1.  LGBT Rights - Try LGBT essay topics in curriculum.  They can be diced up decently with few objections. 2. Gansta Rap - Encourage Anti-Gangsta Rap.  It can sound just as good. Johnny Chan Read This Posty »

Hire traffic police who (like meter maids) are separate from peace officers.  They will more than pay for themselves with the traffic violations they cite for illegal turns, speeding, failure to yield to pedestrians, etc. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

My latest smart solution is the smartest of them all.  Ban this "Ivan Watkins" person from posting further on this site.  He obviously have nothing valuable, or constructive to say.  He also lacks basic respect for others and basic common courtesy. Jason R. Read This Posty »

Over the past three years I've been riding Muni every day to get to work, taking a local bus to muni rail to my office.  I also frequently take other buses and lines to get about the city during the day. Buses are frequently late or missing, many buses are damaged with scratched windows or painted graffiti, and I've filed complaints on the Muni website without receiving any acknowledgment or response.  Buses are either packed during rush hours, or totally empty, riding though neighborhoods with no riders into the late hours of the night. Here's a fresh idea: make Muni an outsourced, Read This Posty »

1. Institute a suit in Federal Court forcing the Board of Supervisors to realign districts on a realistic count of legal residents.  I'm convinced that the current districts are, in many cases, drawn out of proportion to their actual population.  South of Market is a good example.  They have a vote, and so does the huge Sunset District.  Doesn't compute, at least to me. 2. 11 Supervisors are too many for a 7 mile by 7 mile city.  The reason we have so many is because 100 years ago, the county of San Francisco stretched all the way to San Francisquito Read This Posty »

Put me on a committee! Bruce Read This Posty »

Make the city & the city workers follow up on private properties that are cited & do not take care of the graffiti on their buildings or homes. I'm a volunteer for the city's anti-graffiti & I report buildings, complexes to 28-clean & months later the places still have graffiti. Why have this service if no one is making sure these businesses, whatever are actually taking care of their graffiti. PLEASE, get a group that is willing to get rid of this horrid mess on our city. I would appreciate a response from whomever to take this serious problem in Read This Posty »

Have the Muni buses actually pull into their stops.  Even if they just have their end hanging to the lane, it still makes the lane unusable.  Just try driving down Fillmore.  Either that or take the stops away to create more parking spaces. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Pressure the federal and state government to back public psychiatric wards to help deal with the large numbers of mentally disabled homeless who have no where to go and little ability to support themselves. Encourage home ownership (co-ops, low-cost condos,...) Encourage neighborhoods to take an interest in the homeless populations they see and concentrate on helping them rather than on pushing them out. Pressure other cities and states to do the same so that we do not have to shoulder the entire country's homeless burden. DON'T GO THE WAY OF GIULIANI! Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Create city solar power. City installs and owns the panels on residential houses, installs meter in garage next to meter from PG&E, charges a percentage less than going rate from PG&E. Use WIFI to read meters so little manual work. Create revenue stream for city, buy/install in bulk so save on costs of systems, get fed and state incentive money, and reduce green house gas, etc. I'm not a nutcase bay-guardian anti-PG&E type either, just thought this would be a cool way to get more solar installed that is feasible economically for people who can't afford it.  City owned solar Read This Posty »

Here's a suggestion:  find a way to catch the folks who do the "tagging" . . . perhaps with a undercover camera.  When you catch them, they can paint over all of the graffiti in the city, with as many coats as it will take to cover it all.  While they're at it, they can sweep up all of the trash, too.  Start with a month of Saturdays.  If they still can't learn after 4 weeks, keep extending it. Montira Read This Posty »

TENDERLOIN POLICE STATION April 6, 2007   To Captain Jimenez, You should continue to be the good person with a good heart who is not a push over when it comes to enforcing the law, The good person is always the teacher, and know the value of learning comes from the heart to the mind and that the teacher must always be ready to become the student at a moments notice, The people in the community will detect Captain Jimenez good personage and will become attracted to his values as a teacher who knows the value of love in relation to the law of Read This Posty »

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 Read This Posty »

