SF News GottaPark Invites More Parking Spaces, More Traffic to SF Well, this is a nifty idea. Sort of. San Francisco resident John Somoza came up with a practical and much-needed way for all of you vehicle drivers out there to find some extra
misc When DumbPeople Look at SmartCars The sudden appearance of a Smart in our neighborhood got us thinking: perhaps this parking solution will bring an end to our car-free lifestyle. We conducted a quick feasibility study in our neighborhood,
misc How Acceptable is it to Park Your Car in the Middle of Valencia? See an aerial photo and recite the Parker's Pledge, after the jump.
misc Jammed Up Parking Meters Really Grind Our Gears Now back in the day, you could twist the old school metal knob and then a little flag printed with the words "" or "Epoch Fail" would pop up. It looked a little like
misc Hey You! Get Your Damn Cars Off Of The Sidewalk! Of course there's all sorts of different kinds of sidewalk parking. You can park on a sidewalk leaving plenty of space for peds to get by, or you can park in front of
misc Welcome to the Brave New World of Orwellian Parking Meters San Francisco, you're going to love it! See you (literally - the Party has tapped into your webcam) after the jump.
SF News Bay Bridge Crash Exemplifies Song from <em>The Lion King</em> Due to the traffic backup caused by yesterday's fatal car crash on the Bay Bridge, it seems that a woman popped out a kid. According to the Examiner: As a result of the
SF News SFist Photo: How Will The Mini Get Out? We were walking home last night, and came across this Mini on Church Street. Front bumper flush with the truck, rear wheels right on the curb. How did this happen? Is the Mini
SF News Behold the Proposed Presidio Museum You Might Visit Once or Twice We love the idea of turning the Presidio into a destination. After all, it's a gorgeous place. Ridiculously beautiful parts of the Presidio make Golden Gate Park look downright crummy. And what with
Arts & Entertainment This Just In: Fall Out Boy's Van Not Invisible It looks like one of San Jose's most trusty traffic cops was also in a giving mood. The Invisible Children van got a parking ticket. They were parked illegally (see the red curb
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Reverend Billy As you walk around and see stores decorated for Christmas before Halloween, it’s hard not to think that consumerism has gone out of control in this country. Unlike other problems, there’s
SF News Smash-and-Grabs Slowed Perhaps in an effort to appease the masses for screwing them over on insane parking ticket allocations, the San Francisco Police Department, the Mayor's Office, and city prosecutors are working together to stop
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Guide to this Weekend: Baseball, New-Agey Contortionists This weekend's Muni news spans both ends of the Kinsey scale: for straight people, football; for the gays, Cirque du Soleil. Of course, gays are also allowed to like sports. (All those bulging
Arts & Entertainment SFist Blotter Today, a little before 8 a.m. in the Bayview-Hunter's Point District at the 600+ unit complex Bayview Apartments currently under renovation: one person, shot; one person, dead. When police arrived at the
SF News BART Will Know When You're Sleeping, Awake, Riding the Last Car With a cool $5.4 million in new state bond money, according to the Chronicle, "BART will upgrade and expand its security camera system" to the likes of which you've never seen before!
SF News Non-Football Related Argument Ends in Shooting and More After yesterday's Raiders game in the McAfee Coliseum parking lot, a man was shot in the leg and groin (ye-ouch!) after a non-football related argument," according Alameda County Sheriff Dept. Sgt. J.D.
SF News Measure H Math As part of its campaign against Measure H, the SF Bicycle Coalition has notified us that there are more parking spaces than cars in San Francisco: our fair but congested city has "603,
SF News SFist Blotter Bad day on the transportation front yesterday: so someone got stabbed on a MUNI bus yesterday afternoon around 1 p.m. at 16th Street and Mission, and on the morning commute, southbound 880
SF News SFist Blotter 101, the highway of doom! There was a drunk driving death near Willow Road Wednesday morning, along with all those random shootings the day before. The cops, for what it's worth, say none
misc Blocker: 1800 Haight Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News Yay for Buses and Oxygen! Boooo for Pretending that Hummers are "Low-Emission"! So, obviously, SFist can't even pretend to be neutral when it comes to Prop A. We've been covering its progress for months, and now it's evolved into a smart, fair compromise that has
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist saw national headlines soar this week with news about the Jena 6 in Louisiana and of a police taser incident at a John Kerry event. Locally, Hollywood protesters marched in support of
SF News It's Park(ing) Day It's Park(ing) Day, folks. Today's the day REBAR, a San Francisco-based art collective, thought of taking parking spaces and turning them into public ones by creating fun-sized parks. Now cities all over
