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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Website highlights financial stress of driving a taxi in the City
I point your temporary attention to a Flash website produced by UC Berkeley j-school grad students Eric Zassenhaus and Amy Jeffries. The video clips thumbnailed along the bottom are accurate and colorful paintings of a typical taxi shift. Well worth … Continue reading
Posted in econ, politics, taxi, transit
Tagged cab, city, commission, county, driver, econ, economics, fee, gate, gillespie, government, heidi, increase, industry, jim, labor, local, machen, macro, micro, oversight, policies, politics, regulation, san francisco, sf, taxi, taxicab, transportation, union, united, utw, worker, yellow, yellow cab
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Dear Transgender Prostitute: Why did you have to take my bag?
Dear Transgender Prostitute I picked you up, you looked legit. Alright, it was a little late, 2 am, and it was in the Tenderloin. Larkin and O’Farrell doesn’t produce the best of customers even during the day. But, I’ve encountered … Continue reading
Posted in happiness, taxi, work
Tagged anger, annoyance, bags, cab, crime, frustration, grand larceny, larceny, larkin, o'farrell, petty, petty theft, police, prostitute, san francisco, sf, sfpd, steal, take, taxi, taxicab, tenderloin, tendernob, theft, transgender, transvestite
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Something Muni does well: Trolleybusses
I am so fond of ragging on San Francisco’s poorly managed Municipal Railway that I often overlook Muni’s remarkable, world-class achievements. (Yes, they really do have some remarkable, world-class achievements.) This post is a first attempt at fixing my glaring … Continue reading
Posted in transit
Tagged bus, busses, california, coal, dam, diesel, electric, electricity, generation, hetch, hetch hetchy, hetchy, mta, muni, municipal, nuclear, o'shaughnessy, power, railway, san francisco, sf, transit, transportation, trolley, trolleybus, trolleybusses
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“Energy independence” is silly. We must use less energy regardless of its source.
My unwavering allegiance to the American Public Media radio program Marketplace was made ever tighter by a clear and compelling opinion piece by Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute. The piece is written so concisely I can do no better … Continue reading
Fire destroys low-income resident’s apartment. Archaic rent control forces her to leave City.
The Chronicle has a touching and well-written article about the aftermath of the Mission District fire that completely destroyed a 30-unit apartment building Monday evening. Central to the article is the story of Griselda Paleo. Ms. Paleo is 59 and … Continue reading
Posted in econ, happiness, politics
Tagged affordable, ceiling, city, control, demand, econ, economics, housing, macro, market, micro, new york, new york city, nyc, policy, price, price ceiling, price control, regulation, rent, rent control, rental, san francisco, sf, subsidies, supply, unit
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Hey, SFMTA, please double residential parking fees and introduce traffic congestion fees.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is a bureaucratic whale, containing, in separate stomachs, the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT) and the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) public transit system. Recently, the SFMTA crunched some numbers and said, … Continue reading
Posted in econ, politics, transit
Tagged bus, busses, congestion, department, dpt, econ, economics, empty, fee, fines, macro, meter, micro, mta, muni, municipal, neighborhood, parking, parking and traffic, permit, pockets, pricing, railway, san francisco, sf, sfmta, shortfall, spot, traffic, train, transit, transportation, user, user fee, variable, variable pricing, yearly
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My taxi earnings: are City tourists back?
I sure noticed when tourists to the City took a vacation from vacationing. Now it appears they might be back in force. Monday I had 3 trips to Pier 33, the most common departing point to catch the ferry to … Continue reading
Driving highlights
I drove 3 shifts in the past 3 days. One of them starts early at 5 am, the other two are graveyard shifts starting at 1 am. Each lasts 11 hours. During my shifts I picked up two young, professional … Continue reading
Posted in taxi, work
Tagged bretagne, britain, british, cab, california, commonwealth, english, francais, France, french, gate, golden, golden gate bridge, indiana, iowa, japan, japanese, midwest, nice, nova, saint-brieuc, san francisco, sf, taxi, taxicab, teacher, teaching, tourist, travel, trip, Visit
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The headline should read, “Mayor signs taxi gate fee increase, lowering pay for City workers.”
Mayor Newsom signed a bill last week that increases gate fees for most cab drivers by $5 (effectively a $.50/hr paycut) and increases the gate fee for Compressed Natural Gas and hybrid cab drivers by $13.50 (effectively a $1.35/hr paycut). … Continue reading
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