Current pricing for monthly bus pass is $45 and current one-time use of bus is $1.50.  Let's decrease the monthly pass to $25, but increase the one-time use fee to $2.00.  This will, I think, get the people who just get on the bus without paying, to pay for the lower one time fee.  This will also increase revenues from tourists.  Note that no public transit system is as efficient as Japan's, bu they pay about double or more what we pay.  For instance: A bus ride is based on how far you go, so 50 min bus ride may Read This Posty »

In my youth I enjoyed riding the cable cars as part of my transportation around The City.  Transfers or 25¢ was all it cost and I was on a Cable Car!  I still ride them, though far less frequently due to cost and limited space, but tourists know they are riding history and it makes up a big part of many of their trips.  Because the cable cars are so huge a part of a trip to SF the people who operate them are in a very unique position.  Good brakemen make it an even more joyous experience - ringing Read This Posty »

As a proud San Franciscan I go out of my way to help tourists (or anyone) with directions, local history, recommendations or to take pictures of them on their cameras.  I think The City should solicit such involvement from San Franciscans.  Sure - we have kinder people here than most cities (though not as kind as we were in the past to be sure), but not everyone will go out of their way to help people - and let them know - and feel - the unique loving quality of The City.  Give people a pass to something (a free Read This Posty »

SF "hearts" U campaign (like the I "heart" NY tee...)  It thanks ppl for coming and encourages them to ask for directions/assistance and in turn creates more helpful San Franciscans with more civic pride.  I've had this idea for a while and being in NYC last week gelled it for me.  I saw banners there that showed 'average New Yorkers' and it said something like 'Ask a local.'  And later in the week I saw a woman with a shirt in the same color as banners that said "I'm a local".  I think SF "hearts" U is much cuter and Read This Posty »

Here's an idea you'll never use:  Focus on San Francisco residents before tourists.  Start with the cable car lines.  Why is it that if I want to take a cable car from Powell/Market to say North Beach to have a nice dinner with my girlfriend, I have to wait in an unreasonable cable car line full of people who only desire to ride it all the way to the end?  Allow people with monthly fast passes to skip the line.  There are so few of them relative to the tourists in line that the affect on tourist wait times will Read This Posty »

In areas where homeless and transient people congregate, those new green paper bins should be removed.  Example: The corner of 7th/Market (check cashing corner) there are two of these green bins. They are separated just enough for a man to stand in between them and urinate w/o being exposed. The urine cascades out in front of the BART/MUNI entry stairs. This happens every day. It smells terrible and tourist notice them doing it which makes our City look bad. Terry Clark Read This Posty »

Would like to mention that the Community Justice Center is very effective but only if there are foot patrolmen to assist these unfortunate people go to the center. I realize that the PBA is very much against "beat police" but it is a proven and effective crime deterrent. We very badly need their presence in the Union Square area. Tourists avoid this area...read what Ichiro Suzuki, the great Japanese baseball player says about downtown San Francisco. Doesn't shop here any more. I have personally been told by dozens of visitors that they avoid the Union Square area because of its shoddy appearance Read This Posty »

I have several ideas for the city such as: renovated shopping mall, educational center, restaurant, hotels, tourist attraction, travel agencies and.... Fatemeh Nourael Read This Posty »

Well for over 12 years now I have been taking the 2819th Avenue Bus from the Sunset district out to Ghirardelli Square. This is the bus that goes to the lookout point right at the bridge where the gift shop and snack shop are located. on a regular basis.  With all the tourists visiting our city they of course flock to the bridge and then need directions to get to various points of interest within San Francisco.  Everyday there are literally lines of tourists especially during the Summer months who automatically get on any bus which stops at that point, Read This Posty »

Dear Mayor Newsom, if I were mayor, I would continue with your valiant efforts to improve both San Francisco citizens' quality of life and tourism by making San Francisco cleaner and more fun. The challenges are, of course, homelessness which is an eyesore, infrastructure maintenance, and better planning for a more "user friendly" city. For example, Golden Gate Park is very pretty to drive through, but seems to lack a center where people gather and sit and be social or people watch. I find this to be lacking in SF in general. Union Square doesn't really capture it, nor does Read This Posty »

Please, please soon pave the JFK lower drive(below transverse drive) in Golden Gate park. It is a major, major hazard for bicycles and terrible for cars and tourists! Jason Stillwater Read This Posty »

Every day I walk from the Powell Street Muni station to my office on Sutter Street.  There is trash on the sidewalks on Ellis Street, Mason Street and Sutter Street.  How about if we introduced a program which would fine the owners of the businesses if they do not regularly clean up the sidewalks and street in front of their business?  It's another made in New York program which we should copy. Also, there are many of the recycling and garbage containers which have strewn all around them from people rummaging through them at night.  I don't have a solution for Read This Posty »

Dear Mr. Newsom,                         As people come over the Bay Bridge they see the wonderful views and must think WOW, what a GREAT city.  Then they get off at 5th Street and Harrison and reality sets in. They see 1-3 people begging at this corner.  They see trash cans that have ravaged and their contents dumped by scavengers. Is this the first real impression we want to give visitors? Much has been done at this corner.  The street sweepers come every night and clean one side and then the other Read This Posty »

Work with ILWU and Princess Lines to solve the embarkation issues. It was the talk of several thousand locals and passengers. I heard that SF was the most expensive and the most frustrating experience in both getting on and getting off the ship. For example, we boarded two hours late and both ships scheduled to depart at four left at ten p.m.  They say this is the last ship for Mexico departing from SF. The local suppliers as well as SF patrons will no have to go to LA or San Diego. The reason given was that ILWU will not Read This Posty »

We must mkae SF the first stop city for any Asians come visitiing our country; provide the the most safe place, comfortable hotels, and lots of goods to buy and qn unique place for them - left their heart in SF. Since Shanghai is the sister city of SF, and the spending power of the people their are increasing every year. We should create the oportunities for them to come see the greatest city of the country and the world. This will create lots of jobs and economic growth for SF. Jason Chan Read This Posty »

In an area close to the cable car turnaround at Aquatic Park, a tourist center similar to the one at Powell and Market, would enable people at the wharf to have access to information relating to all the amenities o the city.  I have photographed 40 of the different neighberhoods in SF and to have a display of these would enable the tourists and the local to see some of these that they normally would not have time to see or were not aware. Marilyn Dalton Read This Posty »

Greetings,   I live in France, near Geneva, and work for the World Health Organization as a Resource Mobilization Officer. However, I formerly lived in San Francisco for fifteen years (until 2004), still consider it my beloved home, and it is where I am registered to vote. So, hopefully you will not mind my contributing a suggestion.   I am certain you have heard scores of ideas, and mine I am sure is not new in and of itself. In any case...   Have you considered if San Francisco might be a "sister city" to the city of Beaune, France?   I know that the former Mayor explored Read This Posty »

San Franciscoís tourists are a significant part of our economy.  We are proud of San Francisco and most San Franciscan's love showing off their city.  To lock in San Francisco as one of the best tourist destinations in the world we could easily create a citizen-led tourist guide service.   If managed carefully, this concept would cost the city absolutely nothing. The concept is simple.  The city uses viral and other free channels including sfconnect.org to advertise the concept of volunteer guides.  We attract citizens who have detailed insight regarding the various neighborhoods of San Francisco.  To be ìapprovedî as a volunteer Read This Posty »