Comments on: Spare the Air, we hardly knew ye

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:58:50 +0000

There are two problems with paying people to retire junkers.

Firstly, it’s low-key, personal, local; you can’t wallpaper public-transit stations and buy giant billboards advertising the fact that Jose Martinez of 650 South Bumshack sent his Buick Skylark to the scrapyard. “Spare The Air” is something you can shout from the rooftops, and the proud members of our municipal government can go on TV and show us all that they’re Doing Something About The Problem.

Second, it implies that driving a car is acceptable, and We Just Can’t Be Having With THAT At All.

By: SF Muni Ladies

SF Muni Ladies — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:51:57 +0000

Hi,

We’ve recently entered the blogosphere with a fresh look at transit etiquette: Muni Manners. With ridership up due to the cost of fuel, we offer a fun and relevant service to riders in any metropolitan city, not just the Bay Area.

We are getting great traction and have recently been featured in N Judah Chronicles, Muni Diaries, and the CBS5 Eye on Blogs. We are hoping you can continue to help us spread the word with either a link or a feature. We have many more etiquette rules to cover in our quest for public transportation excellence!

Hope we can connect!

SF Muni Ladies
http://www.munimanners.com

By: Capricious Commuter

Capricious Commuter — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:01:29 +0000

Of course, they’re only benefitting oil companies and producing nations, like Saudi Arabia and Russia.

By: Capricious Commuter

Capricious Commuter — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:00:25 +0000

Mth, thanks. It was a typo. Was off judging a newspaper contest yesterday and didn’t look at the blog yesterday.

David, you’re right, I think. Now we have those tolls on every road, street and highway.

By: murphstahoe

murphstahoe — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:21:14 +0000

70%? Is that a typo?

In tribute to spare the air day I rode my bike all the way from SF to Sunnyvale, in order to avoid possible hassles on the train…but I’m not up for riding all the way back…

By: david vartanoff

david vartanoff — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:24:29 +0000

Spare the air was all carrot no stick. Success not likely. Instead of free which encouraged excursions by less desireables, double tolls with the proceeds distributed to the transit providers would have been more effective.

By: Aaron Priven

Aaron Priven — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:10:31 +0000

It was a good idea that was worth trying. Not all experiments succeed, but we still learn something.