Results tagged “deputydirector”

Have you been following the drama with the city's bike plan? It's BANANAS, and there's no end in sight. Basically: the city wants to paint bike lanes and allow bikes on trains and so on. But someone sued the city, saying that bicycles might hurt the environment. So, now the city has to do an environmental review in order to prove that the lawsuit is bats**t insane.

-Your next hi-tech company in a bit of legal trouble? Apple. -Board of Supes demote Annemarie Conroy. To move from Director of Emergency Services to Deputy Director for Emergency Services.

No, not the sewers -- the subway. Passions were set aflame among transit enthusiasts when a memo by the SF County Transit Authority [PDF] suggested that the Central Subway (an as-yet-unbuilt system, intended to connect the existing lines with Chinatown, SOMA, and elsewhere) might get built without any actual means of transferring between subway lines. For those of you playing along, yes, that would make the entire $1.2 billion project pretty much useless.