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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Map, News) - Drivers who opt to illegally park their vehicles in transit-only lanes designated for San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency buses
could soon be caught doing so on camera.
State Senate passed AB 101 Tuesday that, if approved by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, will allow Muni buses to monitor San Francisco roads
from cameras placed on the buses, according to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Parking tickets subsequently could be issued if the cameras reveal a vehicle parked illegally in a transit lane, according to the mayor's office.
Muni buses carry nearly 700,000 passengers each day and can be significantly hindered by vehicles double parked in transit lanes, according
to the mayor's office.
"Double parking significantly impacts on-time performance and delays hundreds, if not thousands, of San Franciscans on public transit city-wide every day," Newsom said in a statement.
— Bay City News
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Examiner Reader said:
I doubt cameras alone will improve MUNI's service. Without a coordinated effort on many levels, including cameras, I'd guess MUNI will continue to limp along.
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Wai Yip Tung said:
I think this is a no-brainer. Double parker delay everyone in a transit corridor for his own convenience. Yet enforcement is almost non-existent! The fact people learned they can do this with impunity make it become an epidemic. Please ticket every single one of them.
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Wai Yip Tung said:
I think this is a no-brainer. Double parker delay everyone in a transit corridor for his own convenience. Yet enforcement is almost non-existent! The fact people learned they can do this with impunity make it become an epidemic. Please ticket every single one of them.
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Seven said:
These cameras will only be used on transit-only lanes. So if your chronically slow/late/missing-in-action bus doesn't run on transit-only lanes, then this bill will do nothing to improve service. Typical. My property taxes subsidize a downtown (Gavin) + Chinatown (Ma) project and do nothing to improve my neighborhood. Hey Gavin, some of us live west of Divisadero! Can you hear us as easily as you take our tax dollars?
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jimsr said:
It's time we get a "pol heads" who can solve the traffic and parking problems and stop insulting us by proposing more fines and more cameras.
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Albert B. Franklin, Redwood City said:
San Francisco has enough cameras to capture the fate of a Mountain View female whose boyfriend was seen with her on Highway 101 in Mountain View, Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, San Mateo, Burlinghame, San Bruno, South San Francisco, Daly City and San Francisco. But wait! The parking garage recorded them leaving together, while he is shown days later stuffing her lifeless body in the trunk of her car, as a friend drove him home? Hey, thanx so much Gavin!
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