Community Members Rail Against Revenue Ideas For MTA As "Just Revenue Generating" And "Disability Biased"
Last weekend's Save Muni Summit, a non-MTA meeting of community members interested in talking about what's wrong with Muni with one another, brought up...
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Greg Dewar said:
March 8, 2010 2:42 PM
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SPUR's plan was at least a start - some alternative to the proposals the MTA had. Not everyone is going to agree on every single detail of every single plan. If people at BC or elsewhere don't like SPUR's plan that's fine - but ranting and tearing it down doesn't do a bit of good for anyone.
Anyone can get the Muni and MTA Budget, and anyone is welcome to draw up a reasonable alternative. I'm curious to see what others will produce.
Wil said:
March 8, 2010 4:27 PM
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Perhaps related, are they getting any results from the increased fines and promised crackdown on placard abuse? This was announced in January: http://is.gd/9ZJMa
Seems like if they were to get rid of all the bogus placards, raising the price on the legitimate ones would be a drop in the bucket compared to the MTA's overall budget deficit.
Alex Zepeda said:
March 9, 2010 12:55 AM
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Oh for fuck's sake. Having a car is a luxury even if you are disabled. Judging by some of the cars with disabled placards, it is quite a nice luxury. Charge more for the placards and/or require the placard holders to pay for the parking spaces. Use the funds to improve paratransit service (or improving ADA compliance on the regular routes).
SPUR's plan is absolutely pie in the sky in that it depends on changes at the state level, and is awfully optimistic about the income from some bits. OTOH, it's a fantastic jumping off point... something that Ford, with his $300,000 salary, should have been able come up with in the first place. If taking one or two items from the SPUR proposal could save the 108 or 37 (or whatever community service line) from cuts, that would be a big win.