FELL STREET BLUES: The First Line You Need to Wait in at the SF DMV Can Go...
Your wait at the DMV starts at a desk at the southwest corner of the building. Problem is the line to get in line goes out the building sometimes, and then through the parking lot to Fell and then to...
View ArticleHah! Dough! – Essential Pretzels Served Up During Coronavirus Lockdown 2020...
As always, check the Yelp. And the MSM, and the non-MSM. A recent bill of fare:
View ArticleWaiting in Line to Get Into a Costco on a Friday Afternoon During a...
Here ya go: Updates and Coronavirus Response Updated April 4, 2020 And here’s your 1000-foot line, as seen at Costco #144 is San Francisco, CA on April 3rd, 2020 at about 3:45 PM, almost three hours...
View Article1, 2, 6, 25: Know the Numbers at TRADER JOE’s or At Least at TJ’s #100 atop...
Here’s the new normal: And here are the rules:
View ArticleAbsurdly-Long Wait to Cross Fulton After Pressing the PUSH-TO-CROSS Button...
So how long were these ppl waiting at 22nd and Fulton afore I arrived on the scene? IDK, but I assume that they pushed the button and waited an unexpectedly long time, ’cause Brocephus here went back...
View ArticleDelightful “SF DMV Bot” Will Tell You About Newly-Cancelled Reservation Slots...
TweetFrom here, we see @SFDMVBot. It’s all: “I announce open slots for SF DMV appointments whenever I see them.” Then you race to the portal to see if you’re the first one there. So no three to four...
View ArticleUsing This Example of a Minivan Sailing Through a Red Light on California to...
TweetHere ya go, this is looking southward at California and 12th Avenue. You can see the green light but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything ’cause what matters in California is what the driver...
View ArticleThe Only Thing Worse Than the Line to Get into MARUGAME UDON is the Line to...
TweetSee what I mean? I was already thinking man, that’s a long line, and then I saw where it really starts: All the deets. (Meanwhile, all points north of here at the Stonestown Mall look line scenes...
View ArticleSFMTA Forces Pedestrians to Wait as Pickups Turning Left Get Priority – At...
TweetSo, this truck has priority and then a few seconds later peds may cross: This is similar to the design at masonic O’Farrell / Anza and Masonic, where peds also need to wait at the start of the...
View ArticleThe Lines for UJI TIME DESSERT in Japantown are Out Of Control – Matcha,...
TweetI’ll tell you, in my day back in the 80’s we went to Thrifty for ten-cent ice cream cones, and that was the way we liked it! But these days: “You ever see something on Instagram and think oh I...
View ArticleHow Sad Is It When You Queue Up for the Trader Joe’s Parking Lot Without Even...
TweetDid SFGov plan for this kind of thing to happen? This set-up on Masonic sometimes affects traffic on Bush. I’ve never seen it back up to Euclid for very long though – seems that’s the natural...
View ArticleIf You Live in SF, You and Your Fam Can Visit the Academy of Sciences for...
TweetOnce again, it’s time for NEIGHBORHOOD FREE WEEKENDS at our CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES courtesy of TARGET Stores. Of course there are other days you can visit this place for free, but the...
View ArticleMother of All Double Parkers: The Super Pretzel Truck – Blocking Outbound...
TweetIf I were the Super Pretzel pushcart people on Market at the cable car turnaround, I’d push these carts somewhere else before the lengthy loading and unloading process: Just saying… But these...
View ArticleA Few Issues with the New Traffic Signals on Masonic Paid for (and Influenced...
TweetGet up to speed here and here. I passed by O’Farrell and Masonic a couple times the other day, so I’m noting what I noticed. This pedestrian appeared to become irate both at the unorthodox delay...
View ArticleUh, Did Target Stores Pay the DPW $250,000 to Install Traffic Lights That...
TweetMmmm… Here’s my beef from yesterday about the newish traffic light scheme at Masonic and O’Farrell. But where did this scheme come from? Oh, here we go - DPW Contract No. 2108J: It’s all: “The...
View ArticleAn Unusual Traffic Scheme at Masonic and O’Farrell: Left-Turning Cars >...
TweetFor some reason, the Golden Gods of the Planning Department / the SFMTA, the very same people who clamored for parking meters to operate on Sundays until they got it only to then say that they...
View ArticleInterpreting MUNI Hieroglyphics: 43 + 54 + 69 = You’re Going To Be Late,...
TweetLet’s see here: 43 Masonic; 54 minutes ’til the next bus; and 69* minutes ’til the bus after that Click to expand What’s that, MUNI, you want more money? But every other transit system in the...
View ArticleOoh Nice One, Goldman Sachs! CODA Automotive in Bankruptcy Today – The Bay...
TweetRead the news and turn the pages. I remember seeing CODA Automotive’s first SFMTA bus stop ad back in 2010. I thought, “Man, what a turkey.” That’s the year I started the DeathWatch. This whole...
View ArticleCoda DeathWatch, Day 898: Coda Automotive is Coding – Crappy, Expensive...
TweetThis is the end of the Coda Automotive DeathWatch, which started on October 14th, 2010. But tell me if I’m wrong, tell me if the final assembly facility in Benicia starts chugging out product all...
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