francycle: The Bike Coalition's Big Plans for 2011

    ​Happy New Year! And quite a year it's been for bicycles. Between all the new stripes and racks and parklets, we've suddenly catapulted into the future of cycling. Well, maybe not the future, since Europe is several decades ahead of us. Maybe just less of the past. But there's still plenty of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Doyle Drive's Goofy Privatization Deal Stalled By Judge

    Will Jerry Brown stop the fiscal insanity? ​A judge Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order halting Caltrans from signing a finance deal that would let a foreign consortium take over construction and maintenance of part of the Doyle Drive project in the Presidio.This marks the second time i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Congestion Pricing Showdown: Assemblyman Jerry Hill To Address San Francisco Supes

    Seriously, take Caltrain. You're allowed to drink coffee and everything. ​San Francisco's idea to charge motorists $6 a day to enter or exit the city's southern border has spurred what could only be labeled a congestion pricing pissing contest. Peninsula officials are huffing that they'll impose a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Homeless Sex Offender Dies; Van Amasses Tickets

    Thomas Craig​While passing the Caltrain station earlier this week, one of the men we'd interviewed for our story on homeless sex offenders last year flagged us down. He'd said no one had seen Thomas Craig, another one of our sources in the story, for several weeks. Now the Ford Windstar that Craig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    San Francycle: How SF's Impending Bikeshare Will Work

    ​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    San Francycle: Can Treat Street Become Mission Bay's Bike Superhighway?

    ​ First, it was a stinky marsh. Then it was a railroad. Now, Treat Street faces a new lease on life with a vision to transform it from a dilapidated, weirdly diagonal alleyway into a sparkling green bike corridor. It would be a pretty amazing accomplishment: a smooth path that curves up from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    San Mateo Bridge Cracked -- Traffic Nightmare Ensues

    ​The San Mateo Bridge is a span most locals don't invest much thought in. Maybe they will now, however. A 10-inch crack on a steel beam beneath the roadway was uncovered by crews during an inspection last night, necessitating the closure of a westbound lane this morning during an emergency fix. Co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Google Bike Directions Fail: Quickest Route from Palo Alto to San Francisco Is 150 Turns?

    Bicycling to Palo Alto may not be easy via Google directions​We noted back in March, when Google's much-anticipated bicycle-directions function first launched, that the program had some glitches. (Among them was its apparent ignorance, in certain cases, of the famous San Francisco hill-avoiding bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Golden State Warriors' Bay Bridge Logo Arriving This Week From China

    For the bridge, it's a great time out...​How overdue is the erection of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge? Well, the Golden State Warriors couldn't wait for the span to actually exist before adopting it as their new logo. With portions of the signature tower sections set to arrive in Oakland tomo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Muni's Forcing You to Get a Clipper Card. Get One Tomorrow For Free.

    ​With the curtailment of the paper Fast Pass the day after Halloween, Muni is prodding its frequent riders into the 21st century. They haven't yet perfected the George Jetson flying car that transforms into a briefcase -- but they have created Clipper, the expensively rebranded TransLink card that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Did Moving Rare Franciscan Manzanita Actually Cost City Any Money?

    © California Academy of SciencesWho picked up the check? ​Yesterday we noted that the $175,000 cost cited by the Chronicle for moving the only known wild Franciscan Manzanita out of the path of the Doyle Drive highway project was more than twice the price tag we were told in January. Our numerous ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Baylinks: Chocolate, Spilled Booze, & Star Wars

    ​Why does the Millbrae BART station smell like chocolate and not, well, a BART station? [SFAppeal]Is the price of a Caltrain ticket about to go up? [Streetsblog]Get your culture on (free!) at the Divisadero Art Walk tonight. [Haighteration]Woman goes on a rampage and wrecks Richmond Delano's liquo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Ballpark-Area Homeless Eagerly Await Baseball Opening Day

    Joe EskenaziJim McQuown looks forward to snapping up beer cans and empty bottles near AT&T Park​It turns out you don't need a home to enjoy a home game. Friday's opening day at AT&T Park transforms Mission Bay from a banal realm of wide streets and boxy condos resembling something you'd fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Engineers Baffled By Claims Bay Bridge Suffering From 75-Year-Old Design Flaw

    Amazing scenes were witnessed today...​A recent article in the Examiner trumpeted a claim that ought to make every San Francisco commuter of the past 75 years grateful he didn't end up unexpectedly swimming to work: "Bay Bridge Eyebar Woes Date To 1930s." But, reading the article, the premise appe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Does This Giraffe Look Guilty? Net Tightens Around Renowned S.F. Graffiti Artist 'Girafa'

    Late last month, San Jose cops made an announcement that reverberated like a shock wave through the ranks of local graffiti fans. Police in the South Bay metropolis believed they had unmasked the prominent artist-vandal known as "Girafa," a graffiti "writer" -- as such auteurs prefer to be called -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Could Discovery of 'Extinct' Plant Toss Monkey Wrench Into Doyle Drive Rebuild?

