Comments on: MeetLocally - A Neighborhood Meeting with Gavin Part 4 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/ Just another actlocallysf.org weblog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:31:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Bruce Wolfe http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-9 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:38:09 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-9 Maybe not far-fetched but very short-sighted when we will need ten times the Internet speed in the next few years. The Mayor's assertion that this Earthlink-Google plan will bring Internet access to "every San Franciscan" is just not true. The tech industry has said that this plan will not conceive the penetration needed to bring access to as little as 30% of households in the city. Already, it is know that it will not do well above the 2nd floor, penetrating brickface and reaching rooms in non-facing street buildings. The Mayor should have been listening to the Supervisors in 2004 when they embarked on citywide broadband to be installed with the sewer improvement project. If he didn't block this important feasibility study then we would have had fiber-to-the-premises plus ultra high-speed WiFi for next to nothing for every San Franciscan. Bruce Wolfe http://public.freemuni.net<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> Maybe not far-fetched but very short-sighted when we will need ten times the Internet speed in the next few years.

The Mayor’s assertion that this Earthlink-Google plan will bring Internet access to “every San Franciscan” is just not true. The tech industry has said that this plan will not conceive the penetration needed to bring access to as little as 30% of households in the city. Already, it is know that it will not do well above the 2nd floor, penetrating brickface and reaching rooms in non-facing street buildings.

The Mayor should have been listening to the Supervisors in 2004 when they embarked on citywide broadband to be installed with the sewer improvement project. If he didn’t block this important feasibility study then we would have had fiber-to-the-premises plus ultra high-speed WiFi for next to nothing for every San Franciscan.

Bruce Wolfe
http://public.freemuni.net

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]]> by: robert sutton http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-8 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:54:49 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-8 The main problem I see with the idea making MUNI free is that it assumes that the amount of people on MUNI is independent of the price. If MUNI's price goes down, then the number of people riding it will go up. Making MUNI totally free could potentially save enough money to cover the demand for MUNI @ $1.50 but there's no way there it cover the costs of providing for the demand for MUNI @ $0.00.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 7</li> </ul> The main problem I see with the idea making MUNI free is that it assumes that the amount of people on MUNI is independent of the price. If MUNI’s price goes down, then the number of people riding it will go up. Making MUNI totally free could potentially save enough money to cover the demand for MUNI @ $1.50 but there’s no way there it cover the costs of providing for the demand for MUNI @ $0.00.
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]]> by: adriana escobar http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-7 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:02:13 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-7 After hearing the Mayor if 18% is being spend and It gets 18% of course there is no gain, but then who pays the 18% if muni will not charge? I also believe that Free things are not so wise not well appreciated by the costumers, my suggestion would be serior citzens 65 on wards do not pay everyone else has the card which has a magnict and you swipe it on the bus,muni or bart.The drivers receive no money etc. Go to Walgreen and buy your card for the month or you can even buy for 3 to six months and you get a discount. Please don't close the tunel for the J on Fridays so early, but more cars for the J. Thank you Adriana<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> After hearing the Mayor if 18% is being spend and It gets 18% of course there is no gain, but then who pays the 18% if muni will not charge?
I also believe that Free things are not so wise not well appreciated by the costumers, my suggestion would be serior citzens 65 on wards do not pay everyone else has the card which has a magnict and you swipe it on the bus,muni or bart.The drivers receive no money etc. Go to Walgreen and buy your card for the month or you can even buy for 3 to six months and you get a discount.
Please don’t close the tunel for the J on Fridays so early, but more cars for the J.
Thank you
Adriana
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]]> by: Duncan Dow http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-6 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:09:40 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-6 BRAVO !!!! This is the beginning of a real solution to reducing auto emissions. Add to this Clean fueled busses and perhaps more underground lines? Thank you Gavin, Duncan Dow<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> BRAVO !!!!

This is the beginning of a real solution to reducing auto emissions.

Add to this Clean fueled busses and perhaps more underground lines?

Thank you Gavin,
Duncan Dow

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]]> by: james buckley http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-5 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:40:17 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/video/2007/03/07/meetlocally-a-neighborhood-meeting-with-gavin-part-4/#comment-5 my congratulations to Mayor Newsom for thinking outside of the box, so to > speak, regarding the solution to SF's decades old problem, MUNI. For his > office to state FREE public transportation is most radical and right : and > the future. > > at least he has unleashed the Idea. so the reality isn't so far fetched > after all. > > thank you > james buckley ><ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> my congratulations to Mayor Newsom for thinking outside of the box,
so to
> speak, regarding the solution to SF’s decades old problem, MUNI. For
his
> office to state FREE public transportation is most radical and right
: and
> the future.
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> at least he has unleashed the Idea. so the reality isn’t so far
fetched
> after all.
>
> thank you
> james buckley
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