SF Parking Crackdown / Ferry Building

[Yo!Joe!!!]

Exactly. That's why I'm posting here. To tell them that they were wrong. The fact that they want to create Detroit effect doesn't make them right. No.., it makes them wrong by definition.
For example., exactly the Ferry Building is trying to make SF better. So., stop bitching or come live in SF .

Hey Enduser. You know your vehicle registration fee is going up $10 (for SF residents only). Right? :|

http://www.sfcta.org/content/view/786/181

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

Hey Enduser. You know your vehicle registration fee is going up $10 (for SF residents only). Right? :|

http://www.sfcta.org/content/view/786/181

Yeah.. that sucks.
I'll move to Oakland instead and pay $6 toll each day, more $$ in gas and spend more time driving. :| Not to mention all the beauty on the streets..

And this relates to this thread , " SF Parking Crackdown " how?
bye

 

[Hooli]

Yeah.. that sucks.
I'll move to Oakland instead and pay $6 toll each day, more $$ in gas and spend more time driving. :| Not to mention all the beauty on the streets.

Ah, ignorance. There are nice places in Oakland, just as there are shitty places in SF. Trust me, I've seen them both, so pick your poison. PROTIP: work in the East Bay.

I'm thinking, from your rabid defense of SF, you must be running for Mayor.

Okay, done here.

 

[Yo!Joe!!!]

Yeah.. that sucks.
I'll move to Oakland instead and pay $6 toll each day, more $$ in gas and spend more time driving. :| Not to mention all the beauty on the streets..

And this relates to this thread , " SF Parking Crackdown " how?
bye

Well. At least in Oakland you'll still be able to get a toy with your Happy Meal... arty

 

[zombi]

$7 or $10 to park at a meter in SF ain't a good rate, it's fuckin highway robbery

 

[ob1ventura]

oh and people that live in skyscrapers in SF -- they are the reason there is parking enforcement around the ferry building..

.............we had parking for the residents under the building. Few living there would want to park on the street where the locals park by ear.

 

[ob1ventura]

I'm thinking, from your rabid defense of SF, you must be running for Mayor.

Nah, more like practicing his cheerleading drill. If the best he can do is argue that Moss Beach is a shit hole due to the traffic on hwy 1 he probably should not give up his day job for the pom poms. Yeh, no traffic in S.F.

 

[killfile]

I'm sad to see that the thread devolved into the typical SF bashing that the majority of BARF loves.
I agree with AbsolutEnduser and am glad to see his posts. I personally rarely chose to waste my time posting up my feelings about SF, and truly wish that more of you would choose to keep your mouths shut about your distain for SF.

I honestly think that most of the places that y'all are from are shitholes, and I hold each distain for your locations, but I choose not to typically post up that option, but I realize it adds nothing to the conversation.

I'm proud to live in SF. My family was here before 1906, and I'm glad that I was able to move back to the city 100 years after they were forced out when the family biz burned down. While many of you feel Kalifornia 'going the wrong way' and SF is leading the way down the drain. I on the other hand, think that California is usually going the 'right way' and that SF is leading the way in a positive direction. i will agree with a few of you on a few points, regarding specific issues that I disagree with in SF politics, but I am typically in support of what is happening here.

You can dismiss my opinion of SF, along with my opinion your location, just as much as I dismiss your opinions of my city, and i dismiss your appreciation for your own location. I'm not going to clutter up any of these threads defending or insulting where people choose to live, I'm just going to give another bump to a PSA about parking at the Ferry Building.
Thanks.

 

[ob1ventura]

I'm sad to see that the thread devolved into the typical SF bashing that the majority of BARF loves.
I agree with AbsolutEnduser and am glad to see his posts. I personally rarely chose to waste my time posting up my feelings about SF, and truly wish that more of you would choose to keep your mouths shut about your distain for SF.

I honestly think that most of the places that y'all are from are shitholes, and I hold each distain for your locations, but I choose not to typically post up that option, but I realize it adds nothing to the conversation.

I'm proud to live in SF. My family was here before 1906, and I'm glad that I was able to move back to the city 100 years after they were forced out when the family biz burned down. While many of you feel Kalifornia 'going the wrong way' and SF is leading the way down the drain. I on the other hand, think that California is usually going the 'right way' and that SF is leading the way in a positive direction. i will agree with a few of you on a few points, regarding specific issues that I disagree with in SF politics, but I am typically in support of what is happening here.

