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Bicycle Lift in Norway

jax — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:33:02 GMT

I just ran across this blog entry about a bicycle lift in Norway. There's a video on there showing it in action. It would be awesome to have these on some of San Francisco's hills.

RE: Double decker busses to be tested in San Francisco

pete — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:50:36 GMT

and here is a schedule for the test:

http://www.sfmta.com/cms/malerts/SFMTAandTEPtestingdouble-deckerbuses.htm

RE: Two-way streets

Jay — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:22:07 GMT

Good stuff.
Even though I am a car guy, the race trackish one way streets in the city have allways bugged me.

Ok so maybe I am a little slow.(SF Japan Town)

Jay — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:20:47 GMT

But I just spotted this http://www.sfgov.org/site/planning_index.asp?id=57149
Over a SSP. I get a kick out of people who are trying to build a Japanese ish hood and complain about building being to tall.
Guess they have never been to Tokyo before;)

Double decker busses to be tested in San Francisco

pete — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:27:25 GMT

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/15/BA33TD8AA.DTL

These would only work on a handful of routes, but it'll be cool to check out.

RE: The Fisher Initiative thread

pete — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:04:24 GMT

Fisher has not honored his promise not to promote Prop H, and has been campaigning against Prop A

http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5008

With a low election turnout due to the lackluster Mayoral race, there is a real danger of H passing and A failing. We need to be talking these issues up amongst our contacts, and doing what we can to get people out to vote.

Information on volunteering to support Prop A is here: http://www.fixmuni.com/events.html

Two-way streets

pete — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:50:28 GMT

Supervisor Daly wants to return Ellis and Eddy to being two-way streets: http://sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/committees/materials/071394.pdf

And Supervisor Mirikami wants to do the same with a stretch of Hayes: http://sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/committees/materials/071097.pdf

This is great news, particularly on Ellis and Eddy - a chance to make a very lived-in section of Downtown more livable.

RE: Wow.

pete — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:55:11 GMT

Okay, that was easier than I thought it would be. Hopefully this will give me more time to start threads rather than taking up the limited time I've had for this board deleting the spam accounts.

Wow.

pete — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:27:59 GMT

I turned registration back on, and in less than half an hour, got a spammer trying to register. Despite the fact that I have captcha verification turned on, these registrations still keep coming in. Off to look for some sort of registration management plugin.

RE: The Battle for the Soul of San Francisco, Prop A vs. Prop H

Eric — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:38:59 GMT

Oops, forgot to mention. The phone bank is Monday through Thursday, from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. I think the first 30 minutes is "training", and then 2 hours of calls.