SF News Transbay Transit Center's Rooftop Park And Apple's New Campus Were In Tree-Buying Battle Getting the right 469 trees to plant in the Transbay Transit Center's crowning rooftop park has been a difficult task, and in part, Apple is to blame. The long-awaited San Francisco development project,
SF News Visualizing The Hub, A Proposed Home For Tall Buildings Around Market While one nook of Market Street, basically an area from Market to Mission between Valencia and 11th Streets, has been included in 2008's Market and Octavia Area Plan, now the Planning Department is
SF News How SF's Massive Super Bowl Ads Ducked Permit Fees, Billboard Regulations Astute commenters on yesterday's post on Embarcadero Center's Super Bowl wrap fail wondered if such displays violated San Francisco's advertising regulations, and/or if the building owners could be fined for the vast
SF News New Coffee War Brewing In The Castro Coffee. Suffice it to say we are a town obsessed. And though it may not boast the hip-kid-approved venues of Ritual, Four Barrel, or The Mill, or the even bougier Sightglass or Blue
SF News New Raised 'Cycle Tracks' Proposed for Market Street DPW has put $42 million toward a repaving and redesign of Market Street over the next four years, and among the proposals is a new separated track for bicycles that hasn't yet been
SF News Parkmerced Plan Narrowly Approved by Board of Supervisors After around an hour of tense discussions and an expletive-laden ejection of one unruly member of the public, the Board of Supervisors narrowly passed the Parkmerced Plan on a 6-5 vote. Dissenting supervisors
misc Valencia Street: You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Chains We were happy to find a photo of ourselves -- or is it "ourself"? -- on Flickr the day after we went down to Ritual Roasters to type a letter registering our disapproval
misc One of our Rare Pro-Muni Posts It's not often we get to say it, so let's relish the feeling: yay Muni! Today, Muni boss Nat Ford joined a bunch of other transit officials in making some nice suggestions for
misc Google Relieves Your Muni Frustrations Unfortunately, for just about any trip we could think up, the driving times were always dramatically shorter than the transit times, so this isn't exactly encouraging people to give up their cars. Le
misc Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About BART (but You Aren't Allowed to Know About Muni) Muni declined to comment when we asked them why they weren't participating. So we'll have to assume it's because their engineers are already in way over their heads; and nobody there has any
