Church and 30th St. San Francisco MUNI Construction from Ken Murphy on Vimeo.

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a sucker for time-lapse video, so I apologize in advance if you are sick of seeing this stuff.  That said, the intersection of 30th and Church (on the J Church line) was replaced over the weekend (you can read more about it over at Streetsblog) and a resident took the initiative to film it:

This is a time-lapse video showing the replacement of the MUNI tracks in front of my house. Demolition began on the evening of Friday, October 8, and work continued around the clock until early in the morning of Tuesday, October 12. The MUNI folks were nice enough to distribute earplugs to those of us in the immediate vicinity.

The video probably could have been sped up a little, but it gets more interesting around 3:30 when they start laying down track and 9:30 when they cement it over.  Also, I know they are completely separate projects, but watching local construction crews power through a $3m project in four and a half days makes me wonder why we cannot tackle the Dolores Park renovation with comparable hustle.  18 months is bullshit.  I need to do important things like get drunk in public and yell.

The SF Examiner is reporting that our beautiful, litter-less city is now going after our last remaining urban eyesore:

City officials want to issue “fix-it” tickets or warnings to drivers whose trucks are covered with graffiti to help abolish the urban eyesores.

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“There’s no law right now that says you have to abate the graffiti,” said Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who sits on The City’s Graffiti Advisory Board and helped coordinate the program. “These trucks are ugly. They’re urban blight. They make neighborhoods look abandoned.”

The city wants to encourage truck owners to paint their vehicles that lovely military green that we see covering utility boxes all over the city, as they apparently are more difficult to vandalize, and issue citations to those who don't.  Naturally, the city failed to recognize that many of these trucks are covered in commissioned graffiti for the specific reason to fight against random tags (the Examiner piece even features a truck painted by Reyes to highlight the issue).  What will be allowed as 'legitimate' truck art and disallowed under the law?  Certainly the opinion of the director of Public Works is already biased against sanctioned mobile murals.  Can't wait to see how this one goes down…

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Nuzz, one of my favorite photographers in the Mission, snapped the above photo and had this to say:

While wandering around shooting, I met this cute girl in the mission that drives a classic right hand drive Mini Cooper. I love San Francisco.

(photo by nuzz)

This bike has been parked at my office a lot lately.  I have no clue what kind of bike it really is [EDIT: mud flap says 'Honda'], but I give the owner mad props for being infinitely cooler than all the middle aged bikers in my building who ride boring ass BMW road bikes and Ducatis.