SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For drivers around the Bay Area, parking just got a little bit harder.
Beginning Monday, a new state law requires cities around California to improve visibility at intersections to protect pedestrians- called "daylighting."
That means from now on, no car will be able to park within 20 feet of any crosswalk.
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I have always hated trying to park in San Francisco. You're either going to circle the block a dozen times or more, or you're going to take it in the ass financially by parking in a lot or garage.
Trying to make driving as inconvenient as possible to force you to not have a car.
ReplyDeleteand OBTW they're thinking of shutting the cable cars and old school light rail down to save money, at a minimum cutting back service
ReplyDeleteFinding a place to park is just the start. Then there's the smash and grab guys to deal with. 50 years ago it was the same way. I remember going there as a kid and Dad finding a place to park so we could eat, then hearing the sound of a car window being broken out.
ReplyDeleteA druggie had snagged Dad's Craftman tool chest and tried to run. When he realized that tools are heavy and the large angry veteran was catching up, he popped the chest open and tossed the tools into a storm drain. Luckily for Dad, the guy kept a wrench and swung it at him. Luckily for the druggie, there was a pair of SF's finest just a block away.
So, the druggie was taken to the hospital to get medicated and splinted, Dad narrowly avoided arrest, and we missed lunch. The car window got replaced, but Dad never did get his tools back. The place has been a shithole for a long time, although at least then people weren't crapping on the sidewalks.
Last time I was in S.F. I was walking to the fish grotto with my then 6 jy.old son. A homeless guy that looked like a bedrggled jim morrison dropped ttou and proceed to drop a two foot duece in the street while walking & fully missed his partially dropped pants. My son was too busy with other sights & missed the display. I had to steer him away from it. Gross doesn't cover it. That was 25 years ago. I bet that duece is still there.
Delete"I have always hated trying to park in San Francisco."
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.......,why are you trying to park there?!
I lived in SF 79-80,not too bad then and was living right on the pan handle of Golden Gate Park,but now or last say 25 years......,fuck that noise!
My ex was a homeless advocate and had business there with some of the non-profits, plus she enjoyed the city so we visited damned near every weekend, or so it seems.
DeletePersonally, I hated it but went along in an effort to keep the peace.
This is actually a good idea. Having designed facilities in various areas of the country there are many places that require these clear zones. As stated in the article it also allows the driver to see cross traffic in time to avoid problems. Having also driven in places that did not have them I can tell you it is safer with them.
ReplyDeleteYeah, we don't care if it's safer. It's San Francisco. Fuck 'em.
ReplyDeleteIt would indeed be safer, but no relief from the regular involuntary manslaughter of both zombie homeless people stumbling into the roads from between parked cars and the INSANE influx of bicyclists swarming everywhere. On the one hand it is satisfying to think of squishing them, but on the other it's just flat out better NEVER to return to that godforsaken Baccanal by the Bay. If I could arm myself sufficiently, I'd consider going via ferry, but ONLY if it were a matter of life and death.
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