Posts Tagged ‘pco’
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…
Tags: 2013, ad, bay area, bus, california, campaign, central subway, child, citations, count on us to get you there, i am sfmta, latina, latino, logo, Lookism, marketing, meter maid, mta, Muni, muni death spiral, parking control officer, pco, private, public, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Unified School District, school, sfgov, SFMTA, sfusd, side, slogan, teacher's, tickets, TRIGGER ALERT:, union, wherever you're going, wOMAN
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
I didn’t take these photos, but I’ll tell you, I’ve seen a lot of corruption regarding free parking for SFGov employees in the SoMA area, so I believe them.
Here’s a photo essay with captions from Jim, who went on a walkabout yesterday.
Take a look:
“There are the People who pay up front to park in a lot, $25-$70. There are the people who feed meters but many of those wind up paying $72 to the City long after the last pitch. And there are those who play the system and possibly cheat and pay nothing for parking in a “red zone” with the help from “winking and nodding” SFMTA Parking Control Officers.
All these photos were taken within a 50 foot circle near 2nd & Townsend at 2:15 P.M. on Sunday April 7, 2013 during the Giants/St. Louis Baseball game.
1) Number 1 shows what the average slug must pay for parking for the Giant’s game at 2 in the afternoon, i.e. $70.
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2) Number 2 shows a Handicapped placard vehicle getting free Giants game parking in the “red zone” of the SFFD at Second & Townsend. Handicapped placard holders may not park in “red zones.”
3) What appears to be several private vehicles of S.F. firefighters parked in the “red zone” claiming to be working by their Official Papers on the Dash. Is it mere code for “don’t ticket a fellow City employee?”
4) Several motorcycles getting ticketed (TC27, 219) for expired meters by the PCO who just drove by the “red zones” without seeing cause to stop.
5) Photo of SFFD Headquarters at 9:30 A.M., Sunday April 7, 2013 in case you think a lot of people work there on a Sunday.
Tags: 2 street, 2013, 2nd, baseball, bay area, business, california, card, cars, citation, dash, department, dept., DPT, fire, fire hourse, game, giants, handicapped, increased, maids, market, meter, mta, park, parking, pco, permit, placard, pricing, red, San Francisco, sffd, sfmtra, sfpark, SFPD, soma, south, street, ticket, townsend, transit first, UNI, variable
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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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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Check it – what do you think these rooftop sensors are for?
As seen on Market Street two days afore the big Halloween 2012 San Francisco Giants parade:
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Read and learn:
Hey, SFMTA! Is this your new set of wheels? Oh it is? Well then, what are those attachment things on the roof detecting? Are they detecting a whole bunch of license plates? Well, good for you, SFMTA, good for you.
On McAllister Street during last night’s evening drive:
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OMG, it’s Automatic Number Plate Recognition in the 415! And these things are not just sitting fixed by the ballpark during the World Series, oh no, they’s everywhere.
If only MUNI and the streetcars worked as good as these Blue Crush SkyCop-type contraptions:
Anyway, last I saw, this white Chevrolet Uplander minivan was headed into the Fillmore to catch violators.
Hurray!
“Freaking trash! I wonder how much they owe? Most of them are on the run, not even using their social security numbers. If there was only a way to make them pay…”
All right, Repo Man, that’s enough,
O.K., all the deets. I hope our meter maids have all the features shown here:
License Plate Reader
SkyCop® – Mobile License Plate Recognition & Video Surveillance System Pan & Tilt LPR Unit with Thermal Imaging Camera and High Resolution Day / Night Camera Hideaway Touchscreen Radio System
The SkyCop ® Mobile License Plate Recognition & Video Surveillance System (MLPRV) is a complete License Plate Recognition System packaged in a platform to provide mobile, on the fly, license plate reading, video surveillance and analysis. The most advanced of its kind, the MLPRV system incorporates all of today’s advanced technologies to provide on board storage, and remote access for database updates, data offload, and video records retrieval. This technology allows officers to instantly check license plate information as they drive through their patrol areas. Information such as:
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Improper Registration
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People driving on revoked licenses
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Stolen plates and/or stolen vehicles
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stolen renewal decals
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Outstanding Warrants
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Actual vehicle registration info
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Sex Offenders
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Known Gangsters
All of this information is provided instantly to the officer while they operate their vehicle, without any user action.
Designed for use in Law Enforcement type vehicles the MLPRV system can also be used with SkyCop® Trailer units and other types of vehicles to increase access protection on a temporary basis for special events. All MLPRV systems provide advanced user friendly features such as the dash mount Touch Screen Control / View Panel with “quick touch” keys for preset positioning of the License Plate Reader and Video Cameras.
Complete with full Pan and Tilt capabilities users can position the License Plate Reader Module in any position desired for precision read areas. Five (5) preset positions are available for frequent positioning. In addition to control functions the dash mounted Touch Screen provides real-time read display and live video display information to the user. “Hot List(s)” information can be entered or imported into the on board computer system to provide flag and alert information to the operator for License Plates that have been designated as plates of interest through local and national databases. Other advanced options and features allow for full integration into other SkyCop® products such as Thermal Imaging Cameras and High Resolution Day / Night Cameras that can be mounted on the Pan & Tilt device. The MLPRV System can also monitor and control other citywide deployments of SkyCop Camera systems for advanced monitoring of a scene. Command Center can also display the MLPRV System while in operation.
Technical Information:
The MLPRV is a vehicle-mounted system for license plate image capture and video processing permitting autonomous operation (requiring no direct action of a user) to read license plates and match against various hot list of wanted vehicles.
The Mobile Video Surveillance Platform will record video and audio using H.264 compression and have the ability to
record up to eight (8) analog cameras for on board video and audio storage with remote streaming to a command center. The system will include a 7” In-Dash Touchscreen for control and monitoring. The License Plate Recognition System (LPR) will use dual-camera imaging (high-resolution cameras for license plate reading, secondary cameras for evidence gathering), GPS (with or without) moving map display, back-end evidence and reporting software, and a wireless communication capability for transferring data between the back-end and each mobile unit. The LPR and Video Surveillance system is mounted on a Pan & Tilt drive system and can be installed on the center light bar or other preferred areas. The LPR and Surveillance Cameras can be automatically positioned on all sides of the vehicle while in operation.
Tags: 158 M 214, 15800101, 2011, 2012, bay area, california, Chevrolet, chevy, citation, detector, detectors, dmv, DPT, expired, fillmore, license, license plate, mcallister, minivan, mobile, mta, Muni, parking control officer, pco, plate, readers, registration, SFMTA, SkyCop, street, technology, ticket, uplander, van, western addition, white
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
I don’t know, A&F. One of these days you’re going to go just a little too far.
Strike a pose:
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I should have asked the PCO to give me some jazz hands, but I didn’t think of it at the time.
In other news, Arrested Development is coming back next year. They’re taping new stuff right now down in L.A.
Tags: 2012, Abercrombie and Fitch, ad, bay area, california, DPT, Fifth and Mission, mta, Muni, Nearly, Nearly Nude, never nude, nude, parking control officer, pco, San Francisco, SFMTA
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
I’ve always suspected this, but here’s the proof:
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The SFMTA MUNI DPT citation you see was three days old. That means that the driver either just leaves the ticket on this truck 24-7 or s/he takes it off at night and then puts it back on in the morning.
Of course, most towns in America have spaces for UPS trucks to park.
But not San Francisco…
Tags: $78, 2012, bay area, california, citation, district, double parking, DPT, financial, meter maiod, mta, parking control officer, pco, San Francisco, sfdpt, SFMTA, ticket, truck, united parcel service, UPS
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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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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
It looks just like this:
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Or maybe all this guy does it take Denver boots off of cars,* I can’t tell.
Anyway, you’ll figure out the system shortly after you accumulate five or more unpaid parking tickets in the 415.
It happens.
Please note the brand-new Automatic Number Plate Recognition video cameras on the roof of the white minivan, the better to scan in your license plate, automatic-like.
That’s how they get you
(There ought to be a “Denver Boot Man Alert” app for your phone, you know, for when he comes within a half-mile of your ride, give you a chance to switch license plates or something…)
*Just like Angle Grinder Man, except AGM is on the other side of the law.
The judge said five to ten but I say double that again
I’m not working for the clampdown
No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown
Tags: 158 M 214, 2011, angle grinder man, AngleGrinder Man, bay area, boot, california, Chevrolet, chevy, citation, clamp, denver, detector, detectors, dmv, DPT, expired, fillmore, license, license plate, mcallister, minivan, mobile, mta, Muni, parking control officer, pco, plate, readers, registration, SFMTA, SkyCop, street, technology, ticket, uplander, van, western addition, white, Working for the Clampdown
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Sometimes, you’ll see three cars pulled over at the same time. It’s safe to say, “The Grace Period is Now Over.”
Now, what kind of person ignores the giant signs on inbound Market telling them to Turn Right Only?
The kind of person who has a greater tendency to lack a driver license or insurance or registration or registration hardcopy or registration decal. Oh well.
So, that’s life on the Streets of San Francisco these days.
This tike was not happy, that’s for sure:
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What people tend to say to the SFPD is something like:
Well, how am I supposed to get to the Nordstrom?
The answer, involving the mention of Mission Street or Folsom, well that strikes our visitors as craaaaaazy.
So they conclude, if they hadn’t already, that it’s a hassle to drive about SoMA and Union Square and the FiDi.
Which it is.
And some of them vow to never come back.
Oh well.
Tags: 10th, 6th, 8th, bummer, car free market, car-free, cars, citation, commercial, cops, corvette, department, dept., DPT, financial, forced, grace, inbound, mandatory, market, market street, meter maids, motorcycle, mta, parking control officers, pco, pco's, peroiod, police, right, San Francisco, sfdpt, SFMTA, SFPD, shopper, shoppers, sixth, soma, stores, street, summer, taxis, tenderloin, ticket, tourists, traffic, trucks, union, union square, vehicles
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