SF News Renegade Transit Activists Install their Own ‘Guerilla Benches’ at SF Bus Stops That Don’t Have Benches A rogue group of activists won’t stand for the lack of benches at many SF Muni stops, so they went and installed a bunch of their own unauthorized benches this past weekend. But we’ll see how this sits with SF Public Works.
SF News Public Works Deflects From Overflowing City Trash Can Complaints With Announcement of $12,000 ’Slim Silhouette’ Relaunch When Supervisor Danny Sauter requested more trash cans in his district, Public Works deflected by announcing the relaunch of the costly Slim Silhouette to replace existing ‘90s-era cans already on the streets, but they’re not adding additional trash cans to the mix, which doesn't solve the shortage.
SF News Mohammed Nuru’s Ex-Girlfriend Sandra Zuniga Gets Probation, Not Jail, For Laundering His Bribe Money SF’s former head of the Office of Neighborhood Services Sandra Zuniga, also known as “Girlfriend 1” in the FBI’s Mohammed Nuru indictment, will skate with just three years probation after a very favorable sentencing Thursday.
SF News Incredibly Pricey Trash Can Drama Returns, City Hall Committee Halts New Cans' Approval The saga of what were originally the widely derided $20,000 trash cans is back in the headlines, as a City Hall committee has put the final approval of the “Slim Silhouette” bins on hold over vandalism concerns.
SF News Photos: One of 24th Street’s Largest Ficus Trees Has Been Reduced to Sawdust and a Stump What may have been the largest ficus tree on all of 24th Street has bit the sawdust, as its branches were all chopped down Wednesday, and on Thursday it was removed entirely.
SF News SF Public Works Announces Winner Of ‘$20,000 Trash Can’ Contest — The Slim Silhouette A pricey bureaucratic process that’s littered the national press with San Francisco jokes has come to an end, as a survey and pilot program has led SF Public Works to choose the Slim Silhouette as the city’s new public trash can design.
SF News SF Public Works Will (Finally!) Clean Off Building Graffiti and Tagging For Free In a long-overdue move, SF Public Works will stop charging small businesses and building owners for having graffiti on their buildings, and instead come out and clean off the tagging for free.
SF News SF Spent a Half Million Dollars Creating Fancy Trash Can Prototypes and More Survey Respondents Preferred Ugly Off-the-Shelf 'BearSaver' Model The trash-can saga drones on over at the Department of Public Works, and today we learn the results of that survey they ran seeking public opinion on six waste receptacle designs being considered.
SF Politics Pile of Poop Prominently Placed In Political Pamphlet Now Arriving In SF Mailboxes The latest SF political mailer drops a provocation in the old San Francisco street poop debates, and it’s largely paid for by a union that may gain some members under a Department
SF News Reminder: You’ve Got One More Week to Give Feedback on Those $20,000 Trash Can Prototypes You SF taxpayers paid big money for those sleek new stainless steel (and very pricey) trash can prototypes, so you might as well get your money’s worth and try ‘em all in these final seven days of the feedback period.
SF News Behold! Your $20,000 Trash Cans Have Arrived In SF and Are Now At Your Disposal Your designer-label “smart” trash bins finally hit the streets of SF this week after a year of mockery over their exorbitant cost, and you can submit your thoughts on them — with a smartphone-enabled QR code of course.
SF News Mission Bay Residents File Class-Action Lawsuit Against San Francisco Over Sinking and Cracking Sidewalks A problem that's been visible — and trip-able — for Mission Bay residents for years, the uneven sinking of sidewalks and streets around the relatively new buildings in the neighborhood, is heading to court.
SF News SF Trash Bin Saga Gets Even More Complicated, Three New Models Now in the Running The already-laughingstock San Francisco trash can replacement drama is getting less resolution instead of more, as more new proposed bin models are now littering the landscape.
SF Politics Sanitation and Streets Department To Take Shape Tuesday, Hopes to Be ‘Laser Focused’ On Cleaning Up SF Streets Former supervisor Matt Haney proposed the Department of Sanitation and Streets to break that duty away from Public Works. The supervisors will vote to make it a reality on Tuesday, though ironically, it will now be a department within Public Works.
SF News City Awards $2 Million to Family of 67-Year-Old Woman Killed by Public Works Truck Rui Xia Zhen was hit and killed by a Public Works truck in March 2020. Nearly two years later, her family finally has a settlement from the city.
SF News Video: Tron-Like 3D Market Street Map Created By Laser Truck This past Sunday saw a strange sight, even by Market Street standards, when a laser-equipped motorcade made its sluggish way down Market Street. But perhaps you missed the LiDAR truck, which needed the
SF News Valentine's Day Pillow Fight Cleanup: Very Cheap Tidying up Justin Herman Plaza after this year's Valentine's Day Pillow Fight was far cheaper than previous years. Somewhere around $3,500, according to the Department of Public Works. "Feathers, trash and debris
misc SFist Blotter (Tuesday Edition) You get a very special blotter today. Alas. Carrying on San Francisco's lightning-hot crime wave, a drive-by shooting occurred on the Hayes Valley/Lower Haight nexus last night. At around 6:40 p.
Arts & Entertainment Divisadero: Smelly, Dirty, Dangerous, and We Liked it That Way Ah, beautiful Diviz. Is there no boulevard more perfect, more blissful? When we think "nice places to take an afternoon constitutional," we are drawn instantly to its divine charm. It is, simply put,
Arts & Entertainment And You Thought the Shooting Was Bad Apparently you can't have a port-o-let unless the street's officially closed, and the DPW wasn't willing to recognize that anything remarkable could happen in the Castro on Halloween. The citizens will be appealing
SF News More Transit Thrills Than You Can Possibly Stand They're also planning to allocate $64,000 to Public Works for the sprucing up a few blocks of Valencia Street -- that's just design-engineering of 17th to 19th, not the actual construction. Construction
SF News The DPW is Doing a Heckuva Job For example, there's tree pruning, something of importance considering Gavin's plans to go around and plant trees everywhere. Trees are supposed to be pruned every three years. They're pruned every seven. But because
SF News So Fresh and So Clean San Francisco just received a grant of $1.8 million dollars that will go to helping clean up the streets in certain neighborhoods. The program, called the Community Corridor program, is already being
SF News When it Rains, It Pours The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is warning residents in low lying areas that the expected rain for this and next weeks may lead to property damage and flooding. The PUC has mobilized
SF News Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth Err, no. This is San Francisco after all. During a vote on whether or not to accept it, possible soon-to-be City Assessor Geraldo Sandoval kicked it out to the Rules Committee because, we
