-marc

and remember $5 foot long, the dollar menu at McD.

fixing Muni is not about charging on someone else, not parking, not fee, we need a new board. do you know they are trying to get some new buses. we are talking about cutting service, why do we need to buy more bus??

cost of living here in SF is high, SF Gov have to find way to stop any fee or rate hike. And work with the union to have pay cut and work with what they have. I have a 15% pay cut this year. why not the union buses driver?

Fixing MUNI involves charging for parking, higher parking: it will reduce the number of people driving, meaning less traffic, meaning faster buses, it will also making parking easier to find, as there may actually be open spaces.

I agree charging $1/hour for scooter/motorcycle parking is riduculous unless they are charging at least $8/hour for car parking.

driving to SF for a $8 lunch is sure dumb. but if you are living in SF and trying to meet friends for lunch. it sure will be dumber meeting in SF. And I am living in SF myself. if SFgov does not think about how to help business. where will the sales tax coming from? and what will the next budget going to be? So, are we looking for another rate high? If we look at the parking spaces in SF doing the week. there is already a lot of open space.

myself ride a scooter, the city is thinking about charging $1 an hour. for a scooter parking, how green will that be??? if it cost me more to stay in the city. I think I will take my car to another city. don't get me wrong, I support car free city, but fix MTA 1st. Charging more will not fix the problem. making the system work the way it should will. also with this economy and the job market as today. I just don't know what this people is think to ask for more money.

Potrero Hill... one of the highest car ownership rates - I'd guess the highest on the East side. Unfortunately it's also extremely transit-poor ans will be losing its's lifeline, the 53-Southern Heights. Spanks, Soph!

Jeffrey W. Baker - There are no Arby's in Daly City, yet there is one in San Francisco. And Koi Palace beats Ton Kiang any day. Try getting to know Daly City before you disparage it.

If you just need to get downtown to run a simple errand, you can't get back in time without having to pay another $2 because you missed your 90 minute window (and often through delays of their own making).

@David Chiu: I expected this kind of gutless behavior from Dufty and Maxwell, you should know better. For shame.

ps. check out my page at http://publicspacesf.blogspot.org --> It is but a struggling seedling at this point, but maybe if a few more people start reading it and commenting (or submitting their own posts), it will grow into a nice urban plant.

Or I can go to Daly City, still have to pay about 10% tax. but not have to think about all the parking issue.

If MTA is not own by Gov. Will they be out of business long time ago? I guess since MTA will not go out of business. Small business own will.

2. Does anyone know if "reinvesting" funds into parallel lines runs counter to, at minimum, or invalidates the declaration of fiscal emergency made by the agency a few weeks ago, exempt from environmental review--on the basis that they can't afford to run existing service? If so, would the agency be hamstrung from implementing the cuts to service in the first place? It would be better to figure this out now before someone sues and costs the City even more money.

In a world where the conservatives proceed with their agenda apace in this allegedly progressive city, when we managed to eke out 1/8 concessions, we still end up falling further behind.

Why again are fares doubling over six years while riders salaries are falling?

-marc