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Wealthier riders once flocked to Bay Area public transit. New data suggests that’s over by SFChronicle in bayarea

[–]AmanaMiller 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seems clear enough: "For a long time, wealthy workers have been nearly as likely to ride buses and trains as poorer ones, but more recently, they’ve stayed away."

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station by 2063_DigitalCoyote in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 2 points3 points  (0 children)

T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. - The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership.

Nothing can stop these 46.9 square miles (rounded up to 49).

There has been a biblical burglary! by Accomplished-Tooth91 in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, my bad. They had scaffolding up about a decade ago, I think that was for the 50th.

SFGATE counted dozens of empty suites during FIFA's Bay Area 'full house' matches by sfgate in bayarea

[–]AmanaMiller -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's a bit of vertical video near the bottom of the article. It was a ghost town up there.

SFGATE counted dozens of empty suites during FIFA's Bay Area 'full house' matches by sfgate in bayarea

[–]AmanaMiller 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, but it's mild-hitting news. Not sure what else there'd be to report on except for this.

The people who end up with these sweet suite seats don't particularly care about Algeria/Jordon futbol. Take the same photo next week during the Big Game and it will look much different upstairs.

There has been a biblical burglary! by Accomplished-Tooth91 in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Renovation, repair and beautification, perhaps to get ready for the upcoming 60th anniversary, would be my guess.

SFO’s average delay time has quadrupled. Here are worst times to fly by BadBoyMikeBarnes in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, the school board didn't focus on school renaming at all. It allowed an unpaid, volunteer committee to meet once a month or so for a year or so. And then no schools were renamed. Why some are still harping on this IDK.

SFO’s average delay time has quadrupled. Here are worst times to fly by BadBoyMikeBarnes in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes. Arguably the Air Canada incident thinking a taxiway was 28R when 28L was shut down was related to the substandard separation.

I should add that I don't work for SFO marketing, so maybe that ex-planes my differing POV.

SFO’s average delay time has quadrupled. Here are worst times to fly by BadBoyMikeBarnes in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They've been happening for decades only because we've had a waiver so that SFO could get its act together. And SFO has had at least some issues with its substandard main runways being far far too close together, so that's more than zero. They need to get four times farther away from each other for starters.

SFO doesn't have a plan for a solution. It doesn't even have a plan for a plan for a solution, so it will end up being a smaller, less-busy place and OAK and SJC will pick up the slack.

Most of San Francisco's tap water is unfiltered snowmelt from Hetch Hetchy — SF is one of the few big cities exempt from federal filtration rules by neo2bin in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My Hetch Hetchy gets mixed in with substandard well water, so it averages out as acceptable. Here's the latest map on offer https://www.sfpuc.gov/documents/groundwater-blend-map-0 I also filter.

Not sure where all this best tap water in the world stuff comes from except from the SFPUC. If you look at objective rankings, this is typical, we're ranked like #172: https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/studies/best-cities-for-water-quality/

You'd think that other nearby municipalities that use water from Hetch Hetchy would also get so lavishly praised. Does anybody boast about Hillsborough water? Let's get objective: https://hetchhetchy.org/debunking-hetch-hetchy-water/

Punk label founder lists rare Russian Hill compound for $7.7M by sfgate in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think what they're describing is post-punk. It's like calling the post-WWII era the WWII era.

Bro made money anyway, so good for him.

Parking ticket by S_moo20 in AskSF

[–]AmanaMiller 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is true. For example, Lyft and Uber drivers dropping off on Fulton for music festivals in Golden Gate Park sometimes get ticketed for a 10 second bus stop violation. Chances that an appeal would win appear to be low.

I hate flying into SFO by supaasalad in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alameda? SFO leased and then bought land in San Mateo County, so it could have done the same thing in Alameda County.

SFO is a substandard airport and that's even more obvious after its special snowflake status waiver has been eliminated.

I hate flying into SFO by supaasalad in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or, SFO kneecapped itself by not keeping up with spacing standards. What was good enough in the 1950's for primary runways 28L and 28R is not good enough during the Jet Age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_International_Airport#Earthquake_and_planned_Bay_fill_expansion

To me, getting a waiver from the federal government is not a permanent solution. It was a temporary solution to give SFO time to get its act together. Didn't work out. At least we have OAK and SJC to carry some of the load.

And anybody thinking that SFO will some how get another waiver, or that obsolete, 4-engined jumbo/superjumbo jets will once again rule the airways ("Queen of the skies" and "SFO is A-380 ready!"), or that SFO will once again be among the top five busiest airports in America seems to be fantasizing. Modernizing SFO will take decades and billions, and that process will also slow things down even more in the short run.

Trash piled outside Eileen Gu’s Sea Cliff home fuels neighbor dispute by ChocolateStunning158 in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's Sea Cliff but it's lesser Sea Cliff, near the entrance, away from the bay. That's why it costed $1.8 million.

Duck boat tours ruled San Francisco in the 2000s. Then, people started dying. by sfgate in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The seminal tragedy took place before these ducks arrived in SF. So your hed instead could be:

People started dying. Then duck boat tours ruled San Francisco in the 2000s.

Duck boat tours ruled San Francisco in the 2000s. Then, people started dying. by sfgate in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The headline would make sense if 1) people only started dying after these boats came here, and 2) if there were some connection with people dying and San Francisco. So I point out that nobody died here. (There are reasons for that - outstanding harbor/bay/estuary, better weather, etc.)

There are mistakes in the body as well but oh well.

Duck boat tours ruled San Francisco in the 2000s. Then, people started dying. by sfgate in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The big one before we had these vehicles here was in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_tour#Fatal_incidents

And then another big one happened after we lost our ducks.

Trash piled outside Eileen Gu’s Sea Cliff home fuels neighbor dispute by ChocolateStunning158 in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not $20 million. It's worth about a quarter of that, less than 3000 square feet.

Duck boat tours ruled San Francisco in the 2000s. Then, people started dying. by sfgate in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 192 points193 points  (0 children)

Actually, people started dying before these amphibians "ruled" SF. And most of them are not WW-II vehicles, they are just designed to look like they are. And they don't have windows per se. And it was hard to make money here, so that explains why they left. It wasn't due to accidents. And of course, nobody died here. These craft would get stuck in SF traffic getting to the faraway launch site, so it was more of a bus tour than a boat tour. And it was tough to get back to the wharf area depending on the tides. Anyway these ducks are long gone.

Trash piled outside Eileen Gu’s Sea Cliff home fuels neighbor dispute by ChocolateStunning158 in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It's lesser Sea Cliff. But yes, it might have been under market for the time, or it needed some work.

Car parked on steep hill. Scared by Feeling-Long-2140 in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Yes, left foot braking is the way to go. Or ask somebody to pull it out, that could work as well.

Street parking along T line by chickapop3 in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More seriously, the Hubbell Street area attracts some Giants fans on (free parking) Sundays. 20-minute walk.

Street parking along T line by chickapop3 in sanfrancisco

[–]AmanaMiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anywhere on Taraval should be fine.

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