SF News Day Around The Bay -- Will Harper has it that Chris Daly might run for mayor now that Gonzalez is out. Whoa, a real contender! Interesting. [The Snitch (SF Weekly)] -- Proposed designs for the new Transbay
SF News Better Streets Survey Anyhow, we just got forwarded the SF Better Streets survey, where you get to rate your favorite and least favorite pedestrian streets in the city. Fun! The survey is relatively short, and they
SF News Day Around The Bay --Turns out rescuers totally missed the car of the missing Alameda County woman and her priest friend, even though they got exact directions from 911. [Chron.] --An Oakland Tribune sports columnist apologizes for
SF News SFist Blotter Well, that was a grim Daily Californian homepage yesterday. The top six stories: pedestrian hit by car on Telegraph; Berkeley summer camp evacuated due to Tahoe fire, body found near the Berkeley Marina,
SF News June Muni Payout Part 2: $157,736.31 Some of the cases are pretty standard -- personal injury, property damage, etc etc etc. (We winced upon reading of one plaintiff who was whacked in the face when they grabbed for a
Arts & Entertainment Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's First Town Hall Meeting Over the weekend, San Francisco's very own Princess Fiona had her first Town Hall meeting since joining the CA State Assembly. In addition to the everyday, pedestrian issues addressed, there was some talk
SF News SFist Blotter A lot of weird car accidents in the news yesterday: an impatient guy trying to pass around congestion on the road killed a pedestrian on 19th Avenue in San Francisco, a drunk off-duty
SF News Another Hit And Run We're sorry to pass along the news that a pedestrian is near death after having been hit by a car in the Nob Hill/Polk Gulch area at around 5:30 this morning.
Arts & Entertainment Why Did You Skip Healthy Saturday? All that work, all that lobbying and compromising, all those broken promises, all those clipboards -- and nobody showed up for the first Healthy Saturday. Yikes. We've got lots of pix up on
Arts & Entertainment Park in the Park Parking won't be free -- but then, it never is. The city hasn't worked out the exact prices yet, but between the rent they'll pay to the state's DMV and the fees paid
SF News Belmont: More cars! More pollution! The idea behind the Climate Protection Agreement is that dense housing (that's multi-unit buildings, like a duplex) near transit will reduce car usage and oil dependence and air pollution, transforming miserable freeways to
Arts & Entertainment Get Where You're Going Faster Compare these delightfully uniform navigation tools to the unformatted labyrinth that is Muni's new site, which has layers of differently-formatted menus and . Once again, we see that there is nothing Muni can do
SF News Speaker Pelosi on Gas Prices: Talking the Talk (Speaking the Speak?) Nancy Pelosi is sticking up for her constituents, amidst all the recent news that San Francisco has the highest gas prices in the nation. She says that she's trying to make July 4th
SF News Goodbye, Jessie; Hello, Mint Opening the street to pedestrians (aka "humans") has some opponents; some folks claim that it'll make it harder to valet their cars when frequenting the nearby hotels and malls. And to be fair,
SF News Why Everyone Hates Critical Mass -- And Why They're Wrong Whether you love Critical Mass or hate it, the folks on the other side of the debate must seem totally baffling, if not downright evil. Its detractors wonder, "how can anyone support an
SF News I Can't Drive 55 Here comes the numbers: while the number of collisions are down, the number of pedestrian fatalities are up. So, in other words, drivers don't hit other cars anymore, they hit pedestrians. The number
SF News Could a Skirt Have Saved Xiao Feng Deng's Life? Would skirts have helped? From some accounts, the victim was hit by the side of the bus as it turned, and pushed under the wheel. That certainly sounds plausible; we personally witnessed, a
SF News Woman Killed After Being Hit by Muni Bus This was the second Muni related incident in a month as someone was struck and killed on the J-Church line.
SF News Pedestrian Killed on Valencia Street by Asshole Driver From what we understand, the Quentin Tarantino portion of his Grindhouse movie is about a stunt driver who goes a little crazy and starts running over people. Which sounds kind of dumb and
SF News Why Does 511 Suck So Much? Get ready to go down a transit rabbit hole. Last time we wrote about the crapfest that is 511.org, one of our commenters placed blame on military contractors. So we dusted off
SF News Cycling: Stage 4 Drags Down the Pace Snoo-zer. Aside from the final five seconds of the race, the most exciting part of Thursday's Stage 4 in the 2007 Amgen Tour of California was the scenery. Relatively undistinguished topography and the
SF News Red Light Means What Exactly? Now the thing about this is that in the last year and a half, there have been eight crashes at the intersection, all caused by red light runners. Last July, a four year
misc Well Wishes To Norman Yee San Francisco school board president Norman Yee remains in intensive care after being hit by a car on 4th and Bryant the day after Christmas. However, he's in stable condition after undergoing two
Arts & Entertainment Shara Worden from My Brightest Diamond Shara has completed the arduous SFist interview process and, among other things will inspire you to go to Coney Island, if not the rest of NYC. If you haven’t managed to secure
SF News Another Pedestrian Killed by Caltrain The rise in fatalities in recent years has caused people to call for better safety measures. The fact that most of the fatalities are due to suicide will probably call for other types
