Disability Perspective: Parking Reforms for the Disabled (But Without Us ... Again)

by Bob Planthold via Beyond Chron

Thu, Jul 23, 2009 7:26AM

Thursday, July 23, 2009 : A modest proposal: Only people using disabled parking placards can park at legal on-street spaces in San Francisco. That would solve the problem of too few parking spaces for people with disabilities -- AND make the disabled valued customers for those shopkeepers who feel that parking spaces are their stores' arteries to commerce.

Wildly unrealistic? Sure. Contrast that with a real proposal, but in the same vein of far-out fantasy. This past week, another attempt to curb abuse of disabled parking placards surfaced, courtesy of MUNI's mandated Citizens' Advisory Council.

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