You can dismiss my opinion of SF, along with my opinion your location, just as much as I dismiss your opinions of my city, and i dismiss your appreciation for your own location. I'm not going to clutter up any of these threads defending or insulting where people choose to live, I'm just going to give another bump to a PSA about parking at the Ferry Building.
Thanks.

If you read my post I was clear that IMHO S.F. offers some good stuff and my family moved to S.F. in the very late 1800s. You want to see bashing simply search "harley davidson".

Guess both you and AbsolutEnduser believe I live in a shit hole. Hey, good for you. For me, I would rather live 1/2 a block from seal cove and the fitzgerald marine preserve than across from some dive bar, pick up sand dollars than used condoms from the beach, have sidewalks free of hobo poop, listen to the surf in the early morning than garbage trucks, be able to walk down a sidewalk w/o being hit up for "spare change" every block.........

It ain't what she used to be but looking back on the city from the north end of the GG, off shore, or from Angel Island is frustrating. She is fucking beautiful. It is sad to see what those at the helm are doing to bring her down.

Went up to Seattle recently to look at real estate. Got all amped about Poulsbo and Gig Harbor. My teenage daughter noted the lack of trash along the fwy or graffiti on the overpasses. Great waterways, skiing close by, the Olympics, the San Juans etc all were appealing. However as we were crossing the Bay Bridge to enter the City at 1 am and took in the view we thought of how much we would miss S.F. and how lucky we were to live here. Not bashing but the reality is that the City is becoming much more attractive from the grand stands than it is up close. It's a damn shame.

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

Guess both you and AbsolutEnduser believe I live in a shit hole. Hey, good for you. For me, ...

Hey ob1ventura,
Couldn't resist to comment, eh?
For the second time--please. I didn't even write that Moss Beach is a shithole. Go ahead, re-read my post on page 3. I said "supposedly so f-kin awesome". . Did not even offend your little petty hamlet.

Yes?
You, however,are SO defensive about your non-SF places, that it's funny . and petty..

 

[killfile]

most of the places that y'all are from are shitholes

Guess both you and AbsolutEnduser believe I live in a shit hole.

I wouldn't have included Moss Beach in that 'most', but your defense falls on deaf years because
"opinions were like kittens, I was giving them away" -mm

This is heading for the sink, fast.

 

[ob1ventura]

Hey ob1ventura,
Couldn't resist to comment, eh?
For the second time--please. I didn't even write that Moss Beach is a shithole. Go ahead, re-read my post on page 3. I said "supposedly so f-kin awesome". . Did not even offend your little petty hamlet.

Yes?
You, however,are SO defensive about it, that it's funny . and petty.. (like many suburbanite things- like parking. Don't you dare park in front of someone ELSEs house for long in the suburbs, for example )

Hey Enduser....Couldn't resist to comment, eh?
Oh good, you don't think I live in a shit holearty; just a petty hamlet
I'm defensive

 

[Asphaultnaut]

"less than expected revenues from parking tickets"

that right there shows the evil inherent in the system. On so many levels.

A century or so ago, that would have been enough to start the Revolutn.

PSA: If you are one of the many motorcyclists that park in between the bike racks near the Ferry Plaza (specifically on Saturdays), SFMTA is now ticketing bikes in those locations, as recently as today, 11/6/2010.

I've been parking there for years and years, supporting some of the smaller awesome businesses that sell at the Market, such as Fatted Calf, Andante Cheeses and Dirty Girl Produce. Looks like I won't be able to have the convenience of close proximity parking, due to the fact that SFMTA needs to make their ticket quota. That means I won't be supporting those small businesses, simple so SFMTA can cash in a few $75/85 tickets. The end losers are the businesses at the Farmer's Market.

Watch out, because it looks like they try to stick it to you even more than they have been in the recent past:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/05/state/n065522D35.DTL

(11-05) 06:55 PDT San Francisco, CA (AP) --

Parking scofflaws beware. San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency plans to hand out more tickets over the next few months to make up for less-than-expected revenue from parking citations.

Transit officials tell the San Francisco Examiner parking control officers have fallen short of ticket goals by $7.5 million since July 1, the start of the fiscal year.

So they'll be handing out more tickets to help the transit agency avoid ending the year with a deficit.

The citation shortfall is being attributed in part to parking officers being deployed to control traffic at special events and construction zones instead of monitoring for parking violations.

Transportation agency chief Nathaniel Ford says absenteeism and attrition among parking control officers is also to blame.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/05/state/n065522D35.DTL#ixzz14X2q8elB