Like I didn’t already have enough trouble finding quarters
Parking rates are going up again in San Francisco.
The city is reportedly looking for a “balanced way” to share the burdensome and ever-growing MUNI debt. Sharing those costs with drivers, of course, has to be part of the solution because you couldn’t really raise MUNI rates enough to cover costs without pricing out the people who need it most.
There isn’t really a good solution for the problem - equity between drivers and MUNI riders is probably impossible. I have both a MUNI pass and a car (on a street not protected by a residential permit, but surrounded by J parking streets - ah there’s the rub), so I guess I’ll be paying more anyway you look at it.
Among other proposals - increased gas taxes, which may make more sense for SF’s ever-present enviro undertones (more sense than the shopping bag fees, anyway). But if you raise the cost of driving the car, you shouldn’t really raise the cost of not driving the car.
But the buses have to run - what can you do?
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Maybe if MUNI spent a little more money training its drivers better they wouldn’t have to shell out so much of their budget to pay off all the lawsuits they get for running over so many people constantly! Maybe then they wouldn’t have a budget deficit and have to raise fares again. I can’t tell you how many times I see huge MUNI busses running red lights and speeding!