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    April 29, 2011

    San Francycle: Get Your Fixie Fix

    ​Fixies! Dangerous and insane, right? Well, yes, but only if you don't know how to ride them. In the right hands (and legs), a fixed-gear bike is graceful and glorious.Fixed-gear enthusiasts are a proud bunch. We'll never forget the first time we walked into Mission Bikes and chatted with Jefferso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    San Francycle: What Can Cycletracks Bike Data App Tell Us About S.F. Cycling Habits One Year Later?

    ​When you ride your bike, you ride with Billy Charlton. He's the deputy director for technology services at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (a city agency that's sort of like Muni's cousin, twice removed), and he oversees Cycletracks. Remember Cycletracks? It's an iPhone/Androi ... More >>

  • News

    January 5, 2011

    Jerry Brown Should Get Rid of Schwarzenegger's Debt Deals

    ​When you ride your bike, you ride with Billy Charlton. He's the deputy director for technology services at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (a city agency that's sort of like Muni's cousin, twice removed), and he oversees Cycletracks. Remember Cycletracks? It's an iPhone/Androi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Doyle Drive Privatization Deal Approved by Judge

    http://woodrowwilson.xanga.comIs this Caltrans' next big expenditure? ​Caltrans today rushed to sign a contract to fund a section of a new Golden Gate Bridge off-ramp in the Presidio with the help of foreign investors. The move came immediately after a judge lifted a restraining order blocking the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Franciscan Manzanita, Once Thought Extinct, On Way to Becoming 'Endangered'

    © California Academy of SciencesThe Franciscan Manzanita: Once 'extinct,' now 'endangered'? ​Usually, a species has to be endangered before it goes extinct. Not the Franciscan Manzanita. It went extinct -- and now it may become endangered. Readers may recall the discovery last year of a Francisca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2010

    S.F. Taxpayer-Funded Poll Reveals S.F. Taxpayers Don't Want to Pay Taxes

    San Francisco voters say 'Bah Humbug' to new taxes, poll claims...​A poll commissioned by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority revealed that city voters are in no mood to pay the taxes the Board of Supervisors will likely today move to place on the ballot -- where voters will eventual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    City Didn't Pick Up Tab For Moving Rare Franciscan Manzanita

    © California Academy of ScienceAin't our money...​Earlier this week, the Chronicle reported that the city paid the princely sum of $175,000 to transport the only known wild specimen of the Franciscan Manzanita out of the Doyle Drive highway project's path and to an undisclosed location. Yesterday ... 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 2, 2010

    Schwarzenegger Fires State Official Protesting $1.4 Billion Presidio Spending Scheme

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has dealt harshly with those opposing his cockamamie fiscal schemes...​For those wondering whether California is on its way to becoming Greece, witness an alarming pattern in which the governor comes up with ways to plunge the state even further into debt, then fires pub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    iBike -- New App Helps Users Write City's Bike Routes

    ​As San Francisco breathlessly awaits the day when Judge Peter J. Busch lifts the court  injunction that has prevented the city from installing amenities for cyclists, news pops up that two-wheeled San Franciscans' lives are improving, despite the ban on bike lanes.The judge had asked for arg ... More >>

  • News

    September 2, 2009

    Noe Valley and Mission residents say Google shuttles are evil

    ​As San Francisco breathlessly awaits the day when Judge Peter J. Busch lifts the court  injunction that has prevented the city from installing amenities for cyclists, news pops up that two-wheeled San Franciscans' lives are improving, despite the ban on bike lanes.The judge had asked for arg ... More >>

  • News

    May 14, 2008

    For Whom the Bridge Tolls

    Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

  • News

    March 8, 2006

    Missed Connection

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

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