[Carfreeliving] Re: 2. Fwd: WORLD CARFREE NEWS #19 - April 2005 (Dave Snyder)

[Shannon Dodge]

I know, I know....believe me, my tongue was firmly implanted in my cheek when I floated the idea of getting SF's finest out there whacking cars and SUVs with wet blanket.
 
shannon
P.S.  What Cheryl said. The people who do little bad things are more likely to be the ones to do big bad things. Except for Mike of course. 

Joel Pomerantz <doajig at earthlink.net> wrote:
At 11:39 AM -0700 4/13/05, Shannon Dodge wrote:
>I've wondered what might discourage drivers from using the "bus"
>lanes on Market. Can we get the SFPD on it?

Unlikely. I approached some cops in a cruiser on Market, sitting at a 
light right next to people violating the bus lane. Their reason for 
not enforcing the bus lane was "people gotta get where they're 
going." They can't relate to people on the buses, only to people in 
cars. This also explains why they don't enforce certain other laws, 
and also why transit systems have "obvious" design flaws (the 
designers often aren't transit users and can't relate).

Joel


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