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I just came back from my visit to New York; I was amazed to find no graffiti, few panhandlers, and clean streets. No one there even attempts to board the back of the bus. Here is common practice.
I went to some places like Greenwich Village, Times Square, and same thing. In San Francisco, it is hard to go down street without being physically and verbally accosted by panhandlers. When I asked people about they told me that panhandlers know that the police will enforce the law about aggressive panhandlers. Here, in San Francisco, they know that nothing will happen. They know that graffiti is stiff fine. Here, we do nothing. As far as boarding the back of the bus, I was told that people knew it was stiff fine and they would throw you off the bus. Here it is so common that on certain routes, the people boarding the back of the bus will prevent legitimate fare payers from getting on the bus.
There is some thing wrong when a city of New York can do this and we can’t or won’t. To me the solution is simple, enforce the law on aggressive panhandling, make graffiti a stiff penalty and if some one boards the back of the bus, fine them, and then have them removed from the bus.
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April 6th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Read comment #1. Are you the same poster?
April 6th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
If it is the same person, I concur with them again.