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Opinion on Gavin Newsom’s cameras on buses.
September 12, 2007
We should be the first city to have a camera on our Mayor. This way we will have proof every time they fail to approve new parking structures, additional garage spaces and retail zones without adequate parking. The problem is not the citizens and visiting patrons that leave millions of dollars of sales tax revenue to the chauffeured staff of the City of San Francisco. The double-parking problem is also not the families who try to live in a city that gouges every penny from if you need to have a car and aren’t fortunate enough to find a parking spot within 2 block of their front door so they can unload their Warehouse store purchase 200 rolls of paper towels or pick up their 80 year old mother from a low income apartment scattered along the busiest bus routes in San Francisco.
Mr. Newsom’s idea to waste money on bus cameras is cute and cleaver, but not a real solution. More tickets are creating more problems than solutions. Many who are caught in the ticket hell are resorting to using disposable cars where they run up tickets until it’s booted and then just get a new car from one of the low key street sellers that have a ample supply of cheap cars under $1000 from the City’s Auction lot. Instead of camera’s let’s try more parking spaces, less retail zones, more white zones and different bus routes. Mr. Mayor and staff, let’s cut the camera junk and take responsibility for the city that you’re suppose to be helping not hurting with you’re ideas for more and more nuisances for shoppers, visitors and families. Don’t take the millions in retail sales tax revenue and property San Francisco gets for granted, you must use it for those who are supplying it and give them parking and a thought out flow of development now!
Robert Howard
2883 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
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September 13th, 2007 at 6:12 am
yes
September 15th, 2007 at 3:40 am
This is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard! If you want to live a car-centric suburban lifestyle, there are plenty of places that offer that. Cities should be responsibly built, dense, public-transit centric. I realize MUNI needs major improvement, but adding parking, and ENCOURAGING driving is the complete opposite of what we should do. We should charge tolls to cars entering the city, even residents, increase parking rates at garages and meters, charge MORE to allow in large vehicles like SUVs and ban tour busses from city streets. All money from tolls and parking should go DIRECTLY to MUNI improvement. I say all this as someone who lives downtown, owns a car, and pays a lot of money to park it here. Although I use the car only for trips outside of the city, and I walk and take public transit in the city, I would be affected by the things I propose. I’m ok with that because it’s the right thing to do. If you or I want to have a car in the city, we should have to pay for that privelege and luxury. Why don’t you try living responsibly or just move to Walnut Creek, Mr. Robert Howard 2883 Folsom Street.