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Avenue, stockton avenue, 60 percent of the parking space i see the blue placards and there are lots of misuse. We have to take care of this problem and then i really think that you have a very good idea, those 16 percent of some driver do have a car but they are really low on income. And these parking meter, they eat up 3 per hour and they can afford it and i hope that the state will pass legislation and your local staff people will give a big discount for these seniors. So i think no. 1 our priority is transportation in San Francisco. Parking is holding up our transportation. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Ow, next speaker, please. Richard hale, espinola jackson. Good afternoon, miss hale good afternoon. My name is vera hale and i was all planned to ask you to just remove the recommendation no. 4. I was on the Committee Part of the time, too, and i have a placard and i oppose this ....
Hi, my name is Richard Rothman and thank you for the hearing. First i want to talk about the communication process. I asked in early 2012 to be notified because i heard rumors and i wont mention names, but it was a supervisor in mta said, oh, you will be notified and i found out about it when it was all recommended reading in the San Francisco examiner. So im just concerned about this process. And i dont know anybody except the Committee Members in the Disability Community who actually knew about these meetings that were going on. And i do support the 4 recommendations and im glad the commission is going to talk about the low income, you know, meter parking, but im also concerned about the time limits. I work for the city for 26 years and one of my goals wa ....
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 acce ....
One that had a lot of analyses and testing and contingency plans and vetting and support around it. But it went out without a hitch and were ahead of schedule in terms of the tunneling. It has been going well with no movement of buildings or the tunnel and its great news that its going, as well as it is, the second tunnel Boring Machine has launched and we now have two of them moving north throughout the city. We are stopping construction for the holiday or have stopped construction for the holiday moratorium and the public rightofway on stockton and columbus, et cetera. We will be working in the chinatown corridor to accommodate the Chinese New Year celebration, which somewhat spills out on the stockton street and continuing to work with the merchants and particularly union square, chinatown and north beach as we continue the work of the tunneling and the station contracts ....