Comments on: Congestion Pricing Study Workshop 10/17 http://www.rescuemuni.org/2007/09/19/congestion-pricing-study-workshop-1017/ A transit riders' association for San Francisco Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:47:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Don http://www.rescuemuni.org/2007/09/19/congestion-pricing-study-workshop-1017/#comment-236 Don Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:43:54 +0000 http://www.rescuemuni.org/2007/09/19/congestion-pricing-study-workshop-1017/#comment-236 If the fees will go to improving MUNI then Rescue Muni should support it. If not then Rescue Muni should stay out of the fray. Those yuppies who can afford $10 bottled tap water will pay the fee. If only the rich can afford to drive their cars downtown, automobile traffic will be much classier; no smoky rattle traps and no loud music. Upper class congestion! If the fees will go to improving MUNI then Rescue Muni should support it. If not then Rescue Muni should stay out of the fray.

Those yuppies who can afford $10 bottled tap water will pay the fee. If only the rich can afford to drive their cars downtown, automobile traffic will be much classier; no smoky rattle traps and no loud music. Upper class congestion!

]]> By: ECadvocate http://www.rescuemuni.org/2007/09/19/congestion-pricing-study-workshop-1017/#comment-230 ECadvocate Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:21:07 +0000 http://www.rescuemuni.org/2007/09/19/congestion-pricing-study-workshop-1017/#comment-230 Let's do it. Individual drivers can use BART/MUNI. Consider fee exemptions for delivery trucks that cannot transfer their loads to public transit and you should have a system that will satisfy a lot of people. Of course some 9-5 yuppies will have to be dragged kicking and screaming from their status car as $10 a gallon bottled tap water clutched in their hand spills and splashes this way and that in the tussle, but on the whole, it could be a good compromise. Or do they slap the fee on EVERYBODY, including delivery trucks, in the other cities where this works well? Let’s do it. Individual drivers can use BART/MUNI. Consider fee exemptions for delivery trucks that cannot transfer their loads to public transit and you should have a system that will satisfy a lot of people. Of course some 9-5 yuppies will have to be dragged kicking and screaming from their status car as $10 a gallon bottled tap water clutched in their hand spills and splashes this way and that in the tussle, but on the whole, it could be a good compromise. Or do they slap the fee on EVERYBODY, including delivery trucks, in the other cities where this works well?

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