Posts Tagged ‘meter maid’
Friday, May 10th, 2013
I guess I know why the SFMTA, America’s worst and slowest large transit agency, wants to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to improve its image. So it will then be able to obtain and spend even more of our money, of course.
But I’m mystified as to the thought process behind its marketing.
For example, here’s a happy meter maid saying, ”I am a single mom working to send my child to private school. I am SFMTA.”
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So the San Francisco Unified School District is that bad, huh?
OK fine.
(TRIGGER WARNING, Lookism: And she’s not a model, she’s a Real Person, an actual DPT Parking Control Officer? Latina/a, just a guess. Very attractive/appealing, huh? How did she get selected? Does someone at at the SFMTA’s in-house agency thumb through a bunch of PCO headshots saying, ” …pooch, dog, I-don’t-think-so, oh-now-here-we-go?” Is that how it works, something along those lines? Funny that, SFMTA.)
If I were the SFMTA, I’d take this ad down and never run it again.
If I were the SFMTA…
Actually, if I were the SFMTA, I’d stop lying to people.
I’d say, “The Central Subway is mostly about pork barrel spending.”
If I were the SFMTA…
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Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Check it, naive Oberlin grad Karin Drucker sends out a Valentine to the SFMTA MUNI DPT right here, in corrupt Randy Shaw’s corrupt, government-subsidized Beyond Chron blog.
Ouch.
I might have made a comment on her post, but, you know, corrupt Randy Shaw’s corrupt, government-subsidized Beyond Chron blog doesn’t allow comments, because Randy Shaw doesn’t want to hear what the proletariat has to say. (Isn’t that funny? And isn’t it funny that you can donate money to the highly-political Beyond Chron blog and then deduct that donation from your taxes? How is that right? How is that legal? I don’t know.)
Of course, the average meter maid doesn’t have too much of an incentive to hang out on the 000 block of Turk, right? I mean, that’s the place where the SFPD tells criminals to do their thing, you know, when they loiter about too close to the front of Our Flagship Nordstrom, for example.
Anyway, this unticketing policy of the SFMTA is news to me.
So this means that, finally, the taxpayer-subsidized Beyond Chron has taught me something asides from how great and prescient Randy Shaw is.
Hurray!
Here’s the “unit block” of Turk as I saw it last week, just saying:
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Tags: 2013, beyond chron, beyondchron, blog, Central City, Central City SRO Collaborative, Collaborative, corrupt, crime, dealers, drug, have a nice day, have a nice weekend, Karin Drucker, king market, meter maid, Oberlin, park, parking, pco, police, randy shaw, SFMTA, SFPD, sro, street, tenderloin, turk, twitterloin, uptown
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, cart, citation, DPT, go-4, iii, Inteceptor, Inteceptor III, meter maid, mta, parking, pco, Repurposed, San Francisco, SFMTA, streets, tickets, tricycle, trike, westward industries
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Thursday, July 26th, 2012
I suppose the DPT called the tow trucks out here, where Sutter and Sansome start, because some people accumulated five or more parking citations.
And you can’t put a Denver Boot on a motosickle, I figure.
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Oh well.
Tow them away, boys. MUNI needs its money…
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, citation, cops, DPT, market, meter maid, mta, Muni, officer, police, San Francisco, sansome, SFMTA, SFPD, sutter, tickets, tow, towed, trucks
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
Thusly:
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You know, back in the day, SFGov freely violated the 14th Amendment until it got slapped down.
These days, SFGov violates the 1st Amendment with its Christians Park Free rule. When will SFGov get slapped down on this issue?
I know not. It’ll take a new Yick Wo to file a lawsuit. (Right? ‘Cause just nagging the SFGov isn’t going to cut it. SFGov will just ignore you.)
In the meantime, enjoy San Francisco’s Transit First (Except for Church-Goers) policy.
Tags: 11th Commandment, 1st, 2012, Amendment, bay area, bush, california, cars, catholic, church, churches, double, DPT, First, lawsuit, meter maid, mission, pacific heights, parked, parking, Pastor, police, policy, religion, San Francisco, SFMTA, SFPD, street, tickets, Transit First (Except for Church-Goers)
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Monday, April 16th, 2012
See? The Feds park at meters all the live-long day, but they never pay nothing.
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Oh well.
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, cars, citation, DPT, fed, federal, government, license plate, meter maid, meter maids, meters, mta, parking, pco, pco's, San Francisco, sf park, SFMTA, sfpark, ticket, United States
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
…we wouldn’t have any debt and we’d run surpluses every year.
This is five minutes before two-hour no-parking-time, you know, for street sweeping. Do these streets look like they need a sweeping? Not to me.
But the Spice Must Flow, right? It’s harvest time, once again:
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There’s a chance that the owners of the cars parked here on Octavia might saunter (or run) up for a last-minute rescue, but usually you don’t see that.
It’s too bad that San Francisco government can’t “make money” by having an efficient transit network, you know, the way it “makes money” off of forgetful drivers on unnecessary weekly (or, I’m srsly, daily in some places) street sweeping.
This operation didn’t start out as a scam, back in the day, but it turned into one.*
Oh well.
*In this respect, it’s just like the neighborhood parking decal scheme.
Tags: 2011, bay area, california, cleaning, meter maid, meter maids, mta, neighborhood, park, parking, parking control officer, pco, pco's, San Francisco, SFMTA, street, swereping
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Here’s Fulton betwixt Larkin and Hyde, on the day one productive San Francisco PCO issued 80 citations in a single morning.
That probably paid for three weeks of her salary, benefits and pension.
Who says PCO’s don’t “make money?”
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Transit First, baby!
You cite Cadillacs, Lincolns too/
Mercurys and Subaru
Tags: citation, civic center, farmers market, fulton, meter maid, meter maids, mta, parking, parking control officer, parking control officers, Parking Ticket Bacchanalia, pco, pco's, SFMTA, ticket, tickets
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Monday, March 28th, 2011
DPTWatch.com is here. Use it to report wrongly-issued parking citations issued by the unpopular SFMTA. If you want.
Me, I don’t get parking tickets these days, but you, well, check it out why not?
Ticket/
Got a ticket
Tags: 2011, badge, bay area, california, citation, department, dept., DPT, dpt watch, dptwatch, dptwatch.com, meter maid, meter maids, mta, park, parking, parking control officers, pco, pco's, San Francisco, SFMTA, ticket, unfair
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
The whole ensemble kind of has a cop look, so that’s got to be good when dealing with all those ex-cons out there.
Probably good for the rain, but the blank tickets might get wet tho.
A Cannondale with a suspension fork and disc brakes? Probably be better off without those two features but oh well.
Town and County tires from Continental – I don’t know, they don’t make those like they used to, moved the factory to Indonesia or someplace. Suggest updating Schwalbe Marathon Plus 26. (As the Euros say, “17 000 KM MEME PAS MORT!”)
And Presta valves? Wow, probably causes the PCOs to scratch their heads when they want to top off their tires. Or maybe they’re told not to touch anything on the bike. (Note gear selection – smallest cog up front to match the smallest cog out back. Nicht gut.)
Anyway, the whole point of using bikes is to sneak up on them trucks to start handing out the tickets more better. And in that sense, this is probably a successful program.
Tags: 2011, bay area, bike, california, cannondale, DPT, marathon, market, meter maid, mta, parking control officer, pco, plus, San Francisco, schwalbe, SF, SFMTA, SFPD, street, tires, town and country
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