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Group makes push to end pedestrian deaths in SFabc7news.comSAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — There’s a big push underway to stop what feels like open season on pedestrians in San Francisco. Four people have been hit and killed by vehicles so far this year. Today, the group Vision Zero took a public stand and said enough … … Read more
The Transbay Transit Center Contruction Project in San Francisco reached a special milestone on Monday, February 10th 2014: excavation work to make the underground “box” that will accommodate the structure, bus road levels, and train track levels, was finished. Now, the part of ‘filling in’ the box starts. To understand what I mean, please take … Read more
Excavation Complete at Transbay Transit Center in South BeachCurbed SFMore than three years after first breaking ground, the future Transbay Transit Center has officially completed excavation. The four-block long mega project has dug, scooped and hauled away 640,000 cubic yards of dirt, or “the equivalent of 120 Olympic … …read more Source: Transbay Transit Center … Read more
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Transbay Transit Center excavation work completedSan Francisco ExaminerTwo years in the digging, crews have now completed excavation for The City’s Transbay Transit Center, marking a significant project milestone, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority announced Monday. The process entailed removing 640,000 cubic yards of …Transbay Transit Center Completes Excavation of More Than 600000 Cubic …SanFranciscoSentinel.com all … Read more
Transbay Transit Center Completes Excavation of More Than 600000 Cubic …SanFranciscoSentinel.comToday, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) reached a significant project milestone – completing excavation for the Transbay Transit Center. “This brings us another step closer to the opening of the ‘Grand Central Station of the West,’ said Maria … and more …read more Source: … Read more
San Francisco ChronicleThe golden age of the cable car came to an end starting with the 1906 earthquake and fire. Over the next four decades, one proud line after another shut down or converted to electricity. The Geary, Park and Ocean line closed in 1912. In 1929, the … …read more Source: San Francisco News … Read more
Planning Department Takes a Serious Look at Highway 280 TeardownStreetsblog San Francisco (blog)… plans for the area include the conversion of the 280 stub into a boulevard and housing, the Caltrain railyard redevelopment, and the planned rail electrification and downtown extension of Caltrain and CA High-Speed Rail to the Transbay Transit Center. …read more Source: … Read more
Middle class leaving San Francisco, census saysSan Francisco Chronicle (blog)A net of about 5,075 individuals earning between $35,000 and $74,999 annually moved out of San Francisco between 2007 and 2011, according to Census Bureau data from those years. That number is about 40 percent more than the 3,654 people in the … and more …read … Read more
San Jose Mercury NewsSAN FRANCISCO — Charles Schwab Corp. said Thursday it is planning to move about 1,000 jobs out of San Francisco over the next three to five years. The San Francisco-based banking and brokerage company has more than 13,000 employees, including …Schwab Moving 1000 Workers Out of San Francisco, Citing CostsFox BusinessBrokerage to … Read more
CBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Two workers were killed while moving large slabs of granite as they worked in a shipping container in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood Friday morning, a fire department spokeswoman said. Fire Department …SF workers fatally injured by falling granite slabs in shipping containerKTVU San Francisco1 dead, 1 badly hurt in … Read more
The San Francisco Appeal3:25 PM: A worker was injured this morning when he fell from a platform at a construction site for San Francisco’s new Transbay Transit Center, project officials said. The accident was reported at about 8:10 a.m. at a site in the 500 block of Howard …Worker Injured In Accident San Francisco Transbay … Read more
CVS Caremark has posted this note on its website from Larry Merlo, CVS Caremark President and CEO: CVS/pharmacy will stop selling cigarettes and all tobacco products at its more than 7,600 stores nationwide by October 1, 2014. Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is simply the right thing to do for … Read more
Police searching for suspect after car chase, shooting in SFabc7news.comSAN FRANCISCO — Police have swarmed part of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood to search for a suspect who was shot at by an officer after a car chase this afternoon, a police spokesman said. The chase began around noon when officers spotted …Suspect Missing After … Read more
CBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— A pedestrian was struck and killed by a car in a crash that also injured three others along Sunset Boulevard in the San Francisco, according to the fire department. The crash happened at or near the intersection of Sunset and …SF crash kills pedestrian, injures 3San Francisco ChroniclePedestrian killed by car, … Read more
A-11 Offense Spring Football League – based on the The A-11 Offense that was created by Cal-Berkeley grad Steve Humphries and his Piedmont High School (Piedmont, CA) coaching partner Kurt Bryan – will be officially kicked off with a press conference this Thursday in San Francisco and the big news is they’ve got a television … Read more
CBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Two homeless people were stabbed near San Francisco’s Embarcadero early Monday morning, police said. Officers responded to the incident at The Embarcadero where a woman was found stabbed between Piers 5 and 7, neat …Police investigating double stabbing in San FranciscoKTVU San FranciscoSan Francisco: Police investigate two stabbings near EmbarcaderoSan … Read more
This is the Transbay Transit Center Construction Update for February 3rd – Feb 9th 2013. Weekday Work (02/03/14 – 02/07/14): Project Construction Hours of Work: 24 Hours a Day Western Transit Center Site (Between First and Second Streets): This week between the hours of 6:00 AM and 6:30 PM there will be installation of rebar … Read more
