Parking will be temporarily banned on busy Powell Street in San Francisco November 27, 2009
Posted by californiabeat in San Francisco.Tags: December, Meters, Parking, plan, Powell, San Francisco, sustainable streets
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By WENDY STEWART
Beat Staff Writer
Street parking on San Francisco’s busy Powell Street between Ellis and Geary Sts. would be eliminated to allow for more pedestrian space during one weekend of the busy December holiday shopping season if a proposal by the city’s Sustainable Streets program is approved.
The proposal suggests eliminating metered parking at the curb from 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 4 until 9:00 a.m. Monday, Dec. 7. on a two-block length of the street so pedestrians will have more sidewalk space on what’s considered to be a busy shopping weekend in the Union Square area. (more…)
Bay Area Snapshot: Standing Tribute November 24, 2009
Posted by californiabeat in Multimedia, San Francisco.Tags: Holocaust, Land's End, Memorial, photo, San Francisco
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Holocaust Memorial // Land’s End, San Francisco
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occassional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Major MUNI changes lie ahead, Routes discontinued, reshuffled November 23, 2009
Posted by californiabeat in San Francisco.Tags: bus, Changes, December 5, Metro, MUNI, service, Streetcar
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By TIM JUE
Beat Staff Writer
Come Dec. 5, you’ll have to squint a little harder to see your MUNI bus barreling down the street.
A litany of reroutes, line changes and truncations will take place that day on over half of the transit agency’s 80 routes. Those changes are poised to usher in a new era of transit service in San Francisco — altering a network of bus, rail and cable car lines that have remained relatively unchanged since the 1980s. (more…)
Bay Area Snapshot: The non-gridlock November 22, 2009
Posted by californiabeat in Multimedia, San Francisco.Tags: Geary Blvd., Japantown, photo, Roadway, San Francisco
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Geary Blvd. // Steiner, San Francisco
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occassional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Anger boils at UC campuses after tuition hike; Students protest, clash with police over increase November 20, 2009
Posted by californiabeat in Central Valley, East Bay, Monterey Bay, Politics.Tags: Education, fee, Hike, Mark Yudof, Mrak, Protests, Regents, students, takeover, tuition, UC, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, Wheeler
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By WENDY STEWART
Beat Staff Writer
BERKELEY — Protesting students at several University of California campuses clashed with police for a third-straight day Friday, angered by a UC Regents vote to raise tuition at all nine institutions by 32 percent.
At UC Berkeley, 40 student protesters were cited and released by authorities after staging a 14-hour occupation of Wheeler Hall that started at 5:30 a.m. The protesters barricaded themselves inside a second floor classroom and unfurled a banner decrying recent cuts to higher education funding and the tuition fee hike. (more…)
BAY AREA SNAPSHOT: Access denied November 19, 2009
Posted by californiabeat in Multimedia, Peninsula.Tags: clock tower, door, logon, password, photo, Stanford, University
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Stanford University // Palo Alto, Calif.
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occassional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Effectiveness of SF Mayor’s office threatened by turmoil November 17, 2009
Posted by californiabeat in Politics, San Francisco.Tags: City Hall, Gavin Newsom, Governor, Hawaii, Kevin Ryan, Nathan Ballard, Politics, resignations, San Francisco
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By WENDY STEWART
Beat Staff Writer
Marked by two high-profile resignations of key Mayoral staffers in as many days in the Gavin Newsom administration, increased speculation swirled at San Francisco City Hall Tuesday that there was continuing tension between the Mayor and his aides.
Political experts say that the turmoil, coupled with Newsom’s erratic behavior of late, is raising doubts about the effectiveness of the Mayor’s office. (more…)
