Congestion Pricing Study Workshop 10/17
The SF County Transportation Authority is moving forward with its study of congestion pricing for downtown SF. Similar programs in London, Singapore, Stockholm, and elsewhere, leading to big reductions in auto traffic and double-digit percentage improvements in mass transit speed and reliability.
In SF there will be a public workshop on October 17 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Milton Marks Conference Center in the State of California building, 455 Golden Gate Ave. Come and comment!
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?
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!