SFist: Your Commute: Slowest Drives

Jamison

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:00:01 -0800

I'll second AJ on riding a bike along Van Ness and I'd like to add how much of a pain left turns can be with oncoming traffic and no dedicated left turn phase in the light cycle. The Van Ness BRT project will do a lot to clean up traffic with dedicated bus lanes, turn pockets and adding dedicated left turn phases.

aj

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:45:24 -0800

You're out of your mind to bike on Van Ness. Use Polk instead.

guest

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:13:33 -0800

Darn! I was hoping for news about the Caltrain meltdown yesterday morning--rumor was that a bomb scare at 4th & King prevented northbound trains from reaching the station, and several southbound trains from departing. I even heard the word "robot"! But no reportage anywhere. Sigh.

chad

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:00:18 -0800

I wouldn't call it my "favorite" bottleneck, as it is completely maddening and makes me grind my teeth and my blood boil, but driving, bicycling, or riding MUNI down Van Ness Avenue is an ghastly ordeal. It's a surface road that carries the same amount of traffic as a freeway. Every two blocks, someone double-parks, which quickly turns into a backup that goes back several blocks. Seeing the 45 or 49 bus marooned in the middle of an intersection, causing even more backup on cross streets, is an everyday event. And that's about enough out of me.