The bill is being pushed by our local State Senator Alan Lowenthal (D- The Beach, The Gardens, Little India, Cerritos), and this week he actually proclaimed that "free parking is bad for the environment." What the heck? Bad for "whose" environment?
It passed the State Senate this week on a vote of 21-12, and it is continuing to wind through the legislative maze in Sacramento.
The Sierra Club is also on board with this lulu of a wanna be law. The Sierra Club believes that there is "too much free parking" makes people drive far too much, and that people need to take public transportation, or to riding or just plain walk to where you need to get.
Lowenthal actually believes that free parking is a "major contributor to traffic jams and pollution."
He hopes his bill will entice cities and businesses to reduce free parking or to get rid of it altogether. “Free parking has significant social, economic and environmental costs,” Lowenthal said in media remarks this past week.
“It increases congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.” WTF?
If the bill is signed into law, it provides financial incentives for cities and counties to stop providing free parking on the street and at government offices and to reduce the amount they require businesses to provide.
Lowenthal and the other Democrats who are pushing this measure need to wake up and understand that we are in a recession. Of course, all Senators and State Assemblyman and all Members of Congress are "exempt" from parking fees due to their specially marked license plates they use on their cars in which we tax payers actually own.
Lowenthal calls free parking a “luxury.” No, Senator, the People already own "the PUBLIC PARKING" and perhaps we need to draft a law that would take away your "free parking" pass once and for all.
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6 comments:
Lowenthal is a nut. Total wacko. Time for him to retire and to turn his taxpayer issued car back in!
Do they really think the voters are buying this crap anymore?
Randy, I'd like to ask for your readers to take a look at my website to see that I'm a citizen candidate, not connected with any of this madness.
Your readers can learn more about me at my sites: http://www.voteforpj.com, http://www.twitter.com/voteforpj, and http://www.facebook.com/voteforpj
"Well, Alan Lowenthal's office is located on Pine Ave/Ocean Blvd. There are lots of great restaurants on Pine Ave, and during lunch, the restaurants would do much better if the parking wasn't $8. Sometimes you can park on the street, if you find a parking meter. So if the plan was to make people pay for parking to dissuade them from using their cars...it worked!! I just keep on driving and shop/dine at a different location."
"Hmmm...they tried this in Ireland. People started going to Northern Ireland to shop. It's not good for business. Next they'll want to charge for breathing because of human CO2 emissions!"
Remember...well if WE don't like it, WE need to make sure he knows about it."
Hey, thanks for the comments, and everyone needs to CHECK out my pal PJ Mellana's campaign for State Assembly here in the 50th Assembly District. PJ is right on the message and right for all of us here in our community. Remember, we need leaders with "common sense" in Sacramento.
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