CA State Senator Alan Lowenthal Wants You To Pay For Parking, Everywhere
The essential part of the bill is that it goes to the heart of having a car. You need a place to park it. The theory is that if there were fewer parking spaces, you might think longer about taking the bus. (ABCNEWS)
State Senator Lowenthal thinks you have a convenient bus or light rail near you that you will ride if he makes you pay for parking. What a STUPID idea. This is the same logic used when Jerry Brown was Governor to build fewer roads. Rights of way for needed freeways were sold off under the theory that if traffic congestion got bad enough, people would stop driving. An example is the Watt Ave. and Sunrise Ave. corridor in Sacramento County. There would have been a freeway connecting US 50 and I 80 had Adriana Gianturco (Caltrans Director) and Jerry Brown not subscribed to this stupid logic.
Now the congestion is nearly unbearable but the rights of way are too expensive to recover and the roads cannot be built.
This is not New York City where population density favors mass transit and the city was built up around it. It is California. The same California with the highest unemployment, worse schools and highest taxes in the nation.
This kind of thinking got us the California we have, but it also got us the recent election in Massachusetts. Voters have had enough behavior modification. They need jobs.
Great idea Lowenthal, great timing! Here is Senator Lowenthal’s website. Maybe you could tell him what you think, or better yet, next election maybe vote for someone else.
I am sick and tired of these tyrannical leftists who, when not out hugging a tree inhabited by a spotted owl, think nothing of imposing additional fees/taxes to satisfy their arrogant, self-serving goals!
Mr. Lowenthal, we ALREADY pay said fees/taxes for the priviledge. You should concentrate on saving the State, which you’ve now taken to bankruptcy. Shame on you!
DHC
Government just can not get the concept of “spend less”. Spending money buys them votes and therefore they can only embrace the concept of “spend more”. If they were any good at running a business, they would be running a business and not in government. Thus they don’t get the concept of spending limits. As long as they believe they have to always spend more than the last guy, they will always strive to be more and more creative in stealing your money They take it, give it away and act as if they provided it.
Sadly it boils down to loser Americans electing people who will give them things without making them pay ie FREELOADERS. The majority of Americans want to be given everything and they actually believe that they somehow deserve it. Give me healthcare, give me welfare, give me education, give me big settlements if something bad happens, give me, give me, give me…… As long as I don’t have to pay! It’s Ok as long as you steal it from someone else or just borrow from the future so I don’t have to feel the pain that all that giving causes.
Freeloaders and their support of clowns who keep giving the money away are the scourge of our country.
I am in the State Senate District #27 represented by State Senator Alan Lowenthal. I do not believe his ideals are tyrannical and I don’t believe a retired professor from California State University is arrogant or self-serving, he represents me and the communities of Avalon, Long Beach, Signal Hill, Lakewood, Cerritos, Artesia, Bellflower, Downey, South Gate, Lynwood, Paramount, Hawaiian Gardens, Florence-Graham and Willowbrook.
He is doing good work for the people, he cares about the environment because it effects us the people who live in it!
I do not like the fact the air where I live is brown! I do not like taking hours to get home because I left work at rush hour!
You know the direct solution to that? Less cars!
You know that in business when demand is high and supply is low, what do they do? Raise the price!
The logic makes sense, it is just impractical cause most if not all of us need to drive in California and that extra cost just feels like a ripoff.
I myself do not think his bill is the correct solution to the problem, but at least he proposed something. At least he is trying to do something about it. I will support him if he keeps trying, I will support anyone who keeps trying and I wont support anyone who wont try.