The Rev. Amos Brown thinks that Sunday parking meter enforcement is “sexist” because some 60 percent to 70 percent of his congregation is female (“Faithful give S.F. hell over meters,” Wednesday).I suggest he call up an old friend, former Mayor Willie Brown, and ask him for a referral to a pro bono attorney. Disabled people and seniors should be included in the case. Some 15 percent of San Franciscans are disabled, in one form or another.
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Kudos to the San Francisco Unified School District for taking a new, restorative approach to school discipline (“Making misbehavior a teachable moment,” April 10). Providing safe learning environments is just as important as keeping our streets safe.
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Your excellent article on the relationship between high-speed rail and the San Francisco International Airport and the tourism business (“High-speed rail project has hopes soaring at SFO,” Tuesday) highlights an aspect of the high-speed rail discussion that often gets neglected — the role of intrastate air service and its increasing burden on the state’s airports.
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You laud BART for having the courage to face down union demands for salary increases and benefits that it couldn’t afford (“Hard choices and fiscal finesse put BART on track,” Opinion, April 16). Your praise is probably deserved.
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I live a few blocks from Golden Gate Park and started biking four years ago. I ride through Golden Gate Park several times a week using John F. Kennedy Drive to reach different destinations in the park or in the Richmond or Sunset districts.
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In your editorial (“Rare pedestrian deaths exploited by bicycle foes,” April 12), you say ‘enough already’ to the comments regarding deaths and injuries involving bicycles. And you mention shooting deaths and deaths and injuries caused by drivers of cars. But shootings and driver-caused injuries and deaths are regularly reported. Injuries and deaths by bicyclists are not reported as often as they should be.
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In response to your story (“Lee uses quake threat to boost CPMC support,” April 11), San Francisco residents should contact their planning commissioners and district supervisors and urge them to support the proposed agreement between The City and California Pacific Medical Center. This agreement will provide San Francisco with two seismically safe hospitals (CPMC and St. Luke’s) and 1,500 construction jobs, retain 6,000 hospital jobs and contribute $86 million per year in charity care for the poor.
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I can’t believe the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition agreed to the new bike-lane design in Golden Gate Park. Cyclists now ride in a lane between the curb on the right and parked cars on the left. Cyclists, roller-bladers, rental bikers and children are all stuck in the same lane with pedestrians trying to get to and from their cars.
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When I read about the San Carlos City Council considering putting parking meters downtown, I shook my head in disbelief. Do those dimwits realize that our downtown is so vibrant in part because of free parking, however limited?
Instead of wasting $80,000 on consultants, the council members should take a field trip to Redwood City and look at the empty storefronts in their downtown! Some time ago, a Redwood City council member stated that their parking fee system would not work, but they would leave it in place for a year just to make sure.
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It’s way too late in the political day for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to hand out fliers professing concern over pedestrian safety in the wake of the recent death of a pedestrian hit by a bicyclist at the Market and Castro intersection (“Web posts spur outcry after fatal bike collision,” Friday).
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I feel for the church groups and businesses who stand to lose out when the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency implements their proposal to end free Sunday parking meters; however, the SFMTA itself is not to blame for this proposal. As a government agency they need to do what they regard is in their best interest to serve The City’s needs, which includes balancing the Muni budget by increasing parking fees and generating more revenue for The City.
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San Francisco can and should do something smart when replacing Candlestick Park (“It’s lights out for Candlestick,” April 5).
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While anyone can share the underlying wish expressed in your editorial that alleged multiple murderer Binh Thai Luc had been physically removed from the U.S. following his deportation in 2006 (“Slayings a stark reminder to fix deportation laws,” Editorial, March 29), I was left entirely unclear as to which, if any, “immigration rules” the editorial board would like to see changed. The truth remains that Luc was simply “undeportable.”
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The context for Ray Hartz’s comparison of library commissioners to Roman emperors was that Jewelle Gomez had been re-elected president of the commission after she had been found guilty of “official misconduct” by the Ethics Commission (“Taped comment stirs controversy,” Wednesday). That finding was not only for willfully violating someone’s right to public comment, but abusively shouting them down.
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Your recent article (“Offices are outlaws in zoning turf war,” March 12) and last week’s editorial (“Give businesses a break while city fixes land policies,” Editorial, March 16) include serious misinformation about the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan and amnesty program.
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