Produce an ongoing weekly TV dramatic series set in San Francisco with entertaining stories, scenarios, and characters as vehicles for dramatizing the City's laws and how they actually work in real situations.  Secondarily, the City's  traditions, history, and culture could be exposited.  Scripts could be solicited from interested SF citizens plus famous directors and actors could be approached to participate voluntarily as public service contributions.  The City could provide the production management  and production facilities.  The fundamental purpose would be to educate not to provide gruesome crime scenes,  police brutality, gore, or gratuitous violence.  Nor would this be intended as Read This Posty »

#1: negotiate with the Unions which represents City workers to get rid of overtime and go to comp time, saving the City millions #2 Already in use in Amsterdam, so it's said, are one-way exit doors from mass transit street vehicles, preventing boarding of unpaid passengers.  Check it out!  Doesn't seem to be a terribly expensive addition to our buses' rear doors...? Maggie Vaughn Read This Posty »

Declare Muni fare free for one year, and simultaneously launch a pledge campaign (ala PBS/KQED/Channel 9) to "Keep Muni Free" beyond the one year trial period.   Most people will pledge at least the  annual Fast Pass cost just to avoid having to carry them.  And Muni would raise more that way than the difference between current fare collections and the cost to collect it. Gene Eplett Read This Posty »

"Please, do not write this off as an insane idea.  I've thought about this for years and want to know more about what would and would not be doable along these lines. People seem to have a huge beef with drug use in a city famous for its Haight-Ashbury flower child atmosphere.  Often, unrelated issues like defecating on streets are mixed up with ""letting the homeless exist"" and many assume they're homeless because they're druggies.  I remember when a loud and vocal group tried to shut down the toilet on Geary and Larkin out of fear that someone COULD use DRUGS Read This Posty »

It would be nice if people bringing their own bags (instead of relying on the plastic or paper bags given upon checkout) when shopping could be rewarded.  Stores could give such customers something like cash credit (like +$0.05/bag) for saving the store on bag supply expenses.  Or perhaps a 2% (or more) discount on purchases would happen if stores could write off in taxes, be subsidized, reimbursed or otherwise repaid by government funds. Such programs could keep merchants from losing profits and gives incentives to stop disposable bag usage. Maya Ramirez Read This Posty »

Keep in mind I say the following as a DOWNTOWN resident and college student who already pays $300/month to park and drive my car downtown.  I don't do this because I _WANT_ to.  I do it because public transit ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH.  The second-densest populated city in the country should have much better public transit.  This requires lots of money.  DRAMATICALLY increase parking fees downtown and charge STEEP tolls for entering the downtown area in a vehicle (higher tolls for larger vehicles, like SUVs and Vans).  This should be expensive... $5+ per car.. more for larger vehicles.  ALL of this Read This Posty »

In the busy tourist season I see them often stuck on hills.  They are too big, they are dangerous for drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists and they are an EYE SORE!  We should want people to come and visit our city - but not in a hermetically sealed box/eye-sore/polluter/noisy/space-taker-upper.  Visitors should visit the city to touch, smell, see, and hear the city... and SPEND money.. explore the neighborhoods instead of just looking at them.  Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Specifically downtown, Tenderloin, Lower Nob Hill, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, North Beach, Richmond, Sunset Castro, Potrero... ALL of these places lack trees.  BAN PALM TREES.  Plant beautiful, green shade-providing trees on our streets.  They really help to make the city more beautiful and liveable.  Also, if this change was done on a MASSIVE scale very quickly, resdidents and visitors would notice the positive change, take pride in our city.  It's also a very visible change.  Something people can SEE working.  Name Withheld Read This Posty »

I moved from Forest Hill Extension (a relatively tranquil part of the city) to the Inner Richmond.  I wanted to be closer to the vitality of local shops and within walking distance to Golden Gate Park. However, I now live along the 44 MUNI bus route.  Although I'm in a single-family dwelling (as many of my neighbors are) the noise and the soot from the frequently running diesel bus is very loud and also spews particulate matter into the air, around my house, along the sidewalk, etc. I know that there is an initiative for MUNI to switch to cleaner-burning diesel buses.  Read This Posty »