Mission Mission

I guess people all over town were bummed about being stuck in traffic because of these guys, but I had fun. Here’s video of the whole shebang:

(That bangin’ song is “The Rush” by FAVORS.)

AHSAH explains:

Car just lost control and crashed into the side of a house. The senior citizen fell asleep at the wheel and woke up in that massive hole he created. He’s doing alright however the resident who resides in that basement will be rather cold tonight. [link]

Parked at the Treasure Island Flea Market.

In the wake of all the debate about whether SFPD or NYPD drive the worst patrol cars, OPD swoops in and takes the cake.

(Oh and they did some other swooping too.)

[via The Fog Bender]

Mission Local reports:

Once vilified with the stamp of gentrification and viewed as a service for out-of-town visitors, valet parking has increasingly become accepted in the Mission, as a dozen or so restaurants and parking lots now offer the service. With new restaurants moving in, the likelihood is that even more will be needed.

If approved, a 50-space lot at Builders Exchange of San Francisco, on South Van Ness Avenue near 20th Street, will be the latest to adopt valet parking.

“What we can see in the immediate future is that the demand for parking, especially in the evening, is going to rise quite noticeably,” said Phillip Lesser of the Mission Merchants Association, who is spearheading the proposal for valet parking at the Exchange. “The supply of parking is going to diminish quite considerably.”

Read on.

[Photo by tastr]

This handy comic by The System gives you a healthy alternative to your standard bike vs. car road rage.

[via Rickshaw Bagworks' FB page]

[via Shooting in the Dark]

Looks like black car wins the latest battle at Mission and Silver last night.  Perhaps because black was in stealth mode with the headlights off at the time?

Seriously though, let’s hope no one was hurt.

(Thanks Francisco!)

Previously:

• Hectic three car crash
• Shouldn’t Have Ordered That Sidecar
• If a Car Flips Over on Capp and No One Gets Hurt

Los Angeles Magazine takes a look at how parking is fucking retarded, using LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and its massive underground parking structure as just one prime example. Here, LA gets compared to SF:

Donald Shoup, a Yale-trained economist and former chair of UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning, loves telling this story. Gehry’s auditorium may be wonderful, says Shoup, but it is also a fine example of poor planning. The garage—designed to serve the public good—instantly made the Metro immaterial to concertgoers, placed several thousand cars on the road every week, and pumped a few hundred tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. Like any parking lot entrance, the one on Bunker Hill sucked air from street life. “L.A.,” says Shoup, “required 50 times more parking under Disney Hall than San Francisco would allow at their own hall.” Downtown already had an oversupply of garages and lots where music fans could leave their cars. “After a concert in San Francisco,” says Shoup, “the streets are full of people walking to their cars, eating in restaurants, stopping into bars and bookstores. In L.A.? The bar next door at Patina is a ghost town.” Receipts that should have gone to the philharmonic’s endowment instead are funding enough parking for nearly every ticket holder to park a car every night downtown.

So San Francisco has it pretty good? I dunno. Read on for the history of parking, parking meters, parking tickets — and the possible futures of all those things too.

[via kottke] [Photo by tastr]