Comments on: Valet parking explosion imminent

By: NS

NS — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:23:21 +0000

The problem with valet parking is that it can cause HUGE traffic problems – cars backed up, honking, people getting in/out, cabs not able to get through. There’s a restaurant on my block in North Beach that’s always guilty of this.

Anyone know how to report to the city when restaurants don’t manage their valet parking properly?

By: GG

GG — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:59:34 +0000

How about SF slapping a tax on valet parking that could be earmarked for public transit funds? Everybody wins. BTW, for some thought-provoking long-form reading, I thought this article on L.A.'s opposite (from S.F.) policies (*requiring* new construction to make room for a certain number of parking spaces) was quite interesting: http://www.lamag.com/features/Story.aspx?ID=1568281

By: corn er

corn er — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:38:33 +0000

it means you are a fart bag with ugly farts

By: annoying cat

annoying cat — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:35:08 +0000

33 stops at 12:45 which is a bummer, but 24 run all night from 30th and mission up Divis, MEOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

By: cabs are eeeevil.

cabs are eeeevil. — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:12:33 +0000

Ban cabs. For real. The magnitude of implications is astounding.

By: SFdoggy

SFdoggy — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:07:17 +0000

Well carpooling hardly solves the parking issue.

I don’t think anyone claims that everyone is entitled to free parking. But oddly the City limits parking spaces in new buildings and does not allow pay parking garages to be built in the Mission. Plus it limits cab medallions and can’t get Muni to operate safely and efficiently. The only option that City supports is bikes — which are fine for a small number of people.

A more intelligent system would be to charge people to park, use some of that money to subsidize public tranist and allow more cabs to operate. That would give people options.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:02:59 +0000

Pfff. “Generally unsafe” is one hell of an overstatement. They are almost always completely safe. Obviously the fact that they are *EVER* unsafe is a problem, but to claim that they are usually unsafe is nothing but pure hyperbole and exaggeration.

The Mission is extremely well served by public transportation. Claiming that it is poorly served except for MUNI is like claiming that San Francisco is poorly served by airports except for SFO, Oakland and San Jose.

By: SFdoggy

SFdoggy — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:00:53 +0000

So what’s your point?

By: SFdoggy

SFdoggy — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:59:46 +0000

Sorry — it is just not well connected. I happily use public transport but the MUNI is generally worthless. The fact that the main lines that run along Mission are generally unsafe does not help.

By: rod

rod — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:04:33 +0000

people will start getting bummed out that they can’t find any parking here and they will start considering carpooling/public transit/other forms of getting here. people who live in the neighborhood and rely on street parking are probably the ones in the biggest crunch from this, but i don’t buy into the philosophy that anyone is automatically entitled a free public parking space.

By: rod

rod — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:00:56 +0000

right, it’s not like there are busses that come straight into the mission from pac heights, the marina, and the richmond. oh wait, there are . . . (22 and 33)

By: scum

scum — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:13:08 +0000

You and will take a bus but the average whitey fromthe city burbs wants nothing to do with public transit. I have many friends in the service industry that rufuse to ever ride on transit.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:16:22 +0000

Y’think? I dunno, I ride MUNI when I’m going out in the evening and the buses always seem pretty fully of other people doing so also. I mean, there could be 20 times as many people driving, but it doesn’t seem like it?

By: scum

scum — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:09:41 +0000

How many peole with money ride public transit for a night out on the town? I am thinking less then 5%.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:11:37 +0000

Yeah, Farina is a pretentious crap factory of a hellhole.