Another update from SF.Streetsblog on the start of new bike lanes, posts and even a bike box. The San Francisco Bike Coalition will offer a run down today and there are also drinks at the Duboce Park Cafe that start at 5:30. The Mission doesn’t get much out of this one, but hey, the more bike lanes the better.
Recently, I’ve noticed an increasing number of bikers—from the middle aged to the young and without helmets—on the East West sidewalks of the Mission. There’s too little room out there on the street. But look at this photo. Walked by the Make-Out Room awhile back and felt like I was in Amsterdam.
Some vaguely encouraging news in the exercise realm with Jill Tucker at the Chronicle reporting that more California students passed the state fitness test–almost 34 percent. Yep, only vaguely upbeat.
In the eat’s division, we mentioned SF Magazine’s nod to Duc Loi’s new burger bar last week, but the December issue of also gave three stars to Saison on Folsom. Sounds pricey, but good.
CBS re-posts an Andy Kroll piece from Mother Jones on the foreclosure crisis in which he mentions a Dorothea Lange photo taken of a Mission District breadline.
Street vendors in the Mission have long tried to make a go of it during hard times. I’m even trying to convince the ML staff that we need to get a cart, but mostly, they roll their eyes. Meanwhile, Veronica Moscoso reports on how impossible getting a permit would be.
And looking around to updates on the Muni stabbing, I don’t find a whole lot more on the suspect pictured here.
But interesting to look at crimesspotting to see how few incidents of aggravated assault there have been recently in the Mission and how much prostitution goes on here compared to other areas.