San Francisco ChronicleNearly everyone who’s tried to catch a cab on a Saturday night in San Francisco or summon a ride downtown from the Sunset knows that the city’s taxi system has been badly stressed for years. And now, with the influx of unregulated competition from Uber … and more …read more Source: San Francisco … Read more
Chronicle at SF Giants FanFestSan Francisco Chronicle (blog)The Chronicle is at SF Giants media day today and Giants FanFest tomorrow, where they’ll be filing stories and taking lots of photos. Some early notes, especially for those going to FanFest: Tim Hudson won’t be there, due to Atlanta’s weather conditions. and more …read more Source: San … Read more
Richmond developer looks to link workers to San Francisco with water taxiContra Costa TimesRICHMOND — A private water taxi may soon transport workers from the Marina Bay shoreline to San Francisco daily. Richard Poe, who owns and operates 25 acres of land and about 250,000 square feet of office space on the Richmond waterfront, says … Read more
CIM Group Acquires Office Building at 246 1st Street in San Francisco’s South …The Herald | HeraldOnline.com (press release)Located at the corner of 1st and Tehama Streets, 246 1st Street is conveniently situated near several major Bay Area transportation networks, including the planned Transbay Transit Center (just over one block away), the Montgomery BART and … Read more
The Drakes Bay Oyster Company, on the heels of winning a 90-day stay of Department Of Interior eviction action by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio as it seeks a hearing in the U.S. Supreme Court, is playing hard-ball itself in suing the California Coastal Commission. On Wednesday, Drakes Bay Oyster Company filed … Read more
Study to look at demolishing I-280San Francisco Chronicle (blog)… neighborhood before building the downtown rail extension that will bring Caltrain to the new Transbay Transit Center, the planned electrification of Caltrain and the opening of still-uncertain high-speed rail system, which would also go to the … …read more Source: Transbay Transit Center News From Google … Read more
San Francisco snowfall in 1976 … the first reader photos are hereSan Francisco Chronicle (blog)Bill Fox was a 25-year-old San Francisco cop coming off the night shift on Feb. 5, 1976, when snow started falling on his windowsill. I’m imagining Fox with a Clint Eastwood haircut and sports coat with patches on the sleeves, the … Read more
Puppy Found In Trash, Rescued By San Francisco Recology Workers AdoptedCBS LocalPuppy Found In Trash, Rescued By San Francisco Recology Workers Adopted. January 29, 2014 5:31 PM. View Comments. A puppy named Gem was rescued from a conveyor belt at a Recology recycling facility in San Francisco on December 20, 2013. and more …read more … Read more
The Google Bus Didn’t Cause San Francisco to Become Super Expensive, But It …The Atlantic CitiesThe shuttle buses that ferry tech workers from San Francisco to Silicon Valley are accused of causing all kinds of secondary ills: They encourage people to live far from their workplaces. Those people move into neighborhoods where they otherwise might … Read more
Every place I love in San Francisco in one gorgeous timelapseGizmodoSan Francisco is fantastic. I’m admittedly biased because I live here, but behind all the headlines of late—skyrocketing housing prices, burgeoning class war, tech bubble 2.0—it’s still chock full of weird, wonderful, and just plain beautiful stuff … …read more Source: San Francisco News By … Read more
San Francisco’s Income Gap Captures Wall Street Spotlight: TechBloombergWhether it’s protesters targeting Twitter Inc. (TWTR)’s new San Francisco headquarters and Google Inc. (GOOG)’s buses or the criticism against these agitators by former venture capitalist Tom Perkins, the Bay Area’s technology industry is attracting … and more …read more Source: San Francisco News By Google Zennie … Read more
Suspicious Object In SF Pacific Heights Portable Toilet May Have Been Arson …CBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Police were clearing out of a Pacific Heights neighborhood where the discovery of a suspicious object Monday morning prompted evacuations and elicited a bomb squad response. The object was found shortly after 10:30 a.m. …San Francisco: Bomb … Read more
I kept calling Dot Complicated, Randi Zuckerberg’s memoir on how digital media has changed our lives, and how to maintain your sanity during the cultural flux, “Dot Confidential” to myself, again and again. Then, I figured out why after not a lot of thought. When I finished reading the book (and after losing my autographed … Read more
The new “Hot Or Not” app for Facebook is really interesting, especially considering that Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly started that social network as something called “Facemash.” “Hot or Not” is really a far better variation of Facemash that really can be a useful time waster, or a window into what could be … Read more
KTVU San FranciscoThe next America’s Cup could be sailed off a Hawaiian beach, on San Diego Bay or in some other port instead of returning to a San Francisco Bay course bordered by the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. Russell Coutts, the CEO of America’s Cup …S.F. losing ground in race to host America’s … Read more
Ars TechnicaOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA—For the last month, 40 mysterious billboards have popped up in seemingly random locations around the San Francisco Bay Area. “The revolution has started… Where do you stand?” they read. They’re accompanied by a Bitcoin … …read more Source: San Francisco News By Google Zennie AbrahamZennie Abraham | Zennie Abraham or “Zennie62” is … Read more
Anti-Abortion Activists Rally in San FranciscoABC NewsThousands of abortion opponents are rallying in downtown San Francisco for the 10th annual “Walk for Life West Coast.” The protesters gathered at Civic Center Plaza in front of City Hall on Saturday before planning a march down Market Street to Justin …Anti-abortion activists to march in San FranciscoSacramento … Read more