Gilded Garbage Can: Recent Episodes
Mark Delicio
It’s been a while since we reviewed some of the wit, wisdom, cluelessness, and stupidity of our favorite useless app.
Learn about today's grocery shopping experience and why the initials "TJ" will from now on mean "traumatic journey" to me.
I went to the immersive Van Gogh exhibit recently and I highly recommend the show, but this episode is not about the exhibit.
The “improvement” project to the Van Ness corridor, which is really code for, “we want to create even more dedicated bus lanes to reward the incompetence of MUNI,” began about five years ago and was supposed to be finished in three years.
Recently, the brain trust at the MTA decided, “let’s mess with those evil automobile drivers yet again.”
Let’s start the new year by reviewing the old one, Gilded Garbage Can style, as we look back at the topics covered in 2020.
In looking for inspiring topics to gnaw on today, I moseyed over to everyone’s favorite website – that virtual think tank of keen observation of the obvious – Nextdoor.
There’s an unwritten rule in city politics: Be good at powers of observation...not powers of vision or leadership.
From the "Only in SF" file: SF Public Works, to make it look like they’re doing something important, needs residents to vote on one of 3 garbage can designs as the city seeks to waste money replacing 3,000 existing cans that only serve as vandalism targets.
When it comes to San Francisco politics, despite the assertion that supervisors are nonpartisan, they do fall into one or more distinct parties of sorts and those affiliations come with consequences.
It’s time for another installment of “City Hall hates cars and drivers but loves issuing parking tickets and does everything it can to extort money by tripping you up.”
Outdoor dining, ridiculous neighbors, MUNI, and the Department of Public Works cannot escape this week's defogging!
No matter how optimal the circumstances, the city simply never finishes anything it starts.
The city is spending a ton of money on marketing the project, so it can't possibly be good.
An entire lane of an entire thoroughfare dedicated to a single, unreliable bus? We must be talking transit in the Gilded Garbage Can!
There are some good things about San Francisco - this episode is dedicated to sharing them.
Follow me as I describe, in somewhat graphic detail, my ride on the Gilded Garbage Train known to most as BART.
Today, we have fun playing a word association (of sorts) game: Is it "gilded" or is it "garbage?"
An intro to Gilded Garbage Can, a podcast dedicated to defogging the image that is San Francisco.