    © California Academy of SciencesThe Franciscan Manzanita​The other day we reported on the apparent discovery of a Franciscan Manzanita in the Presidio -- the first wild specimen of the native San Franciscan plant spotted since 1947. But, in a development that appears to be ironic -- without any m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Cement Contractors Baffled By Muni's Delays on N-Judah Line Fix

    Jim Herd​Among San Francisco neighborhoods, the Outer Sunset is high on the list of places you could conceivably land a spaceship with no one noticing. And yet denizens of the area certainly noticed that Muni's weekend repairs to the N-Judah rails were not confined to the weekend -- hence they wer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Bridge Expert: I'll Still Drive Bay Bridge -- But Break Is Baffling

    ​Whenever something goes wrong with a bridge here or elsewhere, one of the first people we call is Mark Ketchum -- one of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California's designated experts on bridges. So, for what it's worth, Ketchum said he will unhesitatingly drive his car across t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

    Happier times. Faster, too.​ Bridge! Bridge! More Bridge! Troubled bridge over water! Didja hear about the bridge? Sigh. Take a news quiz. 1. The city of San Francisco agreed to cough up $250,000 regarding a lawsuit stemming from a 2005 spill in which perhaps 54,000 gallons of what was leaked into ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    Today Only: Show Your BART Ticket, and Score a Busted Bay Bridge Dog from Zog's

    M. BrodySomething tells us they'll run out long before the bridge reopens.​So maybe Caltrans rushed it a little with that Labor Day fix. Forced onto BART with the teeming hordes? Emerge from your sardine can at Montgomery station, walk over to the little yellow stand huddled near the One Post ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Upscale Italian Deli Expected to Open in SOMA Next Month

    ​An Italian deli and food market with upscale aspirations is slated to open on Townsend near Caltrain early next month. Starting August 10, D'Urso Italian Delicatessen (236 Townsend at Fourth St.) will serve up breakfast and lunch sandwiches featuring a mix of imported and domestic meats and ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    ​An Italian deli and food market with upscale aspirations is slated to open on Townsend near Caltrain early next month. Starting August 10, D'Urso Italian Delicatessen (236 Townsend at Fourth St.) will serve up breakfast and lunch sandwiches featuring a mix of imported and domestic meats and ... More >>

  • News

    September 10, 2008

    Become a San Francisco Dog Poop Detective

    ​An Italian deli and food market with upscale aspirations is slated to open on Townsend near Caltrain early next month. Starting August 10, D'Urso Italian Delicatessen (236 Townsend at Fourth St.) will serve up breakfast and lunch sandwiches featuring a mix of imported and domestic meats and ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2008

    Free Parking for Sale

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Critical Mass Today at 6 p.m. -- Hide Your Car!

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    SF Weekly Letters

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, March 15, 2006

  • News

    March 8, 2006

    Missed Connection

    The multiuse Transbay Terminal project may have shrunk into a really expensive bus station

  • News

    February 1, 2006

    Clang, Clang, Clang Went the New Subway

    The billion-dollar Central Subway transportation plan may collapse under its own expanding weight

  • Dining

    September 21, 2005

    The Deep Divide

    A San Francisco pizza that's geared to the discerning hipster palate

  • News

    November 17, 2004

    Weekly Obsessions

    Our new column goes from H. Brown's drinking to Halo 2. And beyond.

  • News

    June 30, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, June 30, 2004

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Week of Wednesday, June 30, 2004

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2003

    Ghost Story

    A new Christmas Carol chorus

  • Music

    March 6, 2002

    Longitudes and latitudes

    Asian directions in sound; heavenly lawlessness.

  • News

    April 4, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from April 4, 2001

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best City Transportation Improvement

    Valencia Street Bike Lane

  • Calendar

    January 13, 1999

    Recurring Dream

    Valencia Street Bike Lane

  • News

    February 4, 1998

    Dog Bites

    Valencia Street Bike Lane

  • News

    October 15, 1997

    Letters

    Valencia Street Bike Lane

  • News

    April 30, 1997

    Letters

    Valencia Street Bike Lane

  • Calendar

    April 16, 1997

    The Grid

    Valencia Street Bike Lane

  • News

    December 13, 1995

    Letters

    Valencia Street Bike Lane

  • News

    November 29, 1995

    Clockers

    Residents of a downtown loft tell you where to get off

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