San Francisco Sunday Parking Meter Enforcement Begins This Week
By Aaron Sankin : huffingtonpost.com – excerpt
Port Authority meters in Mission Bay already operate 7 days a week from 7 AM to 11 PM
How is this coming Sunday in San Francisco different from all other previous Sundays in San Francisco?
January 6 will be the first Sunday in history during which all of the city’s parking meters will be fully operational from noon until 6 p.m., just like they are Monday through Saturday.
Certain parts of the city, such as Fisherman’s Wharf, already charge for parking seven days a week.
While the city’s largest business group, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, supports the move, many local businesses are concerned that activating meters on Sundays could hurt their bottom lines.
“This isn’t going to help small businesses at all,” Jesse Fink, president of the Clement Street Merchants Association and owner of the ice cream and novelty shop Toy Boat, told the San Francisco Examiner. “This is another reason why shoppers will go to big malls like Serramonte instead of business districts.”… (more)
SFMTA Starves Muni, Feeds Developers
Not only is SFMTA trying to rid the city of San Francisco’s liberal middle class car owners by making it too expensive and stressful to park a car in San Francisco, they are starving the Muni system they were meant to sustain and improve. If that is not bad enough, SF’s most glutenous department is installing recorders in the buses that can record conversations on the buses as part of a homeland security program to prevent and/or prosecute crime. BIG BROTHER on steroids. What freedom loving individual wants to own a smart phone, or take a spying bus? They already have cameras installed in Muni stations, (whatever that means) on the lookout for “pre-criminal” behavior. ACLU is involved in some investigations.
If anyone doubts why San Francisco is broke, look no further than the fact that 1 out of 3 public employees make over $100,000 a year, 20% more than the private sector pay, with vastly better benefits and health care. On average, public retirees who have retired and are earning pensions are receiving higher pay than non-government residents who are currently in the workforce.
The government should not be profiting off of citizens. If the city of San Francisco needs money to implement a new project idea, it’s their responsibility to go to the citizens with a proposal to be voted on. Robbing taxpayers to pay the salaries and pensions of city workers is criminal.
The SFpark Program did not create new parking spaces out of thin air. SFpark took the same spaces that were always available and priced them out of reach for low income motorists. Then, the program created a new generation of $100,000 city workers to manage the whole scheme.
Price Gouging, Market Manipulation & Artificially Inflating Consumer Prices. Its clear that the SFpark program is using the ENRON Model for Parking Pricing….How did that work out for you last time California?