LETS GET SOME FUCKING STOP SIGNS FOR 19th AND DOLORES YALL

Hi Internet.

I'd like to share a story from the other day.  It was a nice day.  A little windy but nice.  It was Friday.  I have a little routine that I like to do on Friday afternoons: I take my phone to Dolores Park with a bottle of MD20/20 (I like Red Grape) and answer all the emails I ignored over the week.  Afterwards I go black out at a bar.  So anyway, I finished up pregaming in the sun and was crossing Dolores to go to Valencia and this total cunt of a lady (who I sure is nice and was just having a bad day but FUCK HER) barrels through the intersection in her stupid green Prius honking at me and not slowing down even though i'm in the middle of the road.  She came within 18 inches of hitting me… close enough for me to spit on her car, scream “you crazy bitch” and give her rear bumper a little love tap with my bike.

Anyway, the point is this:

  1. that intersection is a fucking death trap waiting to happen
  2. fuck Noe Valley
  3. fuck priuses
  4. fuck the city for taking 13 years to get anything done
  5. fuck the dolores park bathrooms
  6. I need to get laid for the first time in 13 and a half months, get drunk and calm down

So yeah, give me a fucking set of stop signs or I'm motherfucking doing it myself.  That's right, I'm willing to actually contribute my time to making this world a better place (for myself, fuck the rest of you).  My stop signs will be made with stolen plywood, some spraypaint and pure distain.  They'll also look like Janet Reno's face but that's what you get when functional alcoholics do what the city should have done years ago.

Also, if anyone wants to help make these stop signs, I'll totally give you a beer and let you play with my chainsaw*.  Holler in the comments and I'll get in touch (not until Friday thou).

(photo by Jamison Wiser.  I wish my mom named me Jamison)

* that isn't a sexual thing

Comments (16)

next time a prius pulls that shit, toss your MD 20/20 empty at it and say you’re just sending the bottle back to the Earth….

How about volunteer crossing guards ?

WOAH! Thirteen and a half months?!?!?!

Straight kids have it rough.

I’m seeing “hipsters crossing” signs and flashing lights that activates only on sunny days between 11 am and 6 pm.

Or if we want to kill two birds with one stone, how about we just use the SF Mime troupe as speed bumps? It would be their best performance ever.

I’m sure we can jack some stop signs from Pac Heights* and re-appropriate them to that intersection.

*since the yuppies just roll right through them in their Bentleys and Mercedes & can’t be bothered to stop.

There’s a light at 20th and a light at 18th. One at 19th would be overkill.

If you’re that worried about being run-over, go to one of those intersections and stop being such a nancy.

Yes, Floyd. Spot on, brother. Not only has no one been nearly “run-over” at 18th or 20th, but expecting to cross a street safely through a crosswalk is such a bullshit “nancy” move. You little nancy, Kevin. For shame.

in the great state of california, the moment a pedestrian hits a painted crosswalk they have the right of way. The last time i was in LA I crossed Wilshire at a crosswalk. that’s 8 lanes of LA traffic that stopped moving for me, so I’m pretty sure we can do without a fucking stop sign at 19th. besides i’ve never seen anyone get hit on that street.

You take your life in your hands crossing there. When I’m driving and actually stop for someone crossing, I’m pretty convinced that some car flying down the hill is either going to plow into me, or swerve around and blow the person out of the intersection.

18 and Dolores constantly has people getting hit, and that has lights and finally a pedestrian counter….

I highly sympathize with the overall message (I live just down 19th from the park), but, as a cyclist, I know while I’m riding my bike, I am not a pedestrian. Cars are not required to yield for other moving vehicles in a crosswalk. Maybe you were walking your bike.

I was thinking the same thing. He mentions his bike in the article, which made me wonder if he was riding it. I get just as frustrated when someone bikes in front of me and expects me to immediately yield (share the road? it seems like you think you own it); hopefully he was walking his bike if he was expecting pedestrian rules.

I was walking my bike, not that it should matter. By your standard, I should not be allowed to bike across 19th to the park, which is unfair. You’re barreling down a hill in a 1 ton death machine at 30 miles an hour, I’m 190 pounds of human flesh and 25 pounds of metal.

Well, your bike is a vehicle when you are on it, so if you want to bike across 19th to the park, you have to wait for the cross traffic just as though you were a car. (Also, you have to stop at stop signs, signal, etc.) Just because cars are bigger doesn’t mean that you have an unfettered right of way when you are on the bike. Otherwise, a garbage truck would always have to yield to a hatchback civic.

When walking the bike, then you become a pedestrian, and are protected by the pedestrian laws. On the bike? Then you may as well consider yourself a car.

No, by my standard you can bike across if there’s no cars present. You can walk across even if there are, and they should stop. It’s just that bikes move faster, and are more difficult to react to, as you must scan much more of your peripheral area. There is a reason traffic laws distinguish bikes vs. pedestrians. I think if I showed you a video of the types of bike crossings I am thinking of, you would likely agree they are both inconsiderate and have a death wish. I hate seeing it when I bike almost as much as when I am behind the wheel of a car.

It’s CVC 21200 man, if you’re pedaling you have “all the rights and is subject to all the
provisions the driver of a vehicle”.

If the driver of a vehicle (automobile ~or~ bicycle) at 19th pulls in front of a car coming down Dolores and expects that car to stop for any reason (“I live in the Mission, dude! And I’m green and sustainable!”) they deserve what happens.

I was walking my bike, not that it should matter.” If you were walking your bike it does matter, you’re a pedestrian when walking your bike and the car should stop.

Totally anonymous tool here. Yeah, ditto on bike ride v. bike walk. Maybe it shouldn’t matter, but it does. You were walking, though, so prius bitch is really a fucking bitch. Personally I’d like to see cars within the city limits share the same fate as handguns. If you outlaw cars, only outlaws have cars, and outlaws have some AWESOME CARS.