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chris arvin
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designer. transit lover. SFMTA CAC member. they/them, 32. check out my transit art shop at transit.supply and my free local election maps at electionmapsf.com
San Francisco, CAchrisarv.inJoined February 2011
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one of those newspaper archive sites added my hometown newspaper and i found this from when i was 3 and i must say…the brand is strong
i 1 1 ) 4, veering Dear Santa: Please bring me a big train like the one at Steeplegate mall. My sister and I would give rides to everyone. Please bring me Thomas the Tank Engine books, plastic trains, clothes and also wooden Thomas Trains. Thomas the Tank Engine is my favorite. Thank you. I love you. Christopher Arvin 3 1/2, Concord
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here’s a fun one i don’t think i’ve posted before — back when muni’s 7 haight line was a streetcar, it operated north/south through golden gate park on its own dedicated path. that path is publicly accessible today!
poorly drawn outline of path on a satellite map
historic photo of streetcar exiting golden gate park
street view of path today
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Maddy Ruvolo
@maddyruvolo
I know it's very san francisco to be like people are not paying enough attention to san francisco but it's nice that someone is reading and summarizing our letters to the CPUC because it does feel like more people should know what's happening here!
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David Zipper
@DavidZipper
NEW: In a blunt letter to California regulators, San Francisco officials outlined many, many ways in which Cruise’s robotaxis are making a mess of city streets. It’s pretty wild. 🧵 below
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this morning i missed a flight to palm springs so i got on the next flight which was to LA, and guess what is right between LA and palm springs a super cool streetcar museum that has cats
me & a black and white cat
a red and orange southern pacific streetcar
interior of a historic streetcar
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Claudine
@claudinerlco
Thanks to this map, I got to visit with Truck at
@FloraGrubb
today w/
@jeaninesw
). Sweet, sleepy kitty.
A grey tabby cat named Truck snoozes under a metal shelf at Flora Grubb
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San Francisco Store Cats by Chris Arvin · @chrisarvinsf Lilly: Michaelis · Fillmore & Union Fufu: S&S Grocery · Grant & Union Sun Sun Trading · Stockton & Pacific Animal House · Fillmore & Waller Mishmish: Mid-City Market · Geary & Larkin Kiano: O’looney’s Market · Haight & Steiner Dogg: George’s Market · 14th & Church Toasty & Meow Meow: Seven · 25th & Irving Kit Kat: Randa’s Market · 16th & Valencia Truck: Flora Grubb · 3rd & Jerrold Boots: Hey Neighbor Café · San Bruno & Burrows Amity Market · 44th & Taraval Ginger: George · Florida & 18th Hamachi: Barebottle Brew Co · Cortland & Bradford Cici: Food 24 Market · 6th & Clement Photos mine except: Lily – David N. on Yelp. Fufu– Ben G. on Yelp, Boots – Max Ramirez. Mid-City Market – @alistumblrv2. Ruby – Jerry @skttrbrain. Hamachi – Barebottle. Ginger – Sammy @iamsamantic
checked four stores today (and made some unnecessary purchases), unfortunately most of the cats were sleeping in a non-public part of the store but i am delighted to add Cici, the first richmond district cat to be added to the map!
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note: i'm looking solely at citations issued on buses/surface vehicles, there are more if you add citations given at stations. also: most citations are not even paid. looking at citations issued in September, as of December 21, 43% were still unpaid and another 24% were waived.
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here's an example of a calendar that fare inspectors use for route assignments, from November 2022. each week day that month, two or three shifts were assigned to the 49 Van Ness-Mission line.
SFMTA Proof of Payment Deployment Calendar, November 2022. Each weekday includes 49 line for enforcement on two or three shifts, with some days including the 29, 5, 19, 24, 22, 30, 48, N and J lines.
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last year SFMTA massively ramped up fare enforcement. in November, they issued 2,808 citations – $125 each for not paying a $2.50 fare. a third were given on one stretch of Mission St in the Mission. that area was targeted *every weekday* that month, including Thanksgiving.
Text: SFMTA issued 2,808 Muni fare evasion citations –$125 fines – in November 2022. One third of them were on this stretch of Mission Street. They targeted that area every single weekday, even Thanksgiving. Mission & 16th: 114 Citations Mission & 24th: 111 citations Mission & 30th: 76 citations Mission & Silver: 54 citations Source; SFMTA Public Records Request
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uhh what. at the BART board meeting this week John McPartland, on the board of directors, uses the term "cotton-pickin' inspirational" to describe *checks notes* the agency's racial equity initiatives best to just nix that one from your vocabulary dude
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watched all of the dirty harry movies for the first time recently and while they are very much cop propaganda they also have some cool shots of SF in the 70s/80s
Red orange and white muni train entering the sunset tunnel
Shot of Cole st between parnassus and Carl in the 80s
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Michael
@scottgoblue314
The MTA Board correctly identified the main source of conflict, and potential danger, on Slow Streets as everyone attempting to police their own interpretation of the rules on the signs. The mayor doesn't like the rules and wants the signs gone. Guess who gets priority!
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more watering down of slow streets: SFMTA just covered up the words “local traffic only” on signs on page slow street — despite the city traffic engineer approving making the restriction permanent, a board vote on it next tuesday, and 85% of residents supporting the restriction.
Slow streets signs with “local traffic only” covered up
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*that* san francisco bike protest group
@SafeStreetRebel
What should we write in the blank space? Best answer wins
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more watering down of slow streets: SFMTA just covered up the words “local traffic only” on signs on page slow street — despite the city traffic engineer approving making the restriction permanent, a board vote on it next tuesday, and 85% of residents supporting the restriction.
Slow streets signs with “local traffic only” covered up
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more watering down of slow streets: SFMTA just covered up the words “local traffic only” on signs on page slow street — despite the city traffic engineer approving making the restriction permanent, a board vote on it next tuesday, and 85% of residents supporting the restriction.
Slow streets signs with “local traffic only” covered up
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Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
@FitzTheReporter
“Maybe we cried too much last year,” Walgreens’ chief financial officer James Kehoe said during an earnings call, in which he acknowledged that losses from shoplifting, which reduced the drugstore chain’s earnings by about 3.5 % last year, had diminished to the “mid twos."
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San Francisco Chronicle
@sfchronicle
A top Walgreens executive conceded Thursday that pharmacy chain brass may have overstated the threat of organized retail theft last year, according to a report from CNBC. trib.al/pTKeoUD
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