San Francisco, CA
Potholes: What’s causing them, and the science that could make roads more durable
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — When you drive within the Bay Space, likelihood is you’ve got already been a sufferer of a pothole.
“Each county is seeing potholes. Proper now we have now our upkeep crews out making these repairs,” mentioned Pedro Quintana, public info officer for Caltrans.
From the air, SKY7 captured crews repairing potholes Monday on northbound lanes of Freeway 101 in Redwood Metropolis. Up shut, the numbers are staggering. In San Francisco, the general public works division studies a median of 600 potholes a month. They’ve already surpassed that quantity within the first 13 days of Jan. Our highways are additionally saturated with potholes.
MORE: 391 studies of potholes throughout Bay Space in final 12 days, Caltrans says
“In 2022 for your complete month of January, we had about 380 reported potholes throughout the area. Ranging from this month January 1, 2023 to till now, we have now seen over 400 reported potholes all through out highways,” mentioned Quintana.
What’s inflicting them? Prove the rain is just aggravating the injury that was already there.
“We’re enjoying catch-up proper now and we simply obtained this huge rainfall, so a whole lot of these pavements that obtained cracked once we did not come up with the money for, are actually the water is getting in and items are coming out,” mentioned John Harvey.
MORE: ‘Pothole Vigilantes’ come out at evening to repair Oakland streets
UC Davis professor John Harvey is the Director of the UC Pavement Analysis Heart. Within the lab, his workforce is testing a mix of supplies to assist our roads last more.
“We’re taking a look at greater recycled content material utilizing previous asphalt pavement in new asphalt pavement, however with one thing known as rejuvenators. We’re taking a look at concrete that has much less cement in it,” mentioned professor Harvey and added, “Utilizing tire rubber within the floor. Recycle tire rubber helps us get overlays of asphalt that might last more. They will trip out over the cracks higher and deal with that motion over the cracks. There are additionally polymers which are included in asphalt. Beginning to look somewhat bit at recycled roofing shingles and sooner or later, additional out sooner or later beginning to have a look at pine tree-based resins and oils to convey into the pavement to assist soften and recycle.”
Professor Harvey says extra must be finished to keep up roads, not simply react when potholes occur.
“These cracks there. The injury was finished over years of underneath funding,” mentioned Professor Harvey.
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A shooting in an alley in San Francisco’s Mission District left one person dead Saturday, San Francisco police said.
Officers responded to a report of a shooting about 4 a.m. on Wiese Street, an alley between 15th Street and 16th Street. The location is near Mission Street and BART’s 16th Street station.
The victim was taken to a hospital where they were pronounced dead, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the San Francisco Police Department’s tip line at 415-575-4444 or send a text to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.
San Francisco, CA
The EndUp Turns 50 and They're Taking Over Union Square With a Dance Party Saturday
That venerable, inimitable, sloppy palace of bad decisions The EndUp was born 50 (and a half) years ago, and they’re now getting around to celebrating — appropriately kinda late — with a Union Square takeover dance party.
Once upon a time in an era of SoMa dominated by leather and country-and-western bars (The Stud, after all, began as a country-and-western themed bar, hence the double-entendre name), The EndUp was born. It was actually born in mid-November 1973, as a sibling establishment to The RoundUp, a western bar one block up 6th Street, owned by Al Hanken and Greg Loughner.
The bar was primarily gay from the 70s into the 90s, becoming known starting in 1974 for its Jockey Shorts Dance Contest — which was featured in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City column in the Chronicle and subsequently featured in the PBS mini-series based on the first book of those columns.
It was always known as a big dance bar with indoor and outdoor spaces, and as an after-hours club — and the latter has made it legendary in an IYKYK kind of way.
In the 90s, it was home to the legendary Club Uranus, which birthed such stars as Justin Vivian Bond, Heklina, Kitty Litter, and Trauma Flintstone. And Fag Fridays launched in 1996 and ran through 2008, featuring an array of LGTBQ club DJs from the Bay Area including Ellen Ferrato and resident DJ David Harness.
After a series of ownership changes and the demise of those weekly LGBTQ events, the club became more mixed and attracted various crowds to events like Sunrise Sunday. And some bad vibes arrived in 2016 with two separate fatal shooting incidents that could have threatened the club’s existence — one in June 2016 that took place inside the club, and one that took place outside in October 2016.
But The EndUp has endured, it was granted Legacy Business status by the city in 2019, and Saturday, June 15 will be a big 50th birthday bash in Union Square — potentially drawing a pretty huge crowd.
Given that the actual birthday was seven months ago, the Facebook invite just calls this party a “fashionably late” one.
“Known as San Francisco’s most legendary after-hours nightclub and premier day-club, @endupsf celebrates dance culture fifty years strong since 1973,” the club says.
DJs include Oscar G, Paul Goodyear, Dean Samaras, Brian Salazar, and Hawthorne. (See the DJ bios here.)
The free party in Union Square runs from 1 pm to 9 pm, Saturday — and, of course, the party continues at The EndUp after that, with DJ Oscar G doing an encore set, joined by DJs Hawthorne, Steve Fabus, and more.
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