SF News ‘Guerrilla Bench’ Activists Back At It, Install 12 More Lovely But Unauthorized Benches at Muni Stops The team of anonymous transit activists who put benches at Muni stops that had no benches in June has struck again, adding 12 new benches to bench-less bus stops in the Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Potrero Hill.
SF News SF City Hall Not at All Pleased With Those ‘Guerilla Benches’ That Some Renegades Placed at Bench-Less Muni Stops A month after a group of transit activists installed “guerilla benches” at SF bus stops that had no benches, the city’s Public Works Department says they will demand that these activists remove the unauthorized benches.
SF News Renegade Transit Activists Install their Own ‘Guerilla Benches’ at SF Bus Stops That Don’t Have Benches A rogue group of activists won’t stand for the lack of benches at many SF Muni stops, so they went and installed a bunch of their own unauthorized benches this past weekend. But we’ll see how this sits with SF Public Works.
SF News Public Works Deflects From Overflowing City Trash Can Complaints With Announcement of $12,000 ’Slim Silhouette’ Relaunch When Supervisor Danny Sauter requested more trash cans in his district, Public Works deflected by announcing the relaunch of the costly Slim Silhouette to replace existing ‘90s-era cans already on the streets, but they’re not adding additional trash cans to the mix, which doesn't solve the shortage.
SF News Mohammed Nuru’s Ex-Girlfriend Sandra Zuniga Gets Probation, Not Jail, For Laundering His Bribe Money SF’s former head of the Office of Neighborhood Services Sandra Zuniga, also known as “Girlfriend 1” in the FBI’s Mohammed Nuru indictment, will skate with just three years probation after a very favorable sentencing Thursday.
SF News Incredibly Pricey Trash Can Drama Returns, City Hall Committee Halts New Cans' Approval The saga of what were originally the widely derided $20,000 trash cans is back in the headlines, as a City Hall committee has put the final approval of the “Slim Silhouette” bins on hold over vandalism concerns.
SF News Photos: One of 24th Street’s Largest Ficus Trees Has Been Reduced to Sawdust and a Stump What may have been the largest ficus tree on all of 24th Street has bit the sawdust, as its branches were all chopped down Wednesday, and on Thursday it was removed entirely.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Public Works Sandbag Giveaway Resumes As Reinforcements Arrive Mayor Breed is getting some grief over storm preparedness, two below-ground theater venues found themselves completely flooded, and Public Works is handing out sandbags again after they ran out on Wednesday.
SF News SF Public Works Announces Winner Of ‘$20,000 Trash Can’ Contest — The Slim Silhouette A pricey bureaucratic process that’s littered the national press with San Francisco jokes has come to an end, as a survey and pilot program has led SF Public Works to choose the Slim Silhouette as the city’s new public trash can design.
SF News SF Public Works Will (Finally!) Clean Off Building Graffiti and Tagging For Free In a long-overdue move, SF Public Works will stop charging small businesses and building owners for having graffiti on their buildings, and instead come out and clean off the tagging for free.
SF News Behold! Your $20,000 Trash Cans Have Arrived In SF and Are Now At Your Disposal Your designer-label “smart” trash bins finally hit the streets of SF this week after a year of mockery over their exorbitant cost, and you can submit your thoughts on them — with a smartphone-enabled QR code of course.
SF News City Awards $2 Million to Family of 67-Year-Old Woman Killed by Public Works Truck Rui Xia Zhen was hit and killed by a Public Works truck in March 2020. Nearly two years later, her family finally has a settlement from the city.
SF News Petition Demands More Public Toilets For Homeless In The Tenderloin San Francisco is home to roughly 7,000 homeless residents, and, just like the rest of us, those individuals need to use the restroom. Instead of griping about this fact and blaming the
SF News Video: Tron-Like 3D Market Street Map Created By Laser Truck This past Sunday saw a strange sight, even by Market Street standards, when a laser-equipped motorcade made its sluggish way down Market Street. But perhaps you missed the LiDAR truck, which needed
SF News SF Hiring 'Potty-Sitters' To Monitor Public Toilets At $100,000 Per Toilet San Francisco's public restroom wrongdoers are being put on notice by a group of "potty-sitters," as the Chronicle calls these new hires who are being paid up to
Arts & Entertainment Behold 'Sweepy,' SF Public Works' Terrifying Mascot Sweepy's in the house for #SFPride2015 @GiantSweep Are you ready to march and celebrate? And keep SF beautiful? pic.twitter.com/zLiHcIpXVT — SF Public Works (@sfpublicworks) June 28, 2015 According to
