Comments for A little feedback from a soft hit post

Comment on A full day of time lapse photography in 26:20 by softhitpost

softhitpost — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:58:01 +0000

Completely agreed! The Kuala Lumpur one makes me wonder if that city might be single-handedly causing global warming. Though it might be fun to ride the monorail to the night market.

The Venice one makes me want to move there.

And thanks! For the warm fuzzy. I just published a couple of really really really long posts, which I hope will help make up for some of the lack of frequency.

Comment on A full day of time lapse photography in 26:20 by cobalt

cobalt — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:07:47 +0000

It’s interesting – the Venice one makes me want to take a vacation there. The Kuala Lumpur had the exact opposite reaction, despite the better music pairing/timing with the visuals.
If downtime means you post more (without injury), all to the good.

Comment on Why did the chicken cross the road? by cobalt

cobalt — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:56:10 +0000

SVBC organized a Tour de Coop as well – I missed it because I was out of town, but there’s always next year. http://bikesiliconvalley.org/event/2741
Like the blog. Hope you post more.

Comment on Why did the chicken cross the road? by Cyclelicious » Chickens and road design

Cyclelicious » Chickens and road design — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:53:44 +0000

[...] write all of this as an introduction to Sarah in San Francisco, who brilliantly compares designing for chickens to designing roads for people in her introductory essay at Soft Hit Post. Like a child drawing a [...]

Comment on Daleks in Manhattan by cheese (s3)

cheese (s3) — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:52:49 +0000

It all makes sense now! Amazing that the BBC got something right which is not located in Cardiff. Because daleks can only traverse smooth surfaces (ok I know there was an episode where they had little rockets to go up some stairs but…) they plotted to have roads cover all available space. What a bunch of jerks.

They truely were/are the most evil garbage bins in all of space and time.

Maybe we could repurpose some daleks as actual garbage bins in public spaces, than they might help to activate some areas for a change. Not sure that the skaters could deal with those bumpy things but delek husks would still make great street furniture in London, Manhatten, or anywhere.

Comment on Acteeevate! by Michael Armida

Michael Armida — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:48:57 +0000

That last quote came from: http://www.sfbike.org/?vote12_d5_selby

Comment on Acteeevate! by Michael Armida

Michael Armida — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:47:02 +0000

A quote from District 5 Supervisorial Candidate Thea Selby's response to the SFBC questionaire:

Activation, activation, activation! The more we are on the streets, with bikes and feet, and parklets, the more active the streets are, the slower the cars. The more active the streets are, the safer we are.

PS: did you know Hope Johnson supports license plates for bicycles? Hahahhahahahahahhahahhahahahhahahahahahahahastuhs;jkwh,lacr.pgtaeosuhtneuhzx

Comment on The Golden Age of B Geary by Brad

Brad — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 07:06:40 +0000

Very well written article. This is clearly an issue that needs to be addressed and I hope more members of the community such as yourself will raise these concerns with SFMTA for those of us not as knowledgeable. Here’s to hoping for a light rail or subway line down Geary one day!

Comment on Why did the chicken cross the road? by softhitpost

softhitpost — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 07:51:46 +0000

Ha. And a chicken coop bicycle tour too! How delightfully awkward. I’m sorry I missed it. Years ago, I went on a few of my own self-guided tours of the Bay Farm Island bird sanctuary. It’s one of my favorite places in the Bay Area to ride.

Comment on The Big Market Street Do-Over – An Overview by softhitpost

softhitpost — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:50:53 +0000

Oh my objections to boond*ggle are purely emotional and not at all related to its appropriateness or its actual overuse by any objective measure. For me it has just a hint of that listening-to-the-golfing-for-Jesus-audio-series vibe, which just makes it all the more applicable to a number of protracted and endlessly detoured city planning projects and studies, past and present (but usually both). In fact, at an SFMTA meeting I attended today, I was shocked that the word wasn’t used even once by a particular board member who was especially disenchanted with the fact the Geary BRT project appears to have made little-to-no progress in the last 8 years, and this after BRT was touted and promoted for being oh so much quicker, easier, and cheaper to implement than rail. If I weren’t handicapped by such an inexplicable and visceral reaction to the word, I’d perhaps have used it myself during the public comment period.