Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Segway Traffic Jam in the Marina The commission that said no to the Panhandle Bandshell a while back, has just said yes to Segways in Golden Gate Park. Enjoy the Channel 7 video but try not to chuckle at
Arts & Entertainment Dennis Herrera Drops the Hammer on the Cosco Busan Getting the Busan ready for the long journey home. Most of the patching job should be done by now. San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit this morning against a host of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Tour the Ghost Ship of San Francisco Word comes from Telstar Logistics about a recent photo tour aboard a vintage cruise ship that's been sitting around unused for years. Check out the provenance of the SS Independence here and of
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
Arts & Entertainment Eat it, Portland! San Francisco Most "Walkable" City Everybody get and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas here in .pdf. But why are we talking about Portland? And what about
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Bests in Show at the S.F. Car Show Now on with the Bests in Show. Up first is the all-electric, "high performance, road-hugging, ultra-narrow" Tango two seater. Dreamy George Clooney drives one. See? More about this handsome devil, along with a
SF News Calling Into Question Double Decker Bus Aesthetics Let's face it, underneath all of our progressive thinking and alleged altruism, we're a vain city. Thank God. After all, we are Californians nestled in a land of impossible waistlines and beauty. That
SF News Your Commute: Recursive Car Accident Sounds like a mess down on 880 just north of Highway 84, where a big rig ran off the highway at around 1 a.m. this morning and spilled its cargo all over
SF News Double Decker Buses? Alright or Cherrio? Later this month you will start to see something droll, orthodontically-estranged, and charmingly inbred on the street of San Francisco: British-like double decker buses. San Francisco will be trying out the 14-foot-tall buses
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Bullitt Returns to San Francisco, sort of Photo by: Susanne Friedrich
SF News Oil Spill Update: Is this the Path of the Cosco Busan? BoatingSF.com has posted an animated video created by using Automatic Identification System (AIS) radio signals. Check out the video here. Nobody, not us and not even BoatingSF, is vouching that the path
SF News 19th Ave/Sloat Signal, Continued We were bicycling out in Parkside today, and we stopped to admire the new traffic signals at 19th and Sloat. It's still extraordinarily dangerous, and perhaps worse. The sign telling cars to yield
SF News Murderous Intersection Tamed with a Turn Signal The traffic on 19th is so fast and so thick that it's like an interstate highway; and in fact, the state considers it exactly that, and claims ownership of the road. Leland Yee's
SF News <i>Free Bike Lights!</i> Free Bike Lights! <i>Free Bike Lights!</i> Anybody can get a light, even this guy. But there's a catch -- you have to show up . So, see you at the following locations this afternoon: • Upper Market: Market St. at Duboce
SF News And So It Begins... Barricades have gone up, drag queens are slapping on the greasepaint and Cover Girl cosmetics, and your BART and Muni closures / re-routings start soon. With that said, this has been somewhat of...a
SF News BART Shuttle Service, Where Art Thou? As much as we bitched today about the unexpected free-shuttle service on Halloween night, they're actually a nice thing for the city of San Francisco to have. The problem is: where have they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Where Will You Go This No-Halloween? The hallow'ed New York Times seems to think that no souls, not even "costumeless outsiders", will show up for "Nightmare on Castro Street." Mmmm. Well then, where else is there to go? The
SF News BART Closure Counterattack: Free Shuttle Service It's a battle of the press releases! Watch yourselves, or you might get cut. Did anyone know about these free shuttles tomorrow night, over at the 16th Street/Mission station? We didn't. Not
SF News Your SF Halloween Night Closures Why aren't you hiding under the covers yet? The city doesn't want to so much as hear you breathe come tomorrow. So, start upending those floorboards and crawling into that dank attic, or
SF News How to Ride Muni and BART At last! An informative guide -- tutoring both rookies and veterans riders alike -- on how the hell to ride the headache that is Muni and BART public transportation. Neighbors Project brings you
SF News Muni Loves To Count There's a money room in the basement of 1 South Van Ness, where the Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is headquartered. Workers literally count by hand bags of cash and coins taken
SF News Woman Slashed With Knife at Muni Stop It that that seems a day can't go by without some sort of danger happening with Muni transportation. This time an argument between a man and a woman at the Seventh Street and
SF News Muni's Weekend Guide (And of course, if you enjoy online scavenger hunts, you can also attempt to get this info on Muni's website.) So what's on Muni's radar this weekend? The Noe Valley Harvest Festival! The
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