Placards from paying at the meters. But the placard is meant to increase Parking Access for us. The payment exemption reduces that because it encourages or allows people to park as long as possible, up until the street needs cleaning, which can be 3 days or a week in some parts of the city. Its also important that this is a disability accommodation. Its not an incomebase the or economic benefit. The payment exemption started years ago because the Parking Technology then was not accessible. You had to be able to grasp coins, lift your hand, put it in a slot, turn a lever, you had to be able to do things that maybe you werent able to do. Now with technology, with smart phones that you can pay by phone with debit cards, with any number of modes and the plan to buy new meters with lowered heads so people can read whats the time frame you are buying, the technology now is accessible. Other cities that went to requiring meter payment found it did help increase turnover. Philadelphia is one o
At to review their best policies, best practice policies, for how they had addressed this problem. Because the reality is that california is not alone in having this problem, San Francisco is not alone in having this problem. Some of the other cities that we researched included chicago, new york, arlington, virginia, houston, philadelphia, arizona, and each of these cities had tried to address this problem in the past and what we learned is that when we looked at the different best practices, when they tried to address the problem with enforcement only, they found that they really couldnt make a substantive change to the problem to increase access to parking for people with disabilities. And in looking at the different best practice policies what we also did was review interviews with Disability Advocates in those cities, people who had experienced the parking environment both before and after policy changes. And what we heard from those advocates was that it is pretty clear that all s
Change our minds. And thats important so that you get a feel of this was a give and take process and it wasnt a slamdunk from the beginning. I want to go on now to this next slide. Here you see, as you saw someone in the video, pictures of cars with blue placards. Thats helpful many times for us but sometimes its also a question of how come we cant still find parking . So we cant find parking, there also isnt enough parking turnover to ensure that we can easily get close to our destination. And then unfortunately and regretablely, there is a Public Perception that people who have a hidden disability dont deserve a placard because they dont look disabled. Thats a stereotype also that works against believing in the program. So we came up with several criteria to determine which group of policies, and we had 20 different suggestions, which would work best for San Francisco. Would it make it easier for people with disabilities to find parking in blue zones . Would the policy make it easier
Violence against its citizens in vietnam as riots spread against the country. Two candidates enter a second round of voting in the afghan president ial elections. The art world turns it asia as it becomes an important player in the multibillion industry. Now, feelings of despair and heart break in turkey turned into anger and led to violence as the county struggles to deal with its deadliest mining disaster. Families of some of the victims started to bury their relatives. 282 miners are confirmed dead, more believed to be buried deep in its coal pit that they were working in. Furthermore, there has been protests across the country following the disaster in soma. Riot place fired tear gas and water canons at demonstrators in ankara, on wednesday. The biggest trade union is threatening to go on strike on thursday over poor safety standard. A lot to talk about. We can talk to anita mcnout in istanbul in a minute. First the latest from Caroline Malone, in soma, outside the mine. More bodie
Interviewing the driver actually isnt enough to confirm that that placard is being used properly. You have to be able to make the connection between the placard holder and the placard. This is timeconsuming and occasionally even dangerous because some drivers are so invested in what they get from holding that placard. Now, for me looking at this recommendation increasing enforcement you heard bob mention that many of us came to the committee with an opinion on this matter and i started out with the opinion that enforcement was really the only solution to the problem. But what i learned over the deliberations of the committee is that while enforcement is a very important part of the solution, in and of itself enforcement over placard misuse cant actually solve the problem. The committee agreed that requesting more enforcement might include increasing the number of parking control officers that enforce placards, increasing stings, conducting outreach regarding placard enforcement and con