grumpyduck

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• Commented on Bailout to Benefit Bicyclists
  From the Washington Post online today, as stock market plunges again: GM stock leads the way after prediction that global auto industry may see "outright collapse" in 2009. Good timing for the bike benefit!...
• Commented on Park It: Spot or Not?
  It looks like the ticket-calling household's car (black job on right edge of photo) is pulled up on the sidewalk. This car should be put in a trash compacter. Towing is too mild. The wrong car got punished....
• Commented on Photo du Jour 195, 196
  That puny pedestrian median was finally installed after years of complaints about how unsafe this intersection is. The double-turn lane onto eastbound Cesar Chavez is still a hazard for anyone trying to cross on foot, and the gas station is...
• Commented on Another Day, Another Questionable Top-Ten List: SF Declared Most Walkable City
  Katerose: I think you mean "you're." If your mother has a driveway, then she has a garage. Use it. If it's occupied with her second car, she can pull up or double-park, unload the groceries quickly, then move the car....
• Commented on Another Day, Another Questionable Top-Ten List: SF Declared Most Walkable City
  The people who compiled this evidently have never tried to use the sidewalks in the neighborhoods, where louts park their cars completely blocking the way. Traffic control officers come twice to check if someone who doesn't have a residential